Cross-sectional age differences in fading affect bias: A latent change score model approach.

IF 3.5 1区 心理学 Q1 GERONTOLOGY
Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-15 DOI:10.1037/pag0000900
Sophie Hoehne, Daniel Zimprich
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The fading affect bias (FAB) names the phenomenon that the affect intensity of negative autobiographical memories (AMs) fades more rapidly and to a greater extent from event occurrence to recall than the affect intensity of positive AMs. The goal of the present study was to examine whether and how the magnitude of the FAB varies with participant age, and whether these potential age effects could be explained by differences in the time elapsed since the events or their initial affect intensity. Analyses were based on 2,062 adults (aged 18-96 years; 60.67% women; 75.46% with a university entrance diploma; 95.68% with German as their mother tongue), who reported AMs of three positive and three negative events in a free recall procedure. Participants rated the affect intensity of each AM retrospectively from the perspective of event occurrence and from the momentary perspective of event recall. Latent change score models were used to operationalize and predict latent changes in AMs' positive and negative affect intensity as well as a latent overall FAB score. The magnitude of the FAB showed a U-shaped function across age, with a low point at age 40 and a maximum at the oldest age of the sample. After including the time since event and initial affect intensity, the FAB increased even more at older ages. The present findings, which extend previous research on age differences in the FAB, largely support predictions derived from the socioemotional selectivity theory and the strength and vulnerability integration model. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

消退影响偏差的横断面年龄差异:一种潜在变化评分模型方法。
消退情感偏差(FAB)是指负面自传体记忆的情感强度比正面自传体记忆的情感强度从事件发生到回忆的消退速度更快、程度更大的现象。本研究的目的是检查FAB的大小是否以及如何随参与者的年龄而变化,以及这些潜在的年龄影响是否可以通过事件发生后的时间差异或其初始影响强度来解释。分析基于2062名成年人(18-96岁;60.67%的女性;75.46%具有大学入学文凭;95.68%,以德语为母语),在自由回忆程序中报告了3个阳性和3个阴性事件的AMs。参与者从事件发生的角度和从事件回忆的瞬间角度对每个AM的情感强度进行回顾性评分。使用潜在变化评分模型来操作和预测AMs的积极和消极影响强度的潜在变化以及潜在的总FAB评分。FAB的大小在年龄上呈u形函数,在40岁时达到最低点,在年龄最大的时候达到最大值。在考虑了事件发生后的时间和最初的影响强度后,FAB在年龄较大时增加得更多。目前的研究结果扩展了先前对FAB年龄差异的研究,在很大程度上支持了社会情绪选择理论和强弱整合模型的预测。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA,版权所有)。
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6.40
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10.80%
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期刊介绍: Psychology and Aging publishes original articles on adult development and aging. Such original articles include reports of research that may be applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental (laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological, or psychosocial. Although the emphasis is on original research investigations, occasional theoretical analyses of research issues, practical clinical problems, or policy may appear, as well as critical reviews of a content area in adult development and aging. Clinical case studies that have theoretical significance are also appropriate. Brief reports are acceptable with the author"s agreement not to submit a full report to another journal.
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