社会情绪选择理论认为，未来时间知觉变短促使老年人将动机从知识获得目标转移至情绪调节目标。在日常事件中采用包含选择、优化、补偿的SOC策略被证实有利于老年人更好地适应社会。本文旨在通过改变主观年龄以操纵未来时间知觉，通过SOC策略的测量检验人们在目标选择和目标达成两阶段中的目标偏好。
实验一招募了44名老年被试（年龄：M=63.44, SD=3.61）和37名年轻被试（年龄：M=22.83, SD=4.10），通过编写日常事件模拟目标选择阶段和目标达成阶段以比较两个年龄组在SOC策略选择上的差异。结果发现：在目标选择阶段，老年人对不同目标的SOC策略选择没有显著的差异，而年轻人差异显著；在目标达成阶段，老年人的SOC策略选择结果表现出了对情感目标的倾向性，年轻人表现出了对知识目标的倾向性。
实验二保留了实验一的被试群体（3人退出，保留率96%），通过文字和图片唤醒的方式分别对老年人和年轻人主观年龄进行了操纵，比较主观年龄改变前后的被试对不同目标的SOC策略选择差异。结果发现：主观年龄的变化显著影响人们的SOC策略选择，老年人的情感目标始终优先于知识目标，而年轻人对不同目标的优先性发生了转换。
本研究发现主观年龄的改变会影响人们在不同目标事件中的SOC策略选择，对理解社会情绪选择理论中的目标转换性质进行了补充说明。

According to Social Emotional Selective theory, the shorter perception of future time promotes the elderly to shift their motivation from knowledge acquisition to emotion regulation. SOC strategy (the Model of Selection, Optimization and Compensation, SOC) including selection, optimization and compensation in daily events has been proved to be beneficial for the elderly to better adapt to the society. The purpose of this paper is to manipulate future time perception by changing subjective age, and to test people's goal preference in the two stages of goal selection and goal achievement by measuring SOC strategy.
In Experiment 1, 44 elderly subjects (age: M = 63.44, SD = 3.61) and 37 young subjects (age: M = 22.83, SD = 4.10) were recruited to compare the differences in SOC strategy selection between the two age groups by writing daily event simulation goal selection stage and goal achievement stage. The results show that: in the stage of goal selection, there is no significant difference in SOC strategy choice between the elderly and the young; In the stage of goal achievement, the results of SOC strategy selection of the elderly show a tendency to emotional goals, while the young show a tendency to knowledge goals.
In Experiment 2, the subjects of Experiment 1 were retained (3 were withdrawn, the retention rate was 96%), and the subjective age of the elderly and the young were manipulated by text and picture arousal, respectively. The differences of SOC strategy selection for different goals before and after the subjective age change were compared. The results show that: the change of subjective age has a significant impact on people's SOC strategy choice, the emotional goal of the elderly always takes precedence over the knowledge goal, while the priority of young people to different goals has changed.
This study finds that the change of subjective age will affect people's SOC strategy choice in different target events, which provides a supplementary explanation for understanding the nature of goal switching in the Theory of Social Emotional Selective.