Hassles, health, and personality.
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 61 (3) , 478-482
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.61.3.478
Abstract
Undergraduates (N = 211) responded to a "decontaminated" hassles scale plus measures of trait anxiety, reactivity, perceived stress, psychiatric symptomatology, and minor physical ailments. All but the anxiety and reactivity scales were time referenced to the past month. Major findings were as follows: (1) Hassles and trait anxiety both contributed positively to perceived stress, jointly accounting for 58% of the variance; (2) hassles and reactivity both had a significant positive impact on minor ailments, together explaining 23% of the variance; and (3) hassles and trait anxiety had a significant interactive effect on psychiatric symptomatology, which along with the nonsignificant marginal main effects accounted for 67% of the variance. The positive impact of hassles on psychiatric symptomatology increased as trait anxiety rose; likewise, the pathogenic effect of trait anxiety increased with greater exposure to hassles. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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