Open AccessTime may heal wounds: Aging and life regrets.
Author(s) -
Dan Tassone,
Andrew E. Reed,
Laura L. Carstensen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
psychology and aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.468
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1939-1498
pISSN - 0882-7974
DOI - 10.1037/pag0000381
Subject(s) - regret , psycinfo , psychology , affect (linguistics) , adult development , preference , developmental psychology , young adult , social psychology , clinical psychology , medline , communication , machine learning , computer science , political science , law , economics , microeconomics
Psychological research on regret has focused mostly on the negative emotions associated with troubling past decisions. Because aging is associated with a preference for positive information in attention and memory, investigation into positive emotions elicited by regrets may provide insights into adult developmental changes in subjective experience. The present study investigated age differences in regret-related affect in a survey of adults (n = 629) aged 18-92 years. Positive and negative affect emerged as discrete dimensions of regret-related affect with age trajectories that benefit well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).