Psychological functioning is shaped by how people navigate their environment. Accordingly, psychopathology is often caused and maintained by patterns of responding to the environment that do not meet situational demands. In particular, psychopathology is often expressed in an inflexible or intense manner of coping with stressful situations. Prior research on psychopathology and daily life stress is limited by an overreliance on negative affect reactivity, which neglects the myriad responses that can create problems in a person's life. In this study, we assessed a broad range of daily manifestations of psychopathology to examine daily psychopathology-stress associations. We conceptualized individual differences in functioning as psychopathology traits and daily fluctuations in the interrelated thoughts, behaviors, and emotions as psychopathology states, with traits and states corresponding to the same domains of functioning (i.e., antagonism, detachment, disinhibition, negative affectivity, anankastia, psychoticism). Data have been taken from two samples enriched for psychopathology (