Abstract
There are pronounced individual differences in the extent to which affective responses are associated with daily stressor exposure. These individual differences have implications for health and well-being. We use 21 days of daily diary data in 167 participants (mean age = 25.37, SD = 7.34; 81.44% women) and test (1) the moderating effect of flourishing on daily stressor-related negative mood and (2) the moderating effect of daily curiosity on daily stressor-related negative mood. Results indicate that people high in flourishing show lower stressor-related negative mood and that stressor-related negative mood is higher than usual on days of lower than usual curiosity. Together, these findings extend a large body of work indicating associations between stressor-related negative mood and both psychopathology and poor physical health to trait and state markers of well-being.
Highlights
Stressors come in a variety of forms, including major life events such as bereavement or marital separation (Holmes & Rahe, 1967) and everyday hassles such as arguments with family members or deadlines at work (Almeida, 2005)
Hypothesis 1 We hypothesized a negative association between daily stressor-related negative mood and flourishing, such that daily stressor-related negative mood would be lower in people who are high versus low in flourishing
Hypothesis 1: Associations Between Flourishing and Daily Stressor‐Related Negative Mood We tested the hypothesis that daily stressor-related negative mood would be lower in people high in flourishing
Summary
Stressors come in a variety of forms, including major life events such as bereavement or marital separation (Holmes & Rahe, 1967) and everyday hassles such as arguments with family members or deadlines at work (Almeida, 2005). There are pronounced individual differences in the extent to which negative affective responses are associated with daily stressor exposure (Gunthert et al, 1999; Koffer et al, 2019). These individual differences in stressor-related negative affect (Stawski et al, 2019), a term that captures the association between fluctuations in stressor exposure and fluctuations in negative affect, are associated with both concurrent and long-term mental and physical health difficulties (Charles et al, 2013; Leger et al, 2018; Myin-Germeys et al, 2003; Peeters et al, 2003). We examine daily stressor-related negative mood and examine its associations with flourishing and daily curiosity
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