3.3.4 Daily Hassles (Str)

Question 1

What are daily hassles?

Answer 1

Minor everyday irritation which can trigger our stress response

Question 2

What might daily hassles include?

Answer 2

Losing keys
Oversleeping
Sleeping badly
Stuck in traffic
Forgetting things
Social hassles e.g. Issues at work

Question 3

Why might daily hassles be a more significant source of stress than life events?

Answer 3

They occur everyday where like events like divorce or death are rare

Question 4

What are the 5 most common daily hassles?

Answer 4

Weight concerns 
Health of family
Increasing prices of common goods
Home maintenance
Too much to do

Question 5

What percent of people selected weight concerns as a hassle?

Answer 5

52.4%

Question 6

What percent of people selected health of a family member as a hassle?

Answer 6

48.1%

Question 7

What percent of people selected rising price of accommodation as a hassle?

Answer 7

43.7%

Question 8

What percent of people selected home maintenance as a hassle?

Answer 8

42.8%

Question 9

What percent of people selected too much to do as a hassle?

Answer 9

38.6%

Question 10

(Uplifts) What are uplifts?

Answer 10

Positive experiences we may have

Question 11

(Uplifts) give examples of some uplifts:

Answer 11

Getting a good sleep

Good grade on a test

Question 12

(Uplifts) what do uplifts neutralise?

Answer 12

The harmful effects of hassles

Question 13

(Uplifts) uplifts give us a break giving us energy to do what’s

Answer 13

Sustain any coping strategy and remain positive

Question 14

(Accumulation effect) what is the accumulation effect?

Answer 14

Build up of hassles or stressors overtime leads to the negative effects of stress

Question 15

(Accumulation effect) if lots of hassles are experienced close together what can it lead to?

Answer 15

Ongoing feeling of stress and negative feelings associated with it

Question 16

(Accumulation effect) why are hassles difficult to avoid?

Answer 16

They are experienced everyday exaggerating any problems

Question 17

(Amplification) What is amplification?

Answer 17

Chronic stress due to life events e.g. Moving house making people more vulnerable to effects of daily hassles

Question 18

(Amplification) e.g. Stress of a big move makes minor irritations what?

Answer 18

Difficult to cope with

Question 19

(Social support) daily hassles may cause issues if we don’t do what?

Answer 19

Seek out or receive adequate social support to deal with them

Question 20

(Social support) e.g. If someone moves far away for their husbands new job what don’t they have?

Answer 20

Social support of friends and family

Support of husband working long hours in their new job

Question 21

(Social support) (flett et al) 320 students were asked to read a story describing what?

Answer 21

An individual who experienced a life event or daily hassle

Question 22

(Social support) (flett et al) students then had to rate what?

Answer 22

The amount of support the person in the story would receive

Question 23

(Social support) (flett et al) the individuals who had experienced the events were rated as being what?

Answer 23

More in need of and seeking out more social support from others

Question 24

As we experience daily hassles on a frequent basis what is it reasonable to predict?

Answer 24

Correlation between hassles and illness will be stronger than life events and illness

Question 25

(Hassles, stress and health) Kanner et al used a longitudinal study to compare impact of what?

Answer 25

Life events and daily hassles as a source of stress

Question 26

(Hassles, stress and health) who were Kanners participants?

Answer 26

100 45-64 year olds

Question 27

(Hassles, stress and health) Kanners participants completed what scale and when?

Answer 27

Hassles and uplifts scale for events over the previous month once a month for nine months

Question 28

(Hassles, stress and health) Kanner also used questionnaires to measure participants what?

Answer 28

Mental health and emotional responses

Question 29

(Hassles, stress and health) Kanner found what type of relationship between frequency of hassles and wellbeing?

Answer 29

Significant negative correlation

Question 30

(Hassles, stress and health) Kanner - hassles were a better predictor of well being than what?

Answer 30

Life events and uplifts