Daily hassles

• These are minor irritations than can trigger a stress response
• Buffer- uplifts give a break from hassles and help to cope
• Accumulation- many frequent events that lead to more stress

  Amplification- chronic stress from life events, more vulnerable to hassles

  Lack of social support- less to buffer
• Kanner- negative correlation between frequency of hassles and wellbeing

  longitudinal- 100 participants 45-64 completed HSUP over 9 months.

  better predictor of well-being than uplifts
• Aldwin- Older people also had more hassles and less uplifts which means they had less to buffer stress
• Bouteyre- 233 students moving to university- 41% depressive symptoms

  Daily hassles was a major risk factor
• Dohrenwend- overlap on HSUP and symptoms of psychological (psychologists assessed) disorder (sleep and insomnia) Hassles may not actually be the problem.
• Self- report questionnaires issues of social desirability- doesn't effect them...
• Each event on scale couldn't select anything less than severe for it's effect
• No individual difference in response