To examine family stressor reactivity we tested the extent to which daily affect and number of physical health symptoms increased or decreased as a function of whether respondents reported experiencing family stressors. In addition, we tested whether race moderated family-stressor related changes in affect and number of physical symptoms. We estimated separate multilevel models with the effects of race and daily family stressors on daily negative affect (NA), positive affect (PA), and number of daily physical symptoms (Symptoms). Each model included the following covariates: age, gender, household income, education, marital status, family support, and family strain. Missing data were handled by estimating models using Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) to maximize cases where complete data were available and minimize the influence of cases with missing data.
