Participants include respondents from the second wave of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE II, N = 1,931), one of the in-depth satellite studies from the National Survey of Midlife in the United States (MIDUS II; Friedman, Williams, Singer, & Ryff, 2009). Respondents include a nationally representative subsample of European American men and women aged 35–84 years from across the United States (n = 1,703) and a subsample of African Americans from Milwaukee, WI (n = 228). African American respondents were recruited from Milwaukee, WI due to the city’s high rates of racial segregation (Massey & Denton 1993; Farley & Frey 1994). Areas of Milwaukee were stratified according to the proportion of the population that was African American and by income using data from the 2000 United States Census in order to increase socioeconomic diversity. The characteristics of the Milwaukee sample were comparable to the general population of African Americans in Milwaukee particularly in terms of education and employment (U.S. Census Bureau, 2000).
