STRESS: Social - Daily Hassles A03

Question 1

Daily Hassles :)

Answer 1

Research Support:
Ivancevich

Question 2

Daily Hassles :(

Answer 2

Low validity (Retrospective Recall)

Difficult to establish a cause-effect link

Question 3

Daily Hassles :) Ivancevich

Answer 3

Daily hassles = better predictors than life events for poor health, worse job performance, and more time off work.
Supports the link between daily hassles and stress, and supports that they are more significant than life changes.

Question 4

Daily Hassles :( Low Validity

Answer 4

Retrospective recall is often involved in D/H research: E.g. keeping a diary of hassles experienced that day/yesterday/last week/last month.
Hassles = minor events - may be easily forgotten or misremembered.

Questions the validity of the findings of research into daily hassles, so weakens the link between hassles and stress.

Question 5

Daily Hassles :( Cause-Effect Link

Answer 5

Difficult to establish a cause-effect link with hassles and stress, as research is correlational.
Therefore, it could be that feelings of depression and anxiety lead a person to report more hassles, and experience them more negatively, rather than the hassles causing the depression.
Weakens the proposed link between hassles and stress.