Personality and daily experience revisited.
In this introduction to the Journal of Personality special issue devoted to "Advances in Personality and Daily Experience" we attempt to trace recent progress in the study of personality and daily life. We begin by comparing and contrasting the methods of daily experience research adopted by investigators who authored empirical articles in the 1991 and current special issues according to the mode, schedule, and sampling frame for data collection. We then compare data analytic strategies across the 14 years between the two special issues and conclude that although the nature of the questions addressed has not changed dramatically, newer analytic methods and associated software have enhanced our ability to answer these questions more precisely. Finally, we provide an overview of the special issue contributions organized around three broad themes: personal vulnerabilities and resources that predict reactions to everyday events, interpersonal manifestations of personality in daily experience, and how personality in daily life affects physical and mental health and relates to disease risk.
Tennen
Howard
H
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA. tennen@nso1.uchc.edu
Affleck
Glenn
G
Armeli
Stephen
S
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D008603:Mental Health; D010551:Personality