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Daily Diary ▶ Diaries
Daily Hassles ▶ Daily Stress
Daily Mood Variation
daily activities and transactions of everyday life. Daily stress is relatively minor, but has the potential to disrupt the flow of everyday life and add to overall levels of stress. Daily stress can be both anticipated and unanticipated. Anticipated daily stressors include, for example, driving in rush hour traffic on the way home from work, paying bills, working long hours, job performance evaluations, or taking children to after-school activities. Unanticipated stressors may include arguments with spouse, car trouble, getting stuck in long lines at the grocery store, getting sick, losing one’s keys, or inconveniences due to weather.
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Daily Stress C. Renn Upchurch Sweeney VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Synonyms Daily hassles; Everyday problems
Definition Daily stress is defined as mundane hassles, strains, or annoyances associated with routine
Daily stressors are not inherently stressful events, but they are events that people might appraise as stressful. The experience of feeling stressed depends on what events one notices and how one appraises or interprets these events, which is referred to as the “primary appraisal.” Events that are stressful for one person may be routine for another. For example, one may see an upcoming job interview as an exciting opportunity. Others may view it as terrifying. Theoretically, the person then engages in a “secondary appraisal” to determine the adequacy of personal and social resources for dealing with the stressor. Daily stress is different from major life stressors such as getting married, death of a loved one, or
M.D. Gellman & J.R. Turner (eds.), Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1005-9, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
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divorce. Unlike life events that call for people to make adjustments to their lives, daily hassles are part of everyday life. Daily stress is more frequent and continuous form of stress than less frequent events that constitute major life stressors. Because of its frequency it may be a more important determinant of stress than major life stressors. Daily stress and minor hassles have been found to be important forms of stress. Research indicates that routine hassles may have significant harmful effects on mental and physical health (i.e., declines in physical health such as headaches or backaches or worsening of symptoms in those already suffering from illness). Minor hassles can produce stress and aggravate physical and psychological health in several ways. First, the effect of minor stressors can be cumulative. Each hassle may be relatively unimportant in itself, but after a day filled with minor hassles, the effects add up. The cumulative impact of small stressors may wear down an individual until the person eventually feels overwhelmed, drained, grumpy, or stressed out. The aggregate effects of everyday hassles have the potential to compromise well-being or predis
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