Choosing to be happy? Age differences in “maximizing” decision strategies and experienced emotional well-being.

Bruin, Wändi Bruine de; Parker, Andrew M.; Strough, JoNell

doi:10.1037/pag0000073

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“…La edad se relacionó de forma significativa y positiva con el bienestar psicológico general, y con las dimensiones de relaciones positivas con los otros, autonomía, dominio del entorno y propósito en la vida. Esto puede relacionarse con resultados de otros estudios que han sugerido que, en la medida en que se avanza en el ciclo vital, existiría una mayor estabilidad emocional y bienestar (Bruine de Bruin, Parker, & Strough, 2016;Carstensen et al, 2011;Charles & Pasupathi, 2003;González-Villalobos & Marrero, 2017;Röcke, Li, & Smith, 2009;Vera-Villarroel, Urzúa M., Silva, Pavez, & Celis-Atenas, 2013).…”

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Discriminación, aculturación y bienestar psicológico en inmigrantes latinoamericanos en Chile

2020

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La literatura acerca del bienestar psicológico de los inmigrantes ha identificado la discriminación percibida como una fuente importante de estrés que puede mermar su ajuste psicológico en el país de recepción. Asimismo, existe evidencia respecto del impacto de la aculturación en el funcionamiento psicológico positivo de esta población. Este trabajo indaga en las relaciones entre la discriminación, las orientaciones de aculturación y el bienestar psicológico de 152 inmigrantes latinoamericanos que residen en Chile. Los resultados mostraron que el 21,1% de la varianza del bienestar psicológico fue explicado por la edad, la discriminación, y las orientaciones aculturativas de integración e individualismo. Se discute acerca de la importancia del individualismo como orientación de aculturación que ha sido escasamente estudiada en inmigrantes, y cuyos posibles efectos negativos en el bienestar se asociarían con la creencia en la meritocracia, en detrimento de la búsqueda de soporte social en el proceso de adaptación al nuevo contexto.

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Discriminación, aculturación y bienestar psicológico en inmigrantes latinoamericanos en Chile

2020

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“…Younger adults de-escalated commitment when it was clear that this would allow them to escape negative emotions (Wong, Yik, & Kwong, 2006). When possible, older adults disengaged from tasks or situations that could elicit negative arousal (Bruine de Bruin et al, 2015, 2016; Charles, Piazza, Luong, & Almeida, 2009), which is an emotion regulation strategy referred to as “situation selection” (Gross & John, 2003; Urry & Gross, 2010). If older adults are more motivated to avoid negative affective states (see Carstensen, 2006), then this could help explain why their decisions about project completion have been found to show less sunk-cost bias.…”

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What were they thinking? Reducing sunk-cost bias in a life-span sample.

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Psychology and Aging

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We tested interventions to reduce “sunk-cost bias,” the tendency to continue investing in failing plans even when those plans have soured and are no longer rewarding. We showed members of a national U.S. life-span panel a hypothetical scenario about a failing plan that was halfway complete. Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention to focus on how to improve the situation, an intervention to focus on thoughts and feelings, or a no-intervention control group. First, we found that the thoughts and feelings intervention reduced sunk-cost bias in decisions about project completion, as compared to the improvement intervention and the no-intervention control. Second, older age was associated with greater willingness to cancel the failing plan across all three groups. Third, we found that introspection processes helped to explain the effectiveness of the interventions. Specifically, the larger reduction in sunk-cost bias as observed in the thoughts and feelings intervention (vs. the improvement intervention) was associated with suppression of future-oriented thoughts of eventual success, and with suppression of augmentations of the scenario that could make it seem reasonable to continue the plan. Fourth, we found that introspection processes were related to age differences in decisions. Older people were less likely to mention future-oriented thoughts of eventual success associated with greater willingness to continue the failing plan. We discuss factors to consider when designing interventions for reducing sunk-cost bias.

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“…Our findings are consistent with this notion, however it is important to keep in mind that in comparison to the general population, our cohort's scores were once again skewed towards higher than average wellbeing. The current study does not bring any additional insights on why wellbeing in this sample was higher than average to begin with and improved in time, however one explanation suggests that older adults may consciously and deliberately make a decision to be happy, that is they employ cognitive strategies to maximise their happiness [8].…”

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The quantified older adult as design requirements for accessible wellbeing interventions

McNeill

Campbell

Coventry

2019

Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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In this paper we describe how we engaged a group of healthy older adults in lifelogging and how we used their data to help design a healthy-aging intervention. 35 participants (mean age = 73.6, age range 59-88, Men=15, Women = 20) were tracked longitudinally for 18 months. Participants provided data at three time points. This involved the use of activity trackers, GPS trackers, and paper diaries. A number of well-established psychometric scales were also administered to gather standardised measures of health and wellbeing. While the data provides insight into the relationship between physical and social activity with regards to wellbeing, we aim to show that the nature of these relationships provide insight into how to design effective healthy-living interventions for older adults. By using the better predictors of wellbeing, we can target change in specific areas and assess change in those areas. While our sample is of relatively high-functioning older adults, we argue that understanding how they maintain wellbeing allows us to understand how to promote wellbeing amongst more inactive and frail older adults. Results showed the importance of specific types of social involvement such as meeting activity-group members and we propose that recommender systems should target these more important predictors of well-being. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing • Social and professional topics~Seniors KEYWORDSOlder adults, life-logging, well-being.

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Choosing to be happy? Age differences in “maximizing” decision strategies and experienced emotional well-being.

Cited by 42 publications

References 52 publications

Discriminación, aculturación y bienestar psicológico en inmigrantes latinoamericanos en Chile

Discriminación, aculturación y bienestar psicológico en inmigrantes latinoamericanos en Chile

What were they thinking? Reducing sunk-cost bias in a life-span sample.

The quantified older adult as design requirements for accessible wellbeing interventions

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