caa a22 4500 606191038 CHVBK 20210128105228.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00391-015-0935-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00391-015-0935-7 Psychological vulnerability to daily stressors in old age [Elektronische Daten] Results of short-term longitudinal studies [Oliver Karl Schilling, Manfred Diehl] Psychische Vulnerabilität gegenüber alltäglichen Stressoren im Alter Ergebnisse kurzer Längsschnittstudien A growing numbers of intensive longitudinal studies examine the short-term variability of behavior in response to daily stressors. Collectively, these studies address the vulnerability for stress-related emotional burden as assessed in terms of the intraindividual association between daily stressors and negative affect (NA). This article provides a brief overview of the relevant research on so-called affective reactivity to daily stressors and focuses on findings on development of age-related stressor reactivity across the adult lifespan. Two theoretical propositions have been put forward. Firstly, it has been postulated that aging should be associated with increased affective reactivity, i.e. it has been assumed that the vulnerability in terms of physiological stress reactivity increases across the adult life span and, thus, a higher stress-induced emotional reactivity should result with increasing age. Secondly, it has been argued that due to the continued development of emotional self-regulation skills, there should be an age-related decrease in stress reactivity and, hence, an increased resilience. Findings on age differences in NA reactivity to daily stressors, however, have been inconsistent. A possible explanation for the inconsistent findings may lie in the fact that the postulated dynamics of increased vulnerability or resilience imply different time-related reactions to stressors. In particular, the activation and effectiveness of emotional self-regulation strategies increase with increasing time intervals from the stressors. This leads to the conclusion that with increasing age the resilience for longer periods of stress and accumulated stress should increase. Results from our own research support this hypothesis, where older adults reacted to multiple stressors in a more adaptive way than younger adults. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Psychological resilience nationallicence Diary studies nationallicence Aged nationallicence Stressor reactivity nationallicence Negative affect nationallicence Psychische Resilienz nationallicence Tagebuchstudien nationallicence Ältere nationallicence Stressreaktivität nationallicence Negativer Affekt nationallicence Schilling Oliver Karl Abteilung für Psychologische Alternsforschung, Psychologisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut Diehl Manfred Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA aut Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie Springer Berlin Heidelberg 48/6(2015-08-01), 517-523 0948-6704 48:6<517 2015 48 391 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-015-0935-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00391-015-0935-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schilling Oliver Karl Abteilung für Psychologische Alternsforschung, Psychologisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Bergheimer Str. 20, 69115, Heidelberg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Diehl Manfred Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie Springer Berlin Heidelberg 48/6(2015-08-01), 517-523 0948-6704 48:6<517 2015 48 391 SWISSBIB 342457594