Daily hassles as stressors
- Created by: z_mills1
- Created on: 15-05-14 11:26
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- Daily hassles
- hassles are those frustrating, irritating everyday experiences that occur regularly at work or home
- examples of hassles
- concerns about weight
- home maintenance
- misplacing or losing items
- examples of uplifts
- relating well to friends
- feeling healthy
- completing a task
- Bouteyre et al.
- correlational analysis of the relationship between daily hassles and mental health in students moving from school to uni
- students completed a hassles questionnaire and a depression inventory
- researchers found over 40% of new students suffered from depressive symptoms
- there was a positive correlation between scores on the hassles scale and the incidence of depressive symptoms
- Gervais
- asked nurses to record all daily hassles and uplifts whilst at work
- after a month - daily hassles increased job strain and decreased job performance
- however, daily uplifts appeared to counteract the stressful impact of these hassles and improved job performance
- Evaluation
- - most of the data on daily hassles is correlational - can't draw causal conclusions about relationships between hassles and stress related peoblems
- + correlations indicate that daily stress can potentially have adverse effects on our health and feelings of well-being
- - most of the data on daily hassles is correlational - can't draw causal conclusions about relationships between hassles and stress related peoblems
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