Reactivity to Specific Types of Daily Stressors Confer Chronic Disease Risk in Midlife and Later Adulthood

Abstract

Affective responses to stressors (e.g., reactivity) are malleable health risk factors in midlife and later adulthood. Less is known about the specific stressors conferring risk, whether affective responses to stressors confer general health risk, or are specific to certain types of stressors.