{"title":"[Emotional experience and emotion regulation - How older patients with mental illness differ from healthy older and younger patients].","authors":"Meinolf Peters","doi":"10.1055/a-2562-8528","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotional experience and emotion regulation are one of the focal points of gerontological research. However, the clinical significance of these issues in older people has been little investigated.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In the present study, a clinical group of elderly patients (>60 years of age) was assessed with the Emotion Experience and Regulation (EER) questionnaire and compared with a middle-aged clinical sample (40-60 years) and a healthy sample of older subjects (>60 years).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results confirm that clinically conspicuous older people hardly differ from younger patients in passive-negative emotions, but do differ in active-negative emotions, which are similarly low in older patients as in healthy older people. Older patients are less successful at maximising positive emotions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In therapy, a special focus should be placed on reducing passive-negative and generating positive emotions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47315,"journal":{"name":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","volume":" ","pages":"247-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2562-8528","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/4/25 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Emotional experience and emotion regulation are one of the focal points of gerontological research. However, the clinical significance of these issues in older people has been little investigated.
Methods: In the present study, a clinical group of elderly patients (>60 years of age) was assessed with the Emotion Experience and Regulation (EER) questionnaire and compared with a middle-aged clinical sample (40-60 years) and a healthy sample of older subjects (>60 years).
Results: The results confirm that clinically conspicuous older people hardly differ from younger patients in passive-negative emotions, but do differ in active-negative emotions, which are similarly low in older patients as in healthy older people. Older patients are less successful at maximising positive emotions.
Conclusion: In therapy, a special focus should be placed on reducing passive-negative and generating positive emotions.