Daily Hassles and Stress

DeLongis

  • 100pps asked to fill out 4 questionnaires a month for a year asking about daily hassles, uplifts, life events and health. He found that daily hassles positively correlated with ill health, not uplifts or life events.

evaluation

  • Retrospective data
  • Use of self-report studies
  • Correlational
  • Operationalising of factors

Very useful research