Social Psychological Explanations - Daily Hassles Flashcards
What is a daily hassle?
They are minor day to day irritations that can trigger our stress response
What is a daily uplift?
They are positive experiences that might neturalise/buffer the effect of hassles
What are the 3 ways hassles affect on people?
Accumilation
Amplification
Lack of social support
Why is a HSUP more effective than The SRRS?
Because the HSUP allows participants assign their own value to hassels , compared to them being predeterimed like the SRRS
What are the four evaluation points of daily hassles?
Supporting evidence, age diffrences, the scale may measure psychiatric problems, issues with self-report techniques
What is some supporting evidence for Daily hassles?
Bounteyre et al (2007) - French Uni students - found a strong correlation between life hassles and depression
What were Bounteyre et al (2007) findings regarding depression and life hassles?
He found that 41% of students we depresed , and they all a strong correlation with daily hassels
What is the evaulation point of the self-report aspect of a HSUP?
Social desirability may effect the answer of participants as they may be less likely to admit if they suffer from hassels , this is significant as hassles may not be recorded
What is the evaulation point of the HSUP measuring psychiatric problems?
Clincal Psychologists argue that there is a large degree of overlap between items on the HSUP scale and symptoms of other disorders , meaning that hassel score may be measuring disorders rather than actual hassels
What is the evaluation point of age differences for daily hassels?
Research suggests that life hassels change with age , as 48-70 year old males experienced less hassels and it increased in age and youth
