Daily Stressor Appraisals and Subjective Age Predict Daily Affective Ratings.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Stressor appraisals are a transaction between the environment and the individual, such that individuals may appraise a situation as stressful when the problem is greater than the resources available to address it. Stressors appraised as threatening to the way one feels about themselves, their plans for the future, or their own physical health and safety are known to increase negative affect. Appraisal theory frames our predictions regarding the importance of daily contexts and aging processes to understand how stressor appraisals and feelings of aging may be associated with daily affective ratings. We investigated the potential interaction of daily stressors appraisals and daily subjective age on daily negative affect.

Methods

101 younger adults (aged 18-36, M = 1

SUBMITTER: Graham LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12067068 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature