daily hassles
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Daily hassles
Measuring hassles and uplifts
The hassles and uplift scales or HSUP- Delongis et al 1982 = measures respondents’ attitudes toward daily situations.
The HSUP provides a way of evaluating both the positive and negative events that occur in each person’s daily life.
Daily hassles
Bouteyre et al 2007
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Investigated the relationship between daily hassles and mental health of students during the initial transition period from school to university.
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First year psychology students at a French university
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Completed the hassles part of the HSUP and the Beck Depression inventory- this was to measure whether the students had to developed depression due to the hassles of the transition.
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41% of the student studied suffered from depressive symptoms and there was a positive correlation between scores on the hassles scale and the incident of depression symptoms
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Daily hassles = significant risk to depression.
Daily uplifts
Gervais 2005
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Asked nurses to keep diaries for a month, recording all their daily hassles and uplifts while at work.
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Rate their own performance
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Daily hassles were found to increase job strain and decrease job performance.
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Nurses…
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