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Handbook of emotion, adult development, and aging
Title:
Handbook of emotion, adult development, and aging
Author:
Magai, Carol.
ISBN:
9780080532776
Publication Information:
San Diego : Academic Press, c1996.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 470 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Emotions and the aging brain : regrets and remedies / Differential emotions theory and emotional development in adulthood and later life / Ethological perspectives on human development and aging / A humanistic and human science approach to emotion / Psychosocial perspectives on emotions : the role of identity in the aging process

Emotion, thought, and gender / Emotion and cognition in attachment / Emotion and memory / Emotion and everyday problem solving in adult development / Emotions in the construction of autobiography

Connections between parents and their adult children / Affect and sibling relationships in adulthood / Affect in intimate relationships : the development course of marriage / The understanding of friendship : an adult life course perspective / Emotional reactions to interpersonal losses over the life span : an attachment theoretical perspective

The role of coping in the emotions and how coping changes over the life span / Emotion, personality, and health / Quality of life and affect in later life / Religion, emotions, and health

Mood and personality in adulthood / Facial expressions of emotion and personality / Personality change in adulthood : dynamic systems, emotions, and the transformed self / Emotional episodes and emotionality through the life span / The story of your life : a process perspective on narrative and emotion in adult development
Abstract:
This text examines emotion in adult life including its influence on memory, problem-solving, and other cognitive functions, its role in adult interpersonal relationships, its effect on health and well-being, and its contributions to the stability of personality and to possibilities for development.
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