Age, affect, and social closeness: An experience sampling study of advice-taking across the adult lifespan.

IF 3.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Emotion Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI:10.1037/emo0001566

Tarren Leon, Gabrielle Weidemann, Ian I Kneebone, Phoebe E Bailey

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Little is known about the degree to which older adults rely on advice in their everyday decision-making, as well as predictors and outcomes of their advice-taking. The present study aimed to examine whether social closeness and momentary affect predict advice-taking across the adult lifespan using an experience sampling method in everyday life. Decision satisfaction with or without advice-taking was also examined. Participants (N = 117) were predominately Western, European aged 21-76 years. They reported on their advice-taking 3 times a day for 10 days. Data collected over 2023-2024 revealed that degree of social closeness did not influence the association between age and advice-taking. However, when affect was more positive, older age was associated with greater advice-taking. These findings suggest that affective state but not relationship goals and closeness to an advisor predict greater advice-taking with older age. In addition, greater advice-taking and more positive affect are associated with greater decision satisfaction, regardless of age. Overall, the current findings indicate that in their everyday decision-making, older adults are more likely to take advice when they are in a positive mood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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年龄、情感和社会亲密度：一项关于成年人一生中接受建议的经验抽样研究。

对于老年人在日常决策中对建议的依赖程度，以及他们接受建议的预测因素和结果，人们知之甚少。本研究旨在通过日常生活中的经验抽样方法，检验社会亲密度和瞬间影响是否能预测成年人一生中的建议采纳。对是否采纳建议的决策满意度也进行了调查。参与者（N = 117）主要是21-76岁的西欧人。他们报告了他们的建议，每天服用3次，持续10天。2023-2024年间收集的数据显示，社会亲密程度并不影响年龄与接受建议之间的关系。然而，当影响更积极时，年龄越大，接受建议的越多。这些发现表明，随着年龄的增长，情感状态而不是关系目标和与顾问的亲密程度可以预测更多的建议。此外，无论年龄大小，更多的建议和更积极的影响与更高的决策满意度相关。总的来说，目前的研究结果表明，在日常决策中，老年人在心情积极时更有可能接受建议。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Emotion PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

7.10%

发文量

325

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： Emotion publishes significant contributions to the study of emotion from a wide range of theoretical traditions and research domains. The journal includes articles that advance knowledge and theory about all aspects of emotional processes, including reports of substantial empirical studies, scholarly reviews, and major theoretical articles. Submissions from all domains of emotion research are encouraged, including studies focusing on cultural, social, temperament and personality, cognitive, developmental, health, or biological variables that affect or are affected by emotional functioning. Both laboratory and field studies are appropriate for the journal, as are neuroimaging studies of emotional processes.