Too little, too much, and "just right": Exploring the "goldilocks zone" of daily stress reactivity.

ABSTRACT: Hormetic models of stress resilience describe nonlinear relations for exposure to adversity and health outcomes, where exposure induces salutary changes up to a threshold, with changes becoming deleterious afterward. Here we apply a hormetic model of stress to reactivity to daily stressors, examining whether mental and physical health benefits arise from low-to-moderate reactivity but then decrease at higher levels. Data are from the second wave of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE). Adults (N = 2,022; M_age = 58.61, SD = 12.12, age range: 35-86; 57% female) completed telephone interviews detailing their stressors and affect on eight consecutive evenings. A series of multilevel structural equation models estimated within-person associations betwee

SUBMITTER: Rush J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12097751 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature