“…In fact, research illustrates that greater affective reactivity, or the daily relationship between stress and negative affect (NA), predicts emotional (Charles, Piazza, Mogle, Sliwinski, & Almeida, 2013) and physical health (Piazza, Charles, Sliwinski, Mogle, & Almeida, 2012) as much as 10 years later. Effective Coping protects individuals from the negative effects of stress by disrupting the link between stress and well-being (Pearlin & Schooler, 1978); however, the effectiveness and importance of certain coping strategies may change as individuals age (Aldwin, Skinner, Zimmer-Gembeck, & Taylor, 2011). Because individuals differ in the way they experience the stress-affect relationship and use coping strategies, it is important to examine these relationships at the daily level in order to account for intraindividual variability and individual differences in that variability (Stone & Neale, 1984).…”