In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to consider affects in older age. The psychology of learning throughout the whole life course, including in the life of older adults, suggest that affects play an important role. However, developmental psychology has paid little attention to affects in learning and development, and even less to these aspects in older age. We believe that it is important to examine affects in older age because of their centrality in the lifecourse; but how to account for them? We propose the notion of to highlight the role of affects in older persons' learning and development, and to designate transversal and pluri-thematic interests across activities and domains of knowledge, which enable us to show that some topics, domains or interests become more important than others for a given person across time. We base our claims on a longitudinal study of older people engaging in different activities at home, in their neighbourhood, as well as in a daycare centre for older people, and provide three dialogical exemplars. We finally highlight some theoretical and empirical implications of our proposition.

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主题活动：老年的影响和学习

在本文中，我们提出了一种社会文化视角来考虑老年影响。整个生命过程中的学习心理学，包括老年人的生活，表明情感发挥着重要作用。然而，发展心理学很少关注学习和发展的影响，更不用说老年时的这些方面。我们认为，研究老年时期的情感非常重要，因为它们在生命历程中处于中心地位。但如何解释它们呢？我们提出强调情感在老年人学习和发展中的作用的概念，并指定跨活动和知识领域的横向和多主题兴趣，这使我们能够表明某些主题、领域或兴趣变得更加重要对于某个特定的人来说，在不同的时间里比其他人要好。我们的主张基于对老年人在家里、社区以及老年人日托中心从事不同活动的纵向研究，并提供了三个对话范例。我们最后强调了我们的命题的一些理论和经验意义。