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KMID : 0379220200400061455
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2020 Volume.40 No. 6 p.1455 ~ p.1474
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The effect of proposer’s age on the acceptance rates of older and younger respondents in the Ultimatum Game: The evidence of the Social Input Model
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Hur Ah-Jeong
Ghim Hei-Rhee
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Abstract
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Positive social relationship in old age has been explained by the older adults’ motivation and ability to regulate their emotions as positive. However, the recently proposed Social Input Model maintains that the social relationships of older adults are positive because not only older adults regulate their emotions, but also their social partners have a positive influence by regulating their emotions in conflicting situations with older adults. In other words, people react favorably to older adults when they interact with them, which positively affects the social relationships of older adults. This study tested whether young adults who were less good at emotion regulation could regulate their emotions more toward older adults than toward young and middle-aged adults. Ultimatum game was used in which the respondent had to decide whether to accept or reject it when the proposer proposes to allocate some of the limited resources to the respondents. If the respondent rejects the proposal, neither the proposer nor the respondent gets nothing. Therefore, if respondents consider their own interests, they should accept the unfair offers no matter how small their share is by regulating the anger felt at the offer. Seventy university students and 78 old adults participated in this study. Overall, older adults accepted more and reported anger less at the unfair offers compared with young adults. Young adults accepted more and reported anger less at the older adults’ offers than those proposed by the young and mid-aged adults. On the other hand, older adults accepted less and reported anger more at the mid-aged proposers’ unfair offers. This study has provided a new evidence of Social Input Model which claims that both older adults and their social partners contribute to positive social relationships in old age.
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KEYWORD
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Social Input Model, emotion regulation, ultimatum game, older adults, age of proposer
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