Study of emotional regulation during old age

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Anita Singh, Poonam and Shakuntla Punia (Department of Human Development and Family Studies I. C. College of Home Sciences, C.C.S.Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, Haryana)

The present study laid its emphasis to explore the need of emotional regulation assessment for which elderly men and women be aware about as to live a happy and contended life, emotion regulation skills are must. The objectives of the study were to probe the family background, study the different emotional regulation strategies and cognitive emotion regulation strategy and to have a measure of emotional expression of elderly people. Descriptive survey method was employed and sample was selected by simple random sampling technique. Older adults showed enhanced emotion regulation and respondents used reappraisal strategy more as compared to suppression strategy for their emotion regulation. Most preferred adoptive cognitive strategy in elderly was refocus on planning and females were more expressive in their emotions as compared to males. Study indicating that improved management of emotions with age is an important factor in maintaining well-being in old age.