Research On The Influence Of Elderly Daily Emotional Experience And Emotional Ability On Subjective Well-being

Aging of population is a worldwide social problem.China is the country with the largest population in the world,and the problem above is serious.Facing the aging of population,the goverment and academic circles pay more attention to the happiness of the aged.As the previous researches' discovery,the aged's physical fitness and basic mental function decline with age,like cognition,attention,and memory capacity.With the body aging,the aged are more likely to suffer disease,mental stress and social loss.In this context,lots of researches find that individual emotional well-being is better with aging,from middle age to old age.The aged fell happier than middle-aged people.The decline of the aged's cognition and physical fitness and high-level of their emotion and happiness form a contradiction,and this contradiction is the paradox of aging.Do the positive effect in the global evalution of the aged lead to the paradox of aging?Are the aged more positive than teenage in daily emotional experience?If the aged always suffer disease,decline in memory and physical fitness,as well as the loss of social relationship.How can they mentain high-level of subjective well-being?Which factor protect the aged in aging process?This research starts at the basis of questions above,and provide intervention task improving the aged'ssubjective well-being and its factor.The first research choose 232 old people and 111 young people as object of study.lt requires the subject to finish the Satisfaction with life scale(SWLS),the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule(PANAS),the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale(UCLA)and the Profile of Emotional Competence(PEC),they also need to take part in a 14-days' experience-sampling method(ESM).The data collected are studied from two aspects.On the one hand,verify the improvement of the aged's subject well-being.It means proving the paradox of aging existing in daily emotional experience or not.On the other hand,find the important factor playing a prtective role in the aged's subjective well-being through the research on the influncing factor of the aged's subjective well-being and its difference between old people and young people.The second research choose 52 old people as subject and divide them into control group and intervention group.Present task about affect label based on daily events.The task aims to enhance the aged's emotional competence about self-emotion appraisal as well as others'emotion appraisal,and then improve the aged's subjective well-being.Three conclusions are summarized through the result of research.First,the aged's subjective well-being and daily emotion experience are more positive than young people.And the paradox of aging exists in daily emotion experience.Second,the aged's higher Self-emotion appraisal and Others' emotion appraisal,lower emotional granularity of Negative Affect and emotional instability of Negative Affect compared with young people are able to play a protective role in old people in aging process.Third,affect label based on daily event is supposed to enhance the aged'semotional competence about self-emotion appraisal and Others' emotion appraisal.At the same time,it can restrain emotion intensity of Negative Affect in daily life,decline mixed emotions.emotional instability of Negative Affect,and enhance Affect balance.Emotional granularity of Positive Affect.Emotional instability of Positive Affect,and at last improve the aged's subject well-being.