TY - JOUR PY - 1992// TI - Hassles, anxiety, and negative well-being JO - Anxiety, stress, and coping A1 - Kohn, Paul M. A1 - Macdonald, Jennifer E. SP - 151 EP - 163 VL - 5 IS - 2 N2 - 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.

LA - SN - 1061-5806 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615809208250494 ID - ref1 ER -