title: Is leisure time availability associated with more or less severe daily stressors? An examination using eight-day diary data.
abstract: The stress suppressing model proposes that sufficient resources reduce stress. The stress exposure model suggests that certain factors expose individuals tomorestress. The current study tested these two models by assessing the within-person lagging effect of leisure time on perceived severity of daily stressors. Analyzing eight-day diary data (N=2,022), we found that having more leisure time than usual on a day reduced perceived severity of daily stressors thenextday and that the decrease in severity became larger with further increase in leisure time. Additionally, the effect is much stronger among busy individuals who usually had little leisure time. The findings demonstrated an accelerated suppressing effect that differed between-person, and the lagging effect affords stronger implication for causality than correlational analysis.
authors.affiliation: Tourism Center University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
authors.forename: Xinyi Lisa
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.affiliation: Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Careen M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Yarnal
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies The Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Almeida
keywords: leisure time; stress exposure; stress severity; stress suppressing; within-person lagging effect