Predicting real-world behaviour: Cognition-emotion links across adulthood and everyday functioning at work

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Table 1. Research trends and gaps in knowledge on cognition-emotion links across adulthood.

Research trends	Relevant review papers
Testing the generality of positive age trends in well-being	Sliwinski and Scott (2014); Riediger and Rauers (2014)
Testing cognitive-emotional processes and capacities as underlying mechanisms of well-being trajectories	Scheibe and Carstensen (2010)
Attention to context effects and boundary conditions for relationships between age, cognitive-emotional mechanisms, and well-being outcomes	Charles (2010); Kunzmann and Isaacowitz (2017)
Testing direct links between cognitive-emotional mechanisms and well-being outcomes	Isaacowitz and Blanchard-Fields (2012)
Research gaps
Unclear whether and when emotion-cognition links predict real-world behaviour, such as in the workplace	Scheibe and Zacher (2013), Diefendorff et al. (2015)
Limited knowledge on middle-aged adults	Lachman et al. (2015)
Neglect of relevant cognitive-emotional mechanisms, such as interpersonal emotion regulation or emotion understanding	Doerwald et al. (2016)
Absence of longitudinal data on cognitive-emotional mechanisms	Doerwald et al. (2016)
Role of life experience is often assumed but rarely ever tested	Charles and Luong (2013)

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Charles, S. T. (2010). Strength and vulnerability integration: A model of emotional well-being across adulthood. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 1068–1091. doi: 10.1037/a0021232

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Doerwald, F., Scheibe, S., Zacher, H., & Van Yperen, N. W. (2016). Emotional competencies across adulthood: State of knowledge and implications for the work context. Work, Aging and Retirement, 2, 159–216. doi: 10.1093/workar/waw013

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