Person and contextual features of daily stress reactivity: Individual differences in relations of undesirable daily events with mood disturbance and chronic pain intensity.

Abstract

We examined the mood-related and pain-related consequences of daily stressors among 74 individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who supplied daily reports for 75 days. Meta-analyses of time series regression coefficients disclosed a significant same-day relation between events and mood but no consistent effects of events on same-day pain, next-day mood, or next-day pain. With distributional characteristics of the daily data controlled, Ss with more active inflammatory disease showed a greater positive relation of events with same-day and next-day pain, those with a recent history of more major life stressors showed a greater positive relation of events with next-day pain, and those with less social support showed a greater positive relation of events with next-day mood disturbance. Implications of these and other findings for theories of stress and adaptation and the methodological challenges of daily experience research are discussed.

The experience of rheumatoid arthritis pain and fatigue: Examining momentary reports and correlates over one week

“…Recent work by Affleck et a1 (17) has shown that stress associated with undesirable daily events is positively associated with arthritic pain. These associations were derived from end-of-day assessments taken over several weeks.…”

Daily reports of symptoms and negative affect: Not all symptoms are the same

“…Affleck, Tennen, Urrows & Higgins, 1994) among patient populations. We were interested in examining these associations among healthy adults to examine how seemingly transient experiences of health and affective well-being may have a greater effect on daily life than their definitions imply.…”

Chronic strain, daily work stress and pain among workers with rheumatoid arthritis: Does job stress make a bad day worse?

“…Finally, we did not examine how chronic strain and acute, daily stress work together to affect pain and mood across days. As Affleck et al (1990Affleck et al ( , 1994 have shown, it is a mistake to abstract one day out of the week, month or life of an individual with a disease like RA that changes from day-to-day. Future studies must examine how both paid and unpaid work events pile up over the week, the month, the year and with what effect on health.…”