Global life satisfaction predicts ambulatory affect, stress, and cortisol in daily life in working adults

Smyth, Joshua M.; Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Juth, Vanessa; Sciamanna, Christopher N.

doi:10.1007/s10865-016-9790-2

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“…A third study—the Stress, Health, and Daily Experiences (SHADE)—examined how daily experiences relate to health and well-being among patients with asthma or rheumatoid arthritis (for details see Smyth et al, 2014). A fourth study—Work and Daily Life (WDL)—examined how workplace stress is associated with health and well-being among full-time employed adults (for details see Smyth et al, 2016). Finally, the North Texas Heart Study (NTHS) examined social vigilance as a predictor of cardiovascular disease (for details see Ruiz et al, 2017).…”

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Understanding stress reports in daily life: a coordinated analysis of factors associated with the frequency of reporting stress

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Although stress is a common experience in everyday life, a clear understanding of how often an individual experiences and reports stress is lacking. Notably, there is little information regarding factors that may influence how frequently stress is reported, including which stress dimension is measured (i.e., stressors—did an event happen, subjective stress—how stressed do you feel, conditional stress—how stressful a stressor was) and the temporal features of that assessment (i.e., time of day, day of study, weekday vs. weekend day). The purpose of the present study was to conduct a coordinated analysis of five independent ecological momentary assessment studies utilizing varied stress reporting dimensions and temporal features. Results indicated that, within days, stress was reported at different frequencies depending on the stress dimension. Stressors were reported on 15–32% of momentary reports made within a day; across days, the frequency ranged from 42 to 76% of days. Depending on the cutoff, subjective stress was reported more frequently ranging about 8–56% of all moments within days, and 40–90% of days. Likewise, conditional stress ranged from just 3% of moments to 22%, and 11–69% of days. For the temporal features, stress was reported more frequently on weekdays (compared to weekend days) and on days earlier in the study (relative to days later in the study); time of day was inconsistently related to stress reports. In sum, stress report frequency depends in part on how stress is assessed. As such, researchers may wish to measure stress in multiple ways and, in the case of subjective and conditional stress with multiple operational definitions, to thoroughly characterize the frequency of stress reporting.

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“…All emotion items demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (above .86) at the person level. From these emotion items, we created three measures of emotion: valence, arousal, and an interaction between valence and arousal based on Feldman's () breakdown of emotion items and using a similar rational to Smyth, Zawadzki, Juth, and Sciamanna (). To create valence, we weighted each item by its degree of positivity or negativity.…”

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Clarifying the Associations between Mindfulness Meditation and Emotion: Daily High‐ and Low‐arousal Emotions and Emotional Variability

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“…To date, the majority of research on SWB has used domain-general approaches (i.e., experienced across life contexts) to investigate the relationship between SWB and other valued life outcomes. Findings from this line of work have demonstrated, for example, that general positive affectivity is a significant predictor of physical health symptoms (Pettit, Kline, Gencoz, Gencoz, & Joiner Jr, 2001), that general self-efficacy has a positive influence on work performance (Parker, Jimmieson, & Johnson, 2013), and that general life satisfaction predicts momentary measures of psychological and physiological stress (Smyth, Zawadzki, Juth, & Sciamanna, 2017).…”

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Personality and College Student Subjective Wellbeing: A Domain-Specific Approach

Zhang

Renshaw

2019

J Happiness Stud

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Domain-specific measures of subjective wellbeing are valuable tools for assessing the mental health of college students. In this study, we examined relations between Big Five personality traits and college students' subjective wellbeing (SWB) using a college-specific measure: The College Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (CSSWQ). Using a latent variable modeling approach called bifactor analysis, we found that the general college wellbeing factor was best predicted by agreeableness and extraversion whereas the specific dimensions of college SWB were differentially predicted by conscientiousness and neuroticism. Specifically, conscientiousness best predicted academic satisfaction and efficacy whereas neuroticism best predicted students' connectedness to the university. The results suggest that the profile of a flourishing college student is extraverted and agreeable. This study illustrates the methodological advantage of using a domain-specific measure of SWB and bifactor modeling to shed light on the unique relations between personality and various aspects of college students' mental health.

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Global life satisfaction predicts ambulatory affect, stress, and cortisol in daily life in working adults

Cited by 50 publications

References 61 publications

Understanding stress reports in daily life: a coordinated analysis of factors associated with the frequency of reporting stress

Understanding stress reports in daily life: a coordinated analysis of factors associated with the frequency of reporting stress

Clarifying the Associations between Mindfulness Meditation and Emotion: Daily High‐ and Low‐arousal Emotions and Emotional Variability

Personality and College Student Subjective Wellbeing: A Domain-Specific Approach

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