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17 - Changes in Social and Emotional Well-Being over the Lifespan

from Part III - Aging in a Socioemotional Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

By
Anne C. Krendl
Edited by
Ayanna K. Thomas  and
Angela Gutchess
Ayanna K. Thomas
Affiliation:
Tufts University, Massachusetts
Angela Gutchess
Affiliation:
Brandeis University, Massachusetts
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Summary

Although preserving social relationships plays a critical role in successful aging, a large body of work has shown that the size of older adults’ social networks declines with age. This decline could reflect older adults’ increased desire to preserve their emotional well-being (having greater positive than negative affect). However, because emotional well-being is associated with longer lifespans whereas having smaller social networks is not, other factors may contribute to older adults’ declining network. This chapter reviews one such possibility: age-related declines in social cognition. Core social cognitive functions that play an integral role in developing and maintaining social relationships – understanding the mental states of others, emotion recognition, inhibiting socially inappropriate responses, and prejudice reduction – are impaired in aging populations. This chapter reviews each of these, and considers how they might influence older adults’ ability to develop and maintain high-quality social networks.

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social networksprejudicesocial cognition and agingtheory of mindemotion recognitionself-referential memory enhancementfirst impression accuracyself-regulation
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The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
A Life Course Perspective
 , pp. 315 - 331
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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