PSychology Delongis Dialy Hassles
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- Delongis et al DAILY HASSLES
- Aim
- To see whether the life events scale or own daily hassles scale is better at predicting of later health problems
- Later they also considered the effects of uplifts
- Procedure
- 100 participants from around San Francisco aged between 45- 64 well educated with high income asked to complete 4 questionnaires once a month for a year
- 1- Hassles scale (117 hassles eg: concerns about weight, crime)
- 2- Uplifts scale (135 uplifts eg: promotion, relations with friends)
- 3- Life events questionnaire (24 major events)
- 4- A health status questionnaire (overall health, bodily symptoms, energy levels)
- Findings
- Both the frequency and intensity of hassles significantly correlated with overall health status
- Uplifts has little effect on health
- Conclusion
- A positive correlation: The more daily hassles = More likely to get ill
- Negative correlation between events that make us feel good and illness
- Stronger correlation between daily hassles and ill health than the SRRS so daily hassles is a better predictor of illness
- Evaluation
- Relationship between hassles and ill health is correlational = difficult to prove cause and effect
- Sample is people over 45. sample bias. Khan and Pate; found older people tend to have less severe and fewer hassle than younger people
- Rating of hassles is retrospective, when ill people tend to over exadurate
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