O papel da idade na capacidade de reconhecimento emocional : uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

In the aging process, changes in perception and cognition can generate losses in the recognition of facial emotion expressions. Difficulties in these áreas can lead to impaired social competence, social functioning, as well as decreased quality of life. Given the relevance and pertinence of the theme, in the present work, a systematic review of the literature was carried out according to the PRISMA guidelines in order to understand the age-related differences in emotional recognition in the elderly normative population. For this purpose, three databases were searched, Pubmed, Web of Science and Scopus, with 37 articles published between 2010 and 2020 being selected. The results show that the elderly show a decline in the recognition of emotional expressions, mainly for negative emotions, while they more accurately recognize positive emotions. These results can be explained by the structural theory and the theory of socioemotional selectivity. On the other hand, age differences in the tasks of emotional recognition are more prominent when using static rather than dynamic stimuli that are quite effective due to the ability to minimize the degree of difficulty of the elderly in the task of emotional identification.

Date of Award	2021
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	Maria José Pereira Ferreira (Supervisor)