Choking under Pressure: Does It Get Easier with Age? How Loneliness Affects Social Monitoring across the Life Span

Autor/inn/en	Pearce, Ellie; Barreto, Manuela; Victor, Christina; Hammond, Claudia; Eccles, Alice M.; Richins, Matthew T.; O'Neil, Alisha; Knowles, Megan L.; Qualter, Pamela
Titel	Choking under Pressure: Does It Get Easier with Age? How Loneliness Affects Social Monitoring across the Life Span
Quelle	In: International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46 (2022) 1, S.50-62 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Qualter, Pamela)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
DOI	10.1177/0165025420979369
Schlagwörter	Psychological Patterns; Age Differences; Social Influences; Emotional Response; Interpersonal Relationship; Cognitive Processes; Interpersonal Competence; Foreign Countries; Memory; Gender Differences; Late Adolescents; Young Adults; UCLA Loneliness Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Sozialer Einfluss; Emotionales Verhalten; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Ausland; Gedächtnis; Geschlechterkonflikt; Halbstarker; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	Previous experimental work showed that young adults reporting loneliness performed less well on emotion recognition tasks (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy [DANVA-2]) if they were framed as indicators of social aptitude, but not when the same tasks were framed as indexing academic aptitude. Such findings suggested that undergraduates reporting loneliness possessed the social monitoring skills necessary to read the emotions underlying others' facial expressions, but that they choked under social pressure. It has also been found that undergraduates reporting loneliness have better recall for both positive and negative social information than their non-lonely counterparts. Whether those effects are evident across different age groups has not been examined. Using data from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Loneliness Experiment that included participants aged 16-99 years (N = 54,060), we (i) test for replication in a larger worldwide sample and (ii) extend those linear model analyses to other age groups. We found only effects for participants aged 25-34 years: In this age group, loneliness was associated with increased recall of negative individual information, and with choking under social pressure during the emotion recognition task; those effects were small. We did not find any such effects among participants in other age groups. Our findings suggest that different cognitive processes may be associated with loneliness in different age groups, highlighting the importance of life-course approaches in this area. (As Provided).
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