Control diversity: How across-domain control beliefs are associated with daily negative affect and differ with age.

ABSTRACT: Domain-specific control beliefs typically buffer the influence stressors have on people's negative affect (affective stressor reactivity). However, little is known about the extent to which individuals' control beliefs vary across stressor types and whether such stressor-related control diversity is adaptive for affective well-being. We thus introduce a control diversity construct (a person-level summary of across-domain control beliefs) and examine how control diversity differs with age and relates to negative affect and affective stressor reactivity. We apply a multilevel model to daily diary data from the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE; N = 2,022; mean age = 56 years; 33-84; 57% women). Our findings indicate that above and beyond average control beliefs, people whose c

SUBMITTER: Drewelies J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6684347 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature