DAILY STRESSOR CONTROL AND AFFECTIVE REACTIONS: THE UNIQUE ROLE OF INTERPERSONAL STRESS

Abstract Perceived control over daily stressors varies across life and stressor domains, but little is known about the function of perceived control as a protective resource for the impact of daily stressors on affective well-being. Using the third wave of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDEIII; N=1,263, Mage=62.62, 57.20% women), we examined how stressor control across domains (interpersonal stress, work and home overloads, network stressors) was associated with both negative and positive emotions on the same-day (i.e., reactivity) and next-day (i.e., residue). Over eight consecutive days, participants reported their daily negative and positive emotions, as well as exposure to and control over stressful experiences. After adjusting for age and gender, two-level multilevel models revealed a protective patterning of stressor control for dampened affective reactions to daily stressors driven by stressor control domains specific to interpersonal interactions (ps