Understanding Daily Hassles and Uplifts: Impact on Mood, Stress, and Well-being
Explore the concept of daily hassles and uplifts, their emotional effects, and how they can impact our well-being. Discover how positive events can counteract hassles, lower stress levels, and improve performance based on research with nurses. Learn about the Hassles & Uplifts Scale and the role of appraisal and coping in managing daily stresses.
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Daily Hassles and Uplifts Daily Hassles and Uplifts 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Learning objectives To define daily hassles and uplifts To understand the impact of these on mood, stress and illness To find out why daily hassles are worse for your health than Life Changes 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
What are daily hassles and uplifts? UPLIFTS HASSLES The relatively minor frustrations and annoyances of everyday life Their emotional effects are fairly short lived But if they accumulate over a period of time this could affect our well-being this could result in more serious stress reactions such as anxiety and depression Positive events that occur in the course of the day They could counteract the negative effects of hassles and help lower our stress levels and improve our performance 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Research with nurses (Gervais, 2005) Nurses were asked to keep diaries for a month, recording daily hassles and uplifts connected with their job. They were also asked to rate their own performance over this period. It was found that the nurses often found that the uplifts counteracted the negative effects of their daily hassles, and helped improve their performance and lower stress levels. 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Then again... everything is relative! 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
The Hassles & Uplifts Scale (HSUP) The HSUP measures respondents attitudes about daily situations defined as "hassles" and "uplifts." Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award Instead of focusing on highly charged life events, the HSUP provides a comfortable way to evaluate positive and negative events that occur in each person's daily life. Professor Richard Lazarus (1922-2002) Appraisal Coping 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Hassles, uplifts, appraisal, and coping Dr Gary Wood Psychology 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Activity Half the class: in a group, brainstorm a list of your top ten daily hassles. Other half: in a group, brainstorm a list of your top ten daily uplifts. Rank them in order (1 being the worst hassle or best uplift) . 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Top 10 hassles and uplifts for an Undergraduate sample (2001) Top 10 uplifts Top 10 hassles 1. Troubling thoughts about the future 2. Not getting enough sleep 3. Wasting time 4. Inconsiderate smokers 5. Physical appearance 6. Too many things to do 7. Misplacing or losing things 8. Not enough time to do the things you need to do 9. Entertainment 10. Being lonely 1. Completing a task 2. Relating well with friends 3. Giving a present 4. Having fun 5. Getting love 6. Giving love 7. Being visited, phoned, or sent a letter (this was before Facebook) 8. Laughing 9. Concerns about meeting high standards 10. Music 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Research Scores on the HSUP scale correlate with anxiety, depression and health problems For example, the HSUP score could be correlated with a score on the Depression Inventory Scale (used by doctors to diagnose depression) Research with students starting university showed that they were more depressed during their first term and that this correlated with scores on the hassles scale 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
Trying out the HSUP questionnaire Add up your scores for both hassles and uplifts. Select a suitable type of graph to present this data in. Now rate your psychological wellbeing and your school performance at the moment, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. Add this information underneath your graph. What does the data suggest? 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
HW: Why are daily hassles so stressful? Use the textbook p. 148 to do the following: What do these two terms mean: - Accumulation effect? - Amplification effect? Give detailed examples of both, using the material in the textbook. Explain why lack of social support is an issue. 11/06/2025 K Christopher La Retraite School
