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annoy
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hassle | American Dictionary

hassle
noun[ C ]
 infmlus/ˈhæs·əl/
a situation that causes difficulty or trouble, or an argument:
Bad weather was the major hassle during our trip.
I got into a hassle with my father about being late.

hassle

verb[ T ]us/ˈhæs·əl/
infml
The kids keep hassling me about going to Disney World.

Examples of hassle

hassle
Parenting daily hassles, child temperament and social adjustment in preschool.
Widowhood in elderly women : exploring its relationship to community integration, hassles, stress, social support, and social support seeking.
Women who are not worried about their children leaving home experience positive change in mood and less daily hassles when the last child leaves.
Furthermore, the number of challenging life events and daily ' hassles' had the strongest relationship with depressive symptoms.
Maternal ratings of daily hassles and observational measures of parenting were obtained during two home visits when the children were 27 months old.
Two frequently used measures of hassles were combined to provide a more comprehensive index of daily stress.
Possible developmental trends in neighborhood hassles and their relation to trends in antisocial behavior have also not been investigated.
As such, these stressors may resemble daily hassles, with the potential to become chronic if unchecked by active coping strategies.
There is a strong overlap between this concept of cumulative trivia and an established concept in the health psychology literature called daily hassles.
In particular the research is criticized for absenting the social context from our understanding of daily hassles, and for focusing too strongly upon the individual.
The most likely explanation of this contradiction lies in the different definitions of daily hassles.
Stress was operationalized in terms of self-reported daily hassles assessed prior to the observation of parenting.
Parenting daily hassles and relationships among minor stresses, family functioning, and child development.
Major life events, hassles, and adaptation in adolescence: confounding in the conceptualization and measurement of life stress and adjustment revisited.
Both hassles measures yield a frequency and intensity score.
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