Daily event causation: An approach to elderly life quality

Reich, John W.

doi:10.1002/1520-6629(198410)12:4<312::aid-jcop2290120404>3.0.co;2-b

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“…This two-factor model of well-being (Reich & Zautra, 1981;Zautra & Reich, 1983) encouraged us to attend to the measurement of positive and negative events (Zautra, Guarnaccia, & Dohrenwend, 1986;Zautra, Guarnaccia, Reich, & Dohrenwend, 1988) to further test this model. Along the way, we examined the influence of cognitive and personality features on affective ratings and perceptions of personal control over events (Reich & Zautra, 1984;Wright, Zautra, & Braver, 1985).…”

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Dynamic Approaches to Emotions and Stress in Everyday Life: Bolger and Zuckerman Reloaded With Positive as Well as Negative Affects

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Journal of Personality

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A decade ago, Bolger and Zuckerman (1995) incorporated personality into the study of daily life events and psychological distress. Their approach put an entirely new cast on research and theorizing in this area. In their work, they focused on the predominantly negative personality trait of Neuroticism. In this article we extend their work to include theory and measurement of positive events and indicators of well-being. Integrating these research strands offers the possibility of a comprehensive yet highly sensitive and dynamic approach to the study of emotions, stress, and health in everyday life.

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Dynamic Approaches to Emotions and Stress in Everyday Life: Bolger and Zuckerman Reloaded With Positive as Well as Negative Affects

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Tennen

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“…Focusing on positive daily events, high mastery may result in stronger increases in well-being because positive events are often sought after and perceived as under one’s own control [ 19 ]. The person is an active agent rather than a passive recipient in the production of positive events [ 51 – 52 ] and this is amplified in the context of childhood trauma.…”

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Childhood Trauma and Personal Mastery: Their Influence on Emotional Reactivity to Everyday Events in a Community Sample of Middle-Aged Adults

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Childhood trauma is associated with premature declines in health in midlife and old age. Pathways that have been implicated, but less studied include social-emotional regulation, biological programming, and habitual patterns of thought and action. In this study we focused on childhood trauma’s influence via alterations in social-emotional regulation to everyday life events, a pathway that has been linked to subsequent health effects. Data from a 30-day daily diary of community residents who participated in a study of resilience in Midlife (n = 191, Mage = 54, SD = 7.50, 54% women) was used to examine whether self-reports of childhood trauma were associated with daily well-being, as well as reported and emotional reactivity to daily negative and positive events. Childhood trauma reports were associated with reporting lower overall levels of and greater variability in daily well-being. Childhood trauma was linked to greater reports of daily negative events, but not to positive events. Focusing on emotional reactivity to daily events, residents who reported higher levels of childhood trauma showed stronger decreases in well-being when experiencing negative events and also stronger increases in well-being with positive events. For those reporting childhood trauma, higher levels of mastery were associated with stronger decreases in well-being with negative events and stronger increases in well-being with positive events, suggesting that mastery increases sensitivity to daily negative and positive events. Our results suggest that childhood trauma may lead to poorer health in midlife through disturbances in the patterns of everyday life events and responses to those events. Further, our findings indicate that mastery may have a different meaning for those who experienced childhood trauma. We discuss social-emotional regulation as one pathway linking childhood trauma to health, and psychosocial resources to consider when building resilience-promoting interventions for mitigating the detrimental health effects of childhood trauma.

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“…It should not be considered a unidimensional, bipolar positivenegative condition (Bradburn, 1969;Diener & Emmons, 1985;Herzberg, 1966;Lawton, 1983a;Reich & Zautra, 1981Zautra & Simons, 1979). With two affect systems operating, the differential impact of the two types of event transactions (demands and desires) on those systems might be expected and has been found in research on groups of young-and middle-aged adults (Reich & Zautra, 1984;Zautra & Reich, 1980;Zeiss, Lewinsohn, & Munoz, 1979). In general, these investigators found that experiencing desired events increases positive aspects of well-being but has little effect on reducing negative affect; conversely, demand transactions are associated with negative affect but only inconsistently with positive aspects of wellbeing.…”

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Activity, event transactions, and quality of life in older adults.

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1987

Psychology and Aging

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A multidimensional assessment of activity and subjective well-being based on a cognitive model of event causation was tested in a sample of 60 older adults. Activity was conceptualized as involving the occurrence of an event, the presence or absence of a response to that event, and the hedonic tone of the outcome of that transaction. Events were categorized as to whether the environment or the individual initiated them: demands or desires, respectively. Well-being was conceptualized as having two independent components, positive and negative, assessed by positive and negative mood scales and general well-being and quality-of-life scales. Analyses showed that older adults who were responsive to events reported more positive well-being, but high responding was also associated with negative aspects of well-being. Demands interacted with desire responding and outcome; affective outcomes of desired actions were significantly influenced by the occurrence of demand events. Results are interpreted in an expanded model of activity theory.

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Daily event causation: An approach to elderly life quality

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Dynamic Approaches to Emotions and Stress in Everyday Life: Bolger and Zuckerman Reloaded With Positive as Well as Negative Affects

Dynamic Approaches to Emotions and Stress in Everyday Life: Bolger and Zuckerman Reloaded With Positive as Well as Negative Affects

Childhood Trauma and Personal Mastery: Their Influence on Emotional Reactivity to Everyday Events in a Community Sample of Middle-Aged Adults

Activity, event transactions, and quality of life in older adults.

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