@article{ref1,
title="Hassles, anxiety, and negative well-being",
journal="Anxiety, stress, and coping",
year="1992",
author="Kohn, Paul M. and Macdonald, Jennifer E.",
volume="5",
number="2",
pages="151-163",
abstract="Abstract Adult volunteers (N = 234) responded to a ?decontaminated? hassles scale plus measures of trait anxiety, perceived stress, psychiatric symptomatology, and minor physical ailments. All but the anxiety scale were time-referenced to the past month. Major findings were as follows: (1) Hassles and trait anxiety contributed positively to perceived stress, both individually and interactively, accounting altogether for 55% of the variance; highly anxious subjects showed lower increments in perceived stress with increasing hassles-exposure than did low anxious subjects. (2) Hassles and trait anxiety had a positive synergistic effect on psychiatric symptomatology which, along with the nonsignificant marginal main effects, accounted for 64% of the variance. (3) Hassles and trait anxiety had a positive synergistic effect on minor physical ailments in men; however, highly anxious women, who showed very high levels of illness under even low hassles-exposure, responded less to incremental stress than did low-anxious women. The significant Sex x Hassles x Trait-Anxiety interaction effect and all the implicated lower-order effects jointly accounted for 22% of the variance in minor ailments.<p />",
language="",
issn="1061-5806",
doi="10.1080/10615809208250494",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809208250494"
}