A daily stress inventory: Development, reliability, and validity

Brantley, Phillip J.; Waggoner, Craig D.; Jones, Glenn N.; Rappaport, Neil B.

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“…Issues such as the chronicity (Mellman, Bustamante, Fins, Pigeon, & Nolan, 2002) and virulence (Brantley, Waggoner, Jones, & Rappaport, 1987) of the stress exposure thus need to be considered in defining stressors' effects on sleep. Thus, we attempted to group articles around a common theme as to the nature of the stress.…”

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The Effect of Psychosocial Stress on Sleep: A Review of Polysomnographic Evidence

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Dimsdale

2007

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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This systematic review examines the effect of diverse psychosocial stressors on polysomnographic measures of sleep. Sixty-three articles were located and categorized in terms of the types of stressors imposed. Experimental stress resulted in fairly consistent changes: decreases in slow wave sleep, REM sleep, and sleep efficiency (SE), as well as increases in awakenings. Data were limited in terms of response to non-experimental stressors, except for the case of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on sleep, where a number of reports suggest that PTSD patients have increased awakenings and decreased SE. Future research needs to define stress more precisely in terms of duration and severity and to measure its impacts on sleep in populations that differ in terms of age, comorbid illness, gender, and so forth. Without such fine-grained analyses, it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions about this important area.Sleep researchers traditionally have focused on primary sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, or periodic limb movement disorder; but common knowledge has it that the stresses of daily life can perturb even healthy sleep. As Mason (1968) described, psychological stressors are potent stimuli for physiological stress responses. Most studies on psychosocial stress and its physiological effects on sleep are based solely on subjective reports. However, these subjective reports of sleep are not sufficient to evaluate physiological sleep changes as measured by polysomnography (PSG; Akerstedt, Hume, Minors, & Waterhouse, 1994;Schneider-Helmert & Kumar, 1995). What really happens in sleep physiology after exposure to stressors? Although the gold standard of measurement of sleep is PSG, there are relatively little data concerning the effects of ordinary or severe stress on polysomnographically examined sleep. This article systematically reviews the diverse literature in this area.Stress is notorious for being difficult to define. It encompasses all kinds of stimuli of varying amounts of aversiveness and duration (Dimsdale, Irwin, Keefe, & Stein, 2005). Kecklund and Akerstedt (2004b) grouped stressors conceptionally into physical versus psychological or social, acute versus chronic, and high intensity versus low intensity.Copyright © Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. Correspondence should be addressed to Joel E. Dimsdale, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman D., La Jolla, CA 92093-0804. jdimsdale@ucsd.edu. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptBehav Sleep Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 December 15. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptAlthough there are numerous animal models of social stress, it is still challenging to generalize psychosocial stress responses in animals to those in humans. This review focuses on psychosocial stressors; other types of stressors such as environmental manipulations (e.g., temperature), exercise, or intentionally imposed sleep disruption are not covered in this article.It is possible that different types...

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The Effect of Psychosocial Stress on Sleep: A Review of Polysomnographic Evidence

Kim

Dimsdale

2007

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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“…The DSI yields two scores: the number of items endorsed (frequency) and an intensity measure (sum of scores divided by the frequency), with higher scores indicating higher perceived stress. The scale has good psychometric properties 52 and has been validated against measures of autonomic responsiveness and somaticism 53 .…”

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Measuring the ups and downs of pregnancy stress

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Costigan

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Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Despite substantial interest in the effects of stress on pregnancy, few instruments are available to measure pregnancy-specific stressors. Moreover, research has typically focused on the distressing, negative aspects of pregnancy. This report examines the reliability and validity of the Pregnancy Experience Scale (PES), a 41-item scale that measures pregnancy-specific daily hassles and uplifts. The PES was administered to two cohorts of low risk women at 24, 30, and 36 weeks (n = 52) or 32 and 38 weeks (n = 137). Women perceived their pregnancies to be significantly more intensely and frequently uplifting than hassling. Internal scale reliability was high (a = 0.91 to 0.95). Frequency and intensity scores for hassles and uplifts were stable over time (r's = 0.56 to 0.83) and patterns of convergent and discriminant validity emerged between the PES and existing measures of general affective intensity, daily stressors, depressive symptoms, and anxiety. These results indicate that (1) failure to measure pregnancy-specific stress will underestimate the degree to which pregnant women experience distress and (2) measurement of only the negative aspects of pregnancy will overestimate distress and fail to portray the degree to which women are psychologically elevated by their pregnancies. Measurement of hassles relative to uplifts may provide the most balanced assessment of pregnancy appraisal.

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“…These included the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, & Erbaugh, 1961), a hostility scale consisting of the 15 items (Ho-15) that make up the hostile affect, aggressive responding, and cynical hostility subscales of the 27-item Cook Medley Hostility Scale (Barefoot, Dodge, Peterson, Dahlstrom, & Williams, 1989;Barefoot, Larsen, von der Lieth, & Schroll, 1995;Beckham, Calhoun, Glenn, & Barefoot, 2002;Cook & Medley, 1954), the Anger Expression Inventory (AX; Spielberger & Syderman, 1994), the Interpersonal Support Evaluation List (ISEL; Brookings & Bolton, 1988;Cohen, 1985), the Pearlin Mastery Scale (Goldenberg et al, 1997;Skaff, Pearlin, & Mullan, 1996), and to assess stress over the past month, the Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen, Kamarck, & Mermelstein, 1983). On the day of the ambulatory monitoring, they also completed the state and trait subscales of the State-Trait Anxiety Index (STAI; Spielberger, 1983) and, to assess that day's stress, the Daily Stress Inventory (Brantley, Waggoner, Jones, & Rappaport, 1987).…”

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Deficits in plasma oxytocin responses and increased negative affect, stress, and blood pressure in mothers with cocaine exposure during pregnancy

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Grewen

Amico

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In animals, oxytocin enhances maternal behavior and lowers blood pressure (BP) and negative affect, while parturitional cocaine disrupts oxytocin activity and increases maternal neglect and aggression. Thus, we compared oxytocin, BP, maternal behavior, and affect in mothers of infants who used cocaine (cocaine, n = 10) or did not (no drug, n = 25) during pregnancy. Laboratory BP and circulating oxytocin, catecholamines, and cortisol were examined before and during a speech stressor on 2 days, with vs. without prestress baby holding. Ambulatory monitoring assessed BP, urinary norepinephrine, and cortisol for 24 h at home. The cocaine group had lower oxytocin levels, greater hostility and depressed mood, less support from others and mastery over life events, higher BP during all events of testing without the baby, and higher ambulatory BP and urinary norepinephrine at home, while cortisol and epinephrine responses were blunted. Although they tended to hold their babies less often at home, baby holding in the laboratory led to decreased BP in cocaine mothers who then did not differ from no-drug mothers in BP or observed affect.

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A daily stress inventory: Development, reliability, and validity

Cited by 358 publications

References 15 publications

The Effect of Psychosocial Stress on Sleep: A Review of Polysomnographic Evidence

The Effect of Psychosocial Stress on Sleep: A Review of Polysomnographic Evidence

Measuring the ups and downs of pregnancy stress

Deficits in plasma oxytocin responses and increased negative affect, stress, and blood pressure in mothers with cocaine exposure during pregnancy

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