Table 2.

Meta-analyses of the associations between everyday life experiences and mental health

		Effect sizes				Publication bias (95% CI), p-value
Predictor	Outcome	k	Zr (95% CI)	p	I2 (%)	Classic fail-safe N	Egger’s regression intercept
Unfavorable everyday life experiences (overall)	Anxiety symptoms	67	0.126(0.084, 0.168)	<0.001	89.7	15410	−0.161(−1.301, 0.978)
	Depressive symptoms	93	0.143(0.090, 0.196)	<0.001	95.2		p=0.781
	Post-traumatic stress symptoms	89	0.199(0.151, 0.247)	<0.001	93.4
	General distress	24	0.542(0.332, 0.752)	<0.001	99.2
	General wellbeing	26	−0.010(−0.121,0.100)	0.853	87.4
Subjective daily stressors	Anxiety symptoms	7	0.115(0.040,0.190)	0.003	61.2	349	1.216 (−0.798, 3.231)
	Depressive symptoms	12	0.023(−0.086,0.132)	0.682	92.4		p=0.230
	Post-traumatic stress symptoms	10	0.182(0.069, 0.296)	0.002	86.3
	General distress	8	0.106(0.019, 0.193)	0.017	88.1
	General wellbeing	5	−0.165(−0.441,0.112)	0.242	83.2
Interpersonal daily stressors	Anxiety symptoms	21	0.158(0.073, 0.202)	<0.001	90.8	16930	−1.728 (−3.166, −0.289)
	Depressive symptoms	30	0.213(0.148, 0.277)	<0.001	92.6		p=0.019
	Post-traumatic stress symptoms	26	0.224(0.150, 0.298)	<0.001	91.6
	General distress	5	0.233(0.026, 0.440)	0.028	91.7
	General wellbeing	8	0.020(−0.298, 0.339)	0.901	92.4
Material daily stressors	Anxiety symptoms	20	0.063(−0.008, 0.135)	0.084	85.9	3966	−1.858(−3.229, −0.487)
	Depressive symptoms	27	0.059(−0.048, 0167)	0.277	94.9		p=0.008
	Post-traumatic stress symptoms	33	0.083(0.021, 0.146)	0.009	88.7
	General distress	2	−0.002(−0.144,0.141)	0.981	80.1
	General wellbeing	7	0.004(−0.155, 0.164)	0.958	67.4
Mixed daily stressors	Anxiety symptoms						1.864 (−2.978, 6.706)
		19	0.190(0.067, 0.314)	0.003	92.9	13450	p=0.446
	Depressive symptoms	24	0.205(0.083, 0.327)	0.001	93.3
	Post-traumatic stress symptoms	20	0.369(0.214, 0.525)	<0.001	96.3
	General distress	9	1.205(0.788,1.623)	<0.001	98.9
	General wellbeing	6	0.050(−0.126, 0.227)	0.577	90.7

Note. k, number of effect sizes; Zr, Fisher’s Z transformed correlation coefficient; CI, confidence interval; I², Higgins I² statistics.