Greater increases in negative affect and greater decreases positive on days stressors occur portend poorer mental physical health years later. Although personality traits influence stressor-related affect, only neuroticism extraversion among the Big Five have been examined any detail. Moreover, may shape how people appraise daily stressors, yet few studies appraisals account for associations between affect. Two used participants (N = 2,022; age range: 30-84) from National Study of Daily...

The way we respond to life’s daily stressors has strong implications for our physical health. Researchers have documented the detrimental effects of initial emotional reactivity on future health outcomes but yet examine emotions that linger after a stressor occurs. current study investigated how negative affect lingers day minor occurs is associated with health-related outcomes. Participants ( N = 1,155) in community-based, nationwide answered questions about and across 8 consecutive days...

Researchers hypothesize that how people react to daily stressful events partly explains the relationship between personality and health, yet no study has examined longitudinal associations these factors. The current focused on role of negative affect reactivity as a mediating pathway physical health outcomes using three waves data spanning 20 years from nationwide probability sample 1,176 adults. Results indicated partially mediated health. Wave 1 neuroticism was associated with greater at...

Empathy plays a crucial role in promoting older adults' interpersonal experiences, but it remains unclear how these benefits of empathy occur. To address this gap, we examined associations between and adults behave express emotions during their daily encounters. Participants included 268 aged 65+ (46% men, n = 124) from the Daily Experiences Well-being Study. They reported background characteristics baseline interviews indicated encounters every 3 hours across 5 to 6 days. wore...

Exposure to discrimination is consistently linked with worse physical and mental health outcomes. One potential reason that discriminatory experiences shape the way people interpret affectively react daily stressful events which in turn impacts health. The current study examined role of these two psychological stress processes as a pathway linking longitudinal association between perceived outcomes.Participants National Study Daily Experiences (NSDE), subset Midlife United States (MIDUS)...

This study examines stress, mental health, and well-being in K-12 teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic Fall 2020 school restart assesses differences health by mode of instruction: online, in-person, or a hybrid. (n = 5856) across three states completed an online survey with questions pertaining to teacher's experiences surrounding COVID restart. Using OLS regression, we found that who engaged dual modalities (both in-person building on regular basis) reported greater levels perceived...

Abundant research has linked nightly sleep as an antecedent of daily psychosocial experiences; however, less is known about sleep's influence on expectations these experiences. Therefore, this examined the day-to-day associations quality, duration, and efficiency with next-day for stress(ors) positive experiences, well whether were related to end-of-day reports physical symptoms.

The current study examined the factor structure of emotional experience across adults 34-50, 51-65, and 66-84 year olds.Participants (N = 2,022) were asked about 14 negative 13 positive emotions 8 days in National Study Daily Experiences II study. Factor analysis computed both inter-individual factors (between-person experience) intra-individual (factors describing daily life) for each age group.For variation, one captured experienced first two groups, but 66 to 84-year-old had an additional...

Heightened affective and physical reactions to daily stressful events predict poor long-term mental health outcomes. It is unknown, however, if an experimental manipulation designed increase interpersonal resources at work can reduce associations between stressors well-being. The present study tests the effects of a workplace intervention supervisor support for family personal life schedule control on employees' reactivity in different domains (i.e., work, home, interpersonal,...

Older adults who are physically active report lower levels of stress. Less is known about the links between physical activity and exposure reactivity to stressful events in daily life. The current study examined within-person associations actigraphy-assessed affective naturally occurring interpersonal stressors. (N = 180) from Daily Experiences Well-being Study completed ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) every 3 hr for 5-6 days where they reported negative affect throughout day...

Abstract Objectives Daily electronic media use, including television viewing and computer is common in older adulthood. Yet, increased usage may disrupt nightly sleep, leading to sleeping fewer hours more sleep disruptions. The current study examined these relationships adulthood, as well the potential buffering effect of having a regular schedule. Methods Older adults (N = 273) from Experiences Well-Being Study (DEWS) completed 5–6 days data collection where they answered questions at...

Abstract Good sleep habits are important for emotional well‐being. Studies have linked with people's ability to regulate their emotions in response stressful events, yet little is known specifically about how related a person's recover affectively from experience. The current study examined self‐reported and associations both positive negative affective recovery laboratory‐induced stressor. Participants ( N = 120) reported over the previous month then engaged laboratory psychosocial stress...

Researchers typically assume that all forms of positive affect (PA) are equally beneficial for attenuating the physiological stress response. We tested whether this association is more nuanced by examining role arousal level PA on responses to acute pain. Participants (N = 283, 75.6% female, Mage 20.6) were randomized a low, mid, or high (calm, happy, and excited, respectively) induction condition neutral control then completed an pain-inducing cold pressor task. Sympathetic parasympathetic...

Independent lines of research suggest that smoking increases the prospective risk panic disorder. Studies have examined hypothesized link between nicotine withdrawal and typically employed light smokers or lacked optimal control groups. Our laboratory team previously found, for example, who abstained from cigarettes 12 hr demonstrated greater fear reactivity to a CO(2) rebreathing challenge than nonsmokers. However, absence smoking-as-usual group limited our ability draw conclusions about...

Abstract Background Disturbed sleep is prevalent in older adulthood and particularly among women. Greater psychological well-being (PWB) associated with better sleep, but intraindividual variability PWB has not been examined. Purpose The current study examined whether mean levels were disturbances midlife Methods Participants (N = 189) completed up to seven daily diaries an end of the week assessment every 3 months for nine waves. answered questions about their nightly reported using Ryff’s...

Objectives: To test whether older adults’ pain was bidirectionally associated with nighttime sleep disturbances and daily positive encounters attenuated these associations. Methods: Participants ( N = 292, mean 73.71 years old) from the Daily Experiences Well-being Study indicated close partners (e.g., family friends) nonclose acquaintances service providers) every 3 hours throughout each day across 4–6 days. They also reported following morning. Results: Multilevel models revealed that...

To slow the spread of COVID-19 in United States, businesses shutdown Spring 2020. Research has indicated impact on frontlines workers, yet little is known about those who were not working outside home or switched to remotely.The purpose this report identify financial and healthcare issues mental health Appalachians by worker categories.An online survey was administered from May 8 - June 6, 2020 a convenience sample previous research participants shared through social media networks, i.e.,...