TY - JOUR
T1 - Negative affectivity and the reporting of stressful life events.
AU - Brett, J. F.
AU - Brief, A. P.
AU - Burke, M. J.
AU - George, J. M.
AU - Webster, J.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - Maddi, Bartone, and Puccetti (1987) and Schroeder and Costa (1984) reported inconsistent findings regarding the impact of negative affectivity (NA; i.e., neuroticism) contaminated life event items on observed life event-illness relationships. Here, unlike the previous studied, such contaminated items were nonjudgmentally identified. Among a sample of managers and professionals, it was found that NA-contaminated items correlated significantly with three measures of well-being (depression, life satisfaction, and physical symptoms) and that uncontaminated items were unassociated with the well-being indicators. Moreover, in two of three cases, the correlations between contaminated items and the well-being measures were significantly different from the correlations between uncontaminated items and the well-being indicators. Therefore, we concluded that prior life event-well-being findings are inflated considerably by the use of NA-contaminated events. Suggestions for future life events research that incorporate the NA construct are detailed.
AB - Maddi, Bartone, and Puccetti (1987) and Schroeder and Costa (1984) reported inconsistent findings regarding the impact of negative affectivity (NA; i.e., neuroticism) contaminated life event items on observed life event-illness relationships. Here, unlike the previous studied, such contaminated items were nonjudgmentally identified. Among a sample of managers and professionals, it was found that NA-contaminated items correlated significantly with three measures of well-being (depression, life satisfaction, and physical symptoms) and that uncontaminated items were unassociated with the well-being indicators. Moreover, in two of three cases, the correlations between contaminated items and the well-being measures were significantly different from the correlations between uncontaminated items and the well-being indicators. Therefore, we concluded that prior life event-well-being findings are inflated considerably by the use of NA-contaminated events. Suggestions for future life events research that incorporate the NA construct are detailed.
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U2 - 10.1037/0278-6133.9.1.57
DO - 10.1037/0278-6133.9.1.57
M3 - Article
C2 - 2323329
AN - SCOPUS:0025147873
SN - 0278-6133
VL - 9
SP - 57
EP - 68
JO - Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
JF - Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
IS - 1
ER -