Anxieties about aging and death and psychological distress: The protective role of emotional complexity |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel;2. School of Education and The Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel;3. The Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel;1. Faculty of Social Work, Ashkelon Academic College, 12 Ben-Tzvi St, Ashkelon 78211, Israel;2. Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel;3. Department of Music, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel;1. Department of Community Health Nursing, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan;2. School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;3. Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Saitama Prefectural University, Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Death and aging anxieties are related to higher psychological distress, but no study has examined whether these relationships are moderated by emotional complexity, an important indicator of adaptive emotional regulation among older adults. Participants (N = 188; mean age = 57; range = 29–100) rated their death and aging anxieties, general psychological distress, and reported their emotions on a daily basis over 14 days. Results showed that emotional complexity moderated the relationship between each of the two anxieties and psychological distress (i.e., the positive relationship between the two anxieties and psychological distress existed only among subjects with low emotional complexity). The findings suggest that emotional complexity buffers against psychological distress, and can be further explored as a facilitating mechanism in protecting against the negative mental health effects of aging and death anxieties. |
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| Keywords: | Aging Aging anxiety Death Death anxiety Emotional complexity Psychological distress |
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