Stressful Daily Events on Mood States

EFFECTS OF STRESSFUL DAILY EVENTS ON MOOD STATES-RELATIONSHIP TO GLOBAL PERCEIVED STRESS: AN ARTICLE REVIEW

The article "Effects of Stressful Daily Events on Mood States: Relationship to Global Perceived Stress" (van Eck, Nicolson, & Berkhof, 1998) is reviewed. The review is presented within the contexts of (1) theory, constructs, and hypothesis, (2) method, participants, variables, and procedures, (3) findings, (4) conclusions and implications, and (5) limitations.

Human reactions to psychosocial stressors have long been implicated with both positive and negative outcomes. On the negative side, stress theory has postulated that detrimental effects to health, both mental and physical, may be attributable to stress reaction. The major conceptual approach underlying research of the relationship between psychosocial stressors and health outcomes has emphasized individual reactions to major life events. The research, the results of which are reported in this article, however, approaches research into the relationship between psychosocial stressors and health outcomes from a different conceptual basis, in that individual reactions to "minor events or daily hassles" serve as the explanatory variable (van Eck, Nicolson, & Berkhof, 1998, p. 1572). The constructs associated with stress theory underlying the research were negative affect (NA), positive affect (PA), agitation (Ag), and perceived stress (PS).

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overnment agencies" (van Eck, Nicolson, and Berkhof, 1998, p. 1575). Qualifying questionnaires were distributed to the white collar employees in these organizations and 316 (30-to-40 percent in the various organizations) responded. Of these 316 subjects, 256 (81 percent) indicated a willingness to participate. The researchers sought two pools of participants low stress and high stress. Individuals scoring less than 10 or more than 14 on a PS screening instrument were contacted to participate further in the study, after excluding subjects reporting serious chronic illness. A total of 120 men were asked to participate further in the study, and 98 (82 percent) agreed. With further exclusions during the conduct of the study for scheduling, compliance issues, and the use of antidepressants, the eventual sample consisted of 85 subjects. All subjects were males aged 27 through 57 years with a mean age of 42.1 years. Ninety-three percent were married or living with a partner, and 70 percent had children living at home. Participants and non-participants in the study did not vary to a significant extent in relation to these demographic variables. Experience sampling methodology (ESM) was used to collect the data from the study par

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