Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Daily Hassles
- Research on daily hassles
- Measuring hassles and uplifts
- DeLongis et al
- HSUP - The Hassles and Uplifts Scales
- Measures a respondents attitudes towards daily situations
- Evaluates both the positive and negative events
- Daily Hassles
- Bouteyre et al
- Investigated the relationship between
daily hassles and the mental health of
students during the initial transition
period from school to university
- Used part of the HSUP and Becks Depression
Inventory
- Found there was a positive correlation between scores on the
hassles scale and the incidence of depressive symptoms
- 41% suffered from depressive symptoms
- Shows daily hassles can be considered a significant risk factor for depression
- Daily
Uplifts
- Gervais
- Asked nurses to keep a diary for a month,
recording daily hassles and uplifts at work
- Daily hassles decreased job performance and increased job strain
- Uplifts sometimes counteracted the negative effects of daily hassles
- Daily Hassles Vs Life Changes
- Flett et al
- Daily hassles have more of an impact because of less social support
- Evaluation
- Methodological problems
- What does the research tell us?
- Correlation not cause
- The problems of retrospective recall
- Overcome by using diary method
- Participants usually asked about the previous month
- Explaining daily
hassles
- The accumulation effect
- The build up of hassles over the day can result in more stress reactions
- Lazarus
- The amplification
effect
- Chronic stress due to a major life change can make people more vulnerable to hassles
- Individual Difference
- Miller
- Pets can be seen as an uplift for females but are more associated with hassles in males
- Applications
- Gulian et al
- Road rage linked to daily hassles