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Kennedy, Meghan Quinn.

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Aging, emotion, and reconstruction of long-term autobiographical memory: Testing a motivational hypothesis.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Aging, emotion, and reconstruction of long-term autobiographical memory: Testing a motivational hypothesis./
作者:	Kennedy, Meghan Quinn.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2002,
面頁冊數:	131 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International64-10B.
標題:	Personality. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3067880
ISBN:	9780493875002

Aging, emotion, and reconstruction of long-term autobiographical memory: Testing a motivational hypothesis.
Kennedy, Meghan Quinn.

Aging, emotion, and reconstruction of long-term autobiographical memory: Testing a motivational hypothesis. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2002 - 131 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2002.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Despite numerous and significant losses associated with old age, older adults experience better emotional well-being than younger adults. Socioemotional selectivity theory explains these findings in terms of motivation. Because people cognitively appreciate the finite nature of life and monitor their own progression through the life span, the goals they pursue at different points in life reflect their perceptions of time left in life. Perception of time left in life influences the relative importance of achieving certain types of goals. As people age and perceive time as increasingly limited, they place greater importance on emotionally meaningful goals, which can be achieved within a limited period of time. Consequently, they focus more on the emotional aspects of their lives, and in doing so, regulate their emotions well. The purpose of this dissertation is to extend this line of research to autobiographical memory. Longitudinal studies of long-term autobiographical memory indicate that older adults are more likely than younger adults to recall their past more positively than originally reported. Based on a review of the relevant theoretical and empirical work on emotional experience, aging, and autobiographical memory, I propose a motivational explanation for the observed age-related positive memory bias found in the autobiographical memory studies. I argue that older adults are more motivated than younger adults to recall distant personal experiences in an emotionally satisfying way, resulting in memory biases that serve emotion regulation. In a program of research, I first replicate the age-related positive memory bias in studies examining age differences in memory for recent and distant personal experiences. I then find empirical support for a motivational explanation for this bias in a study of long-term autobiographical memory.

ISBN: 9780493875002Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Personality.

Aging, emotion, and reconstruction of long-term autobiographical memory: Testing a motivational hypothesis.
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