This article explores the assumption that the goals on which an individual works structure the experience of daily life. One set of important goals are those consensual tasks that reflect the age-graded expectations of a living environment (e.g., the task of being on one's own at college). Whereas most members of a common age group share these consensual life tasks, individuals in a group differ in the relative importance they place on different tasks and in their appraisals of them. In the present study of 54 women living in a college sorority, the importance of a life task was associated with increased relevance of the task to daily life events, as revealed in experience sampling. The women were more emotionally involved in events that they saw as highly relevant to their life tasks than in less relevant events and, for each person, positive affect and emotional involvement in task-relevant events were related to her initial life task appraisals.A critical issue when studying personality and daily life experience is to find units of analysis that simultaneously reflect the personality of the individual and the features of the life context in which daily life experience takes shape (Caspi, Bolger, & Eckenrode, 1987;Magnusson We aie pleased to acknowledge the technical assistance of Nancy Exelby and the comments on this article by

This study, the largest to our knowledge involving state driving records of patients with AD, does not confirm the previously reported excessive crash rate among drivers with AD relative to an appropriate comparison population. Reduced driving exposure of patients with AD probably kept their crash adverse equal to that of comparison subjects. Intervention by physicians and family members was major factor in reducing driving exposure. These findings affirm that the mere diagnosis of AD does not justify license revocation.

Pursuing a goal in daily life can involve conflict and preoccupation as well as satisfaction and positive affect. This article addresses the correlates of conflict about the pursuit of romantic intimacy for a sample of women in a college sorority. For those women already in serious relationships, conflict was associated with romantic satisfaction but also with a narrow focus on communion in the relationship. For those pursuing intimacy in the context of casual dating, conflict was associated with the perceived difficulty and dissatisfaction of the task, but also with time spent thinking about it and with a desire to effect change in their romantic lives. Implications of these findings are discussed in the light of literature on personal goals and interpersonal attachment styles.

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