Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 17, 2026

Assessing the Effects of Music Listening on Psychobiological Stress in Daily Life
Published on: February 2, 2017
Intraindividual change and variability in daily stress processes: findings from two measurement-burst diary studies
Martin J Sliwinski1, David M Almeida, Joshua Smyth
1Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Gerontology Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. mjs56@psu.edu
Abstract:
There is little longitudinal information on aging-related changes in emotional responses to negative events. In the present article, we examined intraindividual change and variability in the within-person coupling of daily stress and negative affect using data from 2 measurement-burst daily diary studies. Three main findings emerged. First, average reactivity to daily stress increased longitudinally, and this increase was evident across most of the adult lifespan. Second, individual differences in emotional reactivity to daily stress exhibited long-term temporal stability, but this stability was greatest in midlife and decreased in old age. Third, reactivity to daily stress varied reliably within-persons (across-time), with individuals exhibiting higher levels of reactivity during times when reporting high levels of global subject stress in the previous month. Taken together, the present results emphasize the importance of modeling dynamic psychosocial and aging processes that operate across different time scales for understanding age-related changes in daily stress processes.
Related Concept Videos
Introduction to Stress and Lifestyle
Psychological Responses to Stress
Components of Stress
Interestingly, the hidden cube faces also experience these stresses, equal and opposite to those on the...
Types of Stressors
Catastrophes
Catastrophes refer to large-scale, unpredictable events that create overwhelming stress and a sense of threat. Examples include natural disasters like...
General State of Stress
Specifically, consider a tetrahedral element where one face, labeled XYZ, is perpendicular to the line OA, and the remaining faces align with the coordinate axes with point O as the origin. At any point, such as point O, the stress tensor can be used to determine the stress...
Physiological Foundation of Stress
Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System
Adrenaline triggers the...

