Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status.

  • DeLongis A
  • Coyne J
  • Dakof G
  • et al.
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Abstract

Although studies of major life events continue to dominate the stress litera-ture, such events have not been shown to be strong predictors of future illness. The present study examined the relationship of both major life events and daily hassles—the repeated or chronic strains of everyday life—to somatic health. In multiple regression analysis it was found that hassles scores were more strongly associated with somatic health than were life events scores. Hassles shared most of the variance in health that could be accounted for by life events, and when the effects of life events were statistically removed, hassles and health remained significantly related. Daily uplifts made little contribution to health that was independent of hassles. The assessment of daily hassles appears to be a useful approach to the study of life stress and could be an important supplement to the life events approach which, by itself, is insufficient for full understanding and practical prediction of health outcomes. The standard methodology for assessing the impact of stress on health is the measurement of major life changes (Byrne & Whyte, 1980; Dohrenwend &

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DeLongis, A., Coyne, J. C., Dakof, G., Folkman, S., & Lazarus, R. S. (1982). Relationship of daily hassles, uplifts, and major life events to health status. Health Psychology, 1(2), 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.1.2.119

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