title: Coping with daily stress: differential role of spiritual experience on daily positive and negative affect.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  On the global-level, spiritual experiences have been shown to buffer against the negative effects of stress on well-being for older adults, but this global-level analysis may not reflect the day-to-day processes at work. The present project uses a daily paradigm to examine the potential moderating effect of everyday spiritual experience (ESE) on the deleterious impact of a given day's perceived stress (PS) on that day's positive and negative affect (PA/NA).
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 244 older adults aged 55-80 years who completed daily assessments for up to 56 days.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results partially support the moderating hypothesis: ESE buffered the negative effect of PS on same-day NA but had a positive direct effect on same-day PA.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results point to a differential function of ESE-that it serves a coping function for NA but enhances PA directly-in the day-to-day lives of older adults, shedding light on the nuanced role of religiousness and spirituality when it comes to coping with daily stress.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. bjackso7@nd.edu
authors.forename: Brenda R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Whitehead
authors.forename: Cindy S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Bergeman
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D029181:Spirituality; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors