cad a22 4500 316949671 20181103043304.0 cr unu---uuuuu 140620s2014 xx s 000 0 eng 10.5167/uzh-96626 doi 10.1037/a0036979 doi (ZORA)oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:96626 150 ddc Nikitin Jana The Role of Age and Motivation for the Experience of Social Acceptance and Rejection [Elektronische Daten] [Jana Nikitin, Simone Schoch, Alexandra M Freund] openAccess eu-repo A study with n = 55 younger (18-33 years, M = 23.67) and n = 58 older (61-85 years, M = 71.44) adults investigated age-related differences in social approach and avoidance motivation and their consequences for the experience of social interactions. Results confirmed the hypothesis that a predominant habitual approach motivation in younger adults shifts toward a stronger avoidance motivation in older adults. Moreover, age and momentary motivation predicted the experience of an actual social interaction. Younger adults reported stronger negative emotions in a rejection situation when striving to approach acceptance rather than avoid rejection. Conversely, older adults reported fewer positive emotions in a rejection situation when they attempted to avoid rejection rather than approach acceptance. Taken together, the present study demonstrates that the same motivation has different consequences for the experience of potentially threatening social situations in younger and older adults. People seem to react emotionally when the achievement of important developmental goals (approaching others in young adulthood, avoiding negative social interactions in older adulthood) is thwarted. Moreover, results suggest that approach and avoidance motivation play an important role for socioemotional development. Institute of Psychology zora Dynamics of Healthy Aging zora Schoch Simone joint author Freund Alexandra M. joint author Developmental Psychology 50(7):1943-1950 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/96626/1/Nikitin_Schoch_Freund_DP_2014.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository 1 Journal Article PeerReviewed zora ZORA 856 40 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/96626/1/Nikitin_Schoch_Freund_DP_2014.pdf text/html WWW-Backlink auf das Repository ZORA 100 1- Nikitin Jana ZORA 700 1- Schoch Simone joint author ZORA 700 1- Freund Alexandra M. joint author ZORA 773 0- Developmental Psychology 50(7):1943-1950 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 ZORA ZORA ZORA Journal Article openAccess