daily hassles as a source of stress

Question 1

what are daily hassles?

Answer 1

-Lazaus believes they are:

frequent + everyday irritations that combine to cause stress

Question 2

explain primary and secondary appraisals?

Answer 2

• Lazarus argues when we experience a hassle we engage in primary appraisal to work out how threatening it is to our mental health
• threatening= secondary appraisal and we consider how best to equip to cop with the hassle.

Question 3

explain life changes, daily hassles and illness?

Answer 3

• life changes effect wellbeing through daily hassles
• disrupt everyday routines and it can be a struggle to get back to usual
• and now the little things that would usually cause to problems are hassles
• life changes= indirect form of stress
• daily hassles= direct form of stress

Question 4

evauate the procedure for research into daily hassles?

Answer 4

Kanner, researched whether daily hassles were a better predictor of ill-health than life changes

• 100 pps aged 45-65 completed a hassle scale every month for 9 months and a life changes scale 1 month before study and on the 10th month.
• researchers had 2 measures of life changes
• then completed another checklist to measure symptoms of depression

Question 5

evaluate the findings from research into daily hassles?

Answer 5

• positive correlations between hassle frequency and psychological symptoms at start and end of study
• more hassle = more depressive symptoms
• hassle was a stronger predictor of symptoms than life changes

Question 6

evaluate a strength of second daily hassles research findings?

Answer 6

• in another study pp’s completed hassles and uplifts scale, assessments of general health also taken giving quite an extensive base to make a reliable correlation
• and also found that daily hassles were better predictors of poor health/job performance

Question 7

evaluate a weakness of daily hassles research?

Answer 7

• pp’s complete checklist of daily hassles they had experienced over a certain time period
• usefulness of data depends on accuracy of memories
• problem as they may forget hassles+ think they are tooo trivial to account
• validity is doubtful