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About this paper
Daniela Teodorescu, Saif M. Mohammad, Alona Fyshe
Researchers from the University of Alberta and National Research Council Canada explored how linguistic distancing, a marker of emotion regulation, varies across the adult lifespan using social media data. Their analysis of Reddit and X posts revealed that linguistic distancing generally increases with age, supporting theories of improved emotion regulation in older adulthood.
Key insights
- Linguistic distancing serves as a quantifiable and ecologically valid proxy for studying emotion regulation processes in naturalistic social media text across the adult lifespan.
- While overall linguistic distancing tends to increase with age, individual dimensions (social, temporal, abstractness, passive voice) exhibit distinct trajectories, with social distancing showing the steepest rate of increase.
- The methodology offers a robust framework for leveraging large-scale textual data to investigate age-related psychological phenomena, providing an alternative perspective to traditional longitudinal studies.
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