Abstract
Older adulthood is characterized by enhanced emotional well-being potentially resulting from greater reliance on adaptive emotion regulation strategies. However, not all older adults demonstrate an increase in emotional well-being and instead rely on maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. An important moderator of age-related shifts in strategy preferences is working memory (WM) and its underlying neural circuitry. As such, individual differences in the neural integrity underlying WM may predict older adults’ emotion regulation strategy preferences. Our study used whole-brain WM networks—derived from young adults using connectome-based predictive modeling—to predict WM performance and acceptance strategy use in healthy older adults. Older adults (