As People Get Older, They Start to Rely on Some

Multiple Choice

As people get older, they start to rely on some emotion regulation strategies more than others. Which of the following statements is true about emotion regulation in older adults?

A) They tend to rely more on strategies like situation selection that prevent negative emotion experiences, rather than strategies like expressive suppression that attempt to reduce ongoing emotions
B) They tend to have better control over their emotion expression because they have a lot of experience suppressing their emotions
C) They engage in more catastrophizing than younger adults because they often suffer from health issues, and this results in them having lower average subjective well-being than younger adults
D) Both A and B
E) All of the above