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The Effects of Emotion Expressivity and Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness on the Subjective Well-Being in Later Life

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2010, v.24 no.1, pp.95-109
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.1.007

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of emotion expressivity and ambivalence over emotion expressiveness on the subjective well-being in later life. 214 older adults(m=72.83, sd=5.55) were participated in this study. Emotional expressivity, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, and subjective well-being were measured and analyzed. In results, there was no gender difference in emotional expressivity. However, old women experience more ambivalence over emotional expressiveness than old men. The hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that economic status, positive expressivity, and negative expressivity significantly predict old men's subjective well-being and positive expressivity and ambivalence over emotional expressivity significantly predict old women's subjective well-being. The important meanings of emotional expressivity and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness over quality of elderly's emotional life were discussed.

keywords
정서 표현, 정서 표현에 대한 양가성, 정서 경험, 노화, 주관적 안녕감, 성차, emotional expressivity, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, aging, SWB(subjective well-being), gender differences

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