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Handbook of emotion, adult development, and aging

Title: Handbook of emotion, adult development, and aging / edited by Carol Magai, Susan H. McFadden.
Publication: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1996.

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xxi, 470 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The field of emotions research has recently seen an unexpected period of growth and expansion, both in traditional psychological literature and in gerontology. The Handbook of Emotion, Adult Development, and Aging provides a broad overview and summary of where this field stands today, specifically with reference to life course issues and aging. Written by a distinguished group of contributing authors, the text is grounded in a life span developmental framework, while advancing a multidimensional view of emotion and its development and incorporating quantitative and qualitative research findings. The book is divided into five parts. Part One discusses five major theoretical perspectives including biological, discrete emotions, ethological, humanistic, and psychosocial. Part Two on affect and cognition discusses the role of emotion in memory, problem solving, and internal perceptions of self and gender. Part Three on emotion and relationships expands on the role of emotion in sibling and parent/child relationships, as well as relationships between friends and romantic partners, and the emotional reaction to interpersonal loss across the life span. Part Four on stress, health, and psychological well-being treats issues of stress and coping, religion, personality, and quality of life. The final part on continuity and change in emotion patterns and personality discusses emotion and emotionality throughout the life span. An ideal reference source for professionals across a wide range of disciplines, the text summarizes recent important developments in this fast growing area of psychology and proposes many new directions for future research. Key Features * Provides a biopsychological view on emotion in adulthood from a life span context * Presents the new perspective on emotion in older adults actively engaged in emotion self-regulation * Describes the intimate connection between emotion and the structure of personality * Demonstrates a new perspective on what emotion is, its importance across the life span, its connections with cognition, its role in interpersonal relation, and the way it influences both stability and change in adulthood Illustrates the interpersonal nature of emotion * Provides theoretically based, leading edge research from international authors * Five areas of coverage include: * Theoretical perspectives * Affect and cognition * Emotion and relationships * Stress, health, and psychological well-being * Continuity and change in emotion patterns and personality Coverage includes: * Five major theoretical perspectives, including biological, discrete emotions, ethological, humanistic, and psychosocial * The role of emotion in memory, problem-solving, and internal perceptions of self and gender * The role of emotion in sibling and parent/child relationships, relationships between friends and romantic partners, and the emotional reaction to interpersonal loss across the lifespan * Issues of stress and coping, religion, personality, and quality of life * Emotion and emotionality throughout the lifespan.

Alternative Title

Emotion, adult development, and aging

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handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Theoretical perspectives. Emotions and the aging brain : regrets and remedies / Jaak Panksepp and Anesa Miller -- Differential emotions theory and emotional development in adulthood and later life / Linda M. Dougherty, Jo Ann Abe, and Carroll E. Izard -- Ethological perspectives on human development and aging / Klaus E. Grossman -- A humanistic and human science approach to emotion / Constance T. Fischer -- Psychosocial perspectives on emotions : the role of identity in the aging process / Susan Krauss Whitbourne.
II. Affect and cognition. Emotion, thought, and gender / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- Emotion and cognition in attachment / Victor G. Cicirelli -- Emotion and memory / Kenneth T. Strongman -- Emotion and everyday problem solving in adult development / Fredda Blanchard-Fields -- Emotions in the construction of autobiography / Jan-Erik Ruth and Anni Vilkko.
III. Emotion and relationships. Connections between parents and their adult children / Lillian E. Troll and Karen L. Fingerman -- Affect and sibling relationships in adulthood / Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford and Paula Smith Avioli -- Affect in intimate relationships : the development course of marriage / Laura L. Carstensen [and others] -- The understanding of friendship : an adult life course perspective / Brian de Vries -- Emotional reactions to interpersonal losses over the life span : an attachment theoretical perspective / Mario Mikulincer and Victor Florian.
IV. Stress, health, and psychological well-being. The role of coping in the emotions and how coping changes over the life span / Richard S. Lazarus -- Emotion, personality, and health / Joan S. Tucker and Howard S. Friedman -- Quality of life and affect in later life / M. Powell Lawton -- Religion, emotions, and health / Susan H. McFadden and Jeffrey S. Levin.
V. Continuity and change in emotion patterns and personality. Mood and personality in adulthood / Paul T. Costa, Jr. and Robert R. McCrae -- Facial expressions of emotion and personality / Dacher Keltner -- Personality change in adulthood : dynamic systems, emotions, and the transformed self / Carol Magai and Barbara Nusbaum -- Emotional episodes and emotionality through the life span / Jennifer M. Jenkins and Keith Oatley -- The story of your life : a process perspective on narrative and emotion in adult development / Jefferson A. Singer.

ISBN

0124649955
9780124649958

LCCN

96022522

OCLC

ocm34753064
34753064
SCSB-2098418

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library