Daily psychological adjustment and the planfulness of day-to-day behavior

Over the course of 21 days, participants provided measures of how carefully they had planned their social and achievement-related activities for each day and how well these plans had been realized. They also provided measures of their psychological adjustment. Compared to participants who were not at-risk for depression, participants who were at-risk planned activities less carefully and their plans were realized less fully. The daily psychological adjustment of all participants was higher on days when their plans were realized more fully than on days when their plans were realized less fully; the size of this relationship did not differ as a function of participants' risk for depression.