Pk. Hilleras et al., NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE AFFECT AMONG THE VERY OLD - A SURVEY ON A SAMPLE AGE 90 YEARS OR OLDER, Research on aging, 20(5), 1998, pp. 593-610
The purpose of the study was to measure positive affect (PA) and negat
ive affect (NA), and the factors that might influence these in the ver
y elderly. The study involved 105 people, 90 years and older, who were
not cognitively impaired, living in the inner part of Stockholm. The
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule was translated and used to measu
re affect. Results showed that PA and NA were virtually uncorrelated.
Furthermore, it was also demonstrated that the factors that influence
affect in the very elderly are similar to those influencing affect in
younger ages and that personality traits are the major correlates of a
ffect.