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The associations between repetitive negative thinking, insomnia symptoms, and sleep quality in adults with a history of trauma Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Kimberly A. Arditte Hall, Christopher M. McGrory, Alana M. Snelson, Suzanne L. Pineles
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and sleep disturbance are highly comorbid and repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is associated with both sleep disturbance and PTSD. However, few studies have e...
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A longitudinal person-centered investigation of the multidimensional nature of employees’ perceptions of challenge and hindrance demands at work Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Nicolas Gillet, Alexandre J.S. Morin, Claude Fernet, Stéphanie Austin, Tiphaine Huyghebaert-Zouaghi
This research relies on a combination of variable- and person-centered approaches to help improve our understanding of the dimensionality of job demands by jointly considering employees' global lev...
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The relationship between worry and academic performance: examining the moderating role of attention control Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Alannah B. Horton, Annelise M. Pring, Daniel Rudaizky, Patrick J. F. Clarke
Worry is frequently associated with reduced cognitive performance, through consumption of attention control resources. Assessing attention control during acute worry may better reflect cognitive pe...
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Beyond the mean: examining associations between intraindividual variability in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and posttrauma reckless behaviors Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Brett A. Messman, Sidonia E. Compton, Ifrah Majeed, Nicole H. Weiss, Ateka A. Contractor
Posttrauma reckless behaviors have been linked to the onset and exacerbation of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, PTSD symptoms fluctuate across time, triggered by environment...
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To avoid or not to avoid: impact of self-compassion on safety behaviors in social situations Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kamila A. Szczyglowski, Nancy L. Kocovski
Safety behaviors are commonly used to decrease anxiety in social settings but maintain anxiety. Self-compassion has been shown to reduce anxiety and rumination, but the impact on safety behaviors h...
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The longitudinal relationship between well-being comparisons and anxiety symptoms in the context of uncontrollability of worries and external locus of control: a two-wave study Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Pascal Schlechter, Jens H. Hellmann, Nexhmedin Morina
Anxiety is a prevalent mental health condition. Comparisons of one’s own well-being to different aversive standards may contribute to the development and maintenance of anxiety symptoms.Our primary...
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A coping self-insight scale for adults: development and preliminary psychometric properties Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 M. F. Crane, S. Hoare, M. Kangas, D. F. Gucciardi, E. Karin
Self-insights focused on the coping process are implicated in the refinement of capacities for resilience. To advance this research, we must identify key coping self-insights and develop a concise ...
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Psychological distress and self-reported mental disorders: the partially mediating role of coping strategies Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Jihun Woo, Erum Z. Whyne, Mary A. Steinhardt
Accumulating evidence suggests a substantial prevalence of mental health disorders worldwide and the association between psychological distress and mental disorders. However, the mechanisms underly...
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Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Anthony D. Mancini, Sarah Sowards, Andrea Blumberg, Robert Lynch, Giovanni Fardella, Nicole C. Maewsky, Gabriele Prati
Prolonged media exposure after collective crises is widely shown to have adverse effects on people’s mental health. Do these effects show variation across different countries? In the present study,...
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To reappraise or not to reappraise? Emotion regulation strategies moderate the association of loneliness during COVID-19 with depression and anxiety Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Gal Kaplan, Mario Mikulincer, Karni Ginzburg, Avi Ohry, Zahava Solomon
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in heightened feelings of loneliness due to lockouts and social restrictions.In the present study, we examined the association of loneliness during the pandemic with ...
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Emotional processing of math-related words in people with math anxiety Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Rocío Linares, Santiago Pelegrina, Rafael Delgado-Rodríguez
Research exploring emotional responses to math-related words in individuals with math anxiety (MA) is scarce. Here, we examined MA participants’ subjective emotional processing of math-related cues...
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Daily interpersonal conflicts and daily negative and positive affect: exploring the moderating role of neuroticism Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jørn Hetland, Arnold B. Bakker, Morten B. Nielsen, Roar Espevik, Olav Kjellevold Olsen
Drawing on affective events theory, the present study investigates relationships between daily interpersonal conflicts and negative and positive affective reactions, and tested whether trait neurot...
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Disengagement coping and sleep problems among trauma-exposed adolescents Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Linda Thompson, Alexandria Baker, Isamar Almeida, Danica Slavish, Heidemarie Blumenthal
The formation of healthy sleep patterns is a critical component of positive adolescent development. Dysregulated sleep habits can put youth at risk for the development of a multitude of inimical ou...
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How is variability in physiological responses to social stress related to punishment and reward sensitivities? Preliminary findings from the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality perspective Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Ömer Taha Sözer, Çiğdem Dereboy, İpek İzgialp
Although personality traits are assumed to have biological/physiological foundations, research has yielded mixed evidence regarding the relationship between personality and physiological stress res...
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Anxiety in a COVID-19 school year context: three-way longitudinal study on Slovenian adolescent sample Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Ana Kozina
We investigated the trajectories of anxiety, general anxiety and more specifically COVID-19 anxiety in the period of school closure in Slovenia using a longitudinal design with three time points: a...
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Sources of stress among domestic and international students: a cross-sectional study of university students in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Yagmur Amanvermez, Eirini Karyotaki, Pim Cuijpers, Marketa Ciharova, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronald C. Kessler, Anke M. Klein, Reinout W. Wiers, Leonore M. de Wit
High perceived stress is associated with psychological and academic difficulties among college students. In this study, we aimed to investigate associations of student status (international vs dome...
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A long and resilient life: the role of coping strategies and variability in their use in lifespan among women Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Lewina O. Lee, Anne-Josée Guimond, Ruijia Chen, Peter James, Hayami K. Koga, Harold H. Lee, Sakurako S. Okuzono, Francine Grodstein, Janet Rich-Edwards, Laura D. Kubzansky
Associations of stress-related coping strategies with lifespan among the general population are understudied. Coping strategies are characterized as being either adaptive or maladaptive, but it is ...
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A stress-is-enhancing mindset is associated with lower traumatic stress symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Sarah E. Williams, Annie T. Ginty
A stress-is-enhancing mindset is associated with lower perceived stress and better coping. However, work examining the prospective associations of stress mindset on perceived traumatic stress sympt...
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Improving stress mindset through education and imagery Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Sarah E. Williams, Annie T. Ginty
Research suggests interventions such as education and imagery can elicit a greater stress-is-enhancing mindset. The present study examined the individual and combined effect of stress-is-enhancing ...
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Perceived stress moderates emotion regulation success in real-world contexts: an ecologically-valid multilevel investigation Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Pauline N. Goodson, Richard B. Lopez, Bryan T. Denny
Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in well-being in everyday life. Effective emotion regulation depends upon adaptively matching a given strategy to a given situation. Recent research has begu...
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A brief nonattachment intervention based on the three marks of existence: development, rationale, and initial evidence Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Robert J. Klein, Brody Terry, Michael D. Robinson
The practices described in Buddhist philosophy are essentially a suite of non-theistic cognitive and behavioral interventions designed to induce nonattachment (N-A), which can be defined in terms o...
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An examination of worry and self-distancing as coping strategies for anxiety-provoking experiences in individuals high in worry Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Jenna L. Vieira, Bailee L. Malivoire, Naomi Koerner, David Sumantry
This preliminary online study investigated the short-term effects of self-distancing, worry, and distraction on anxiety and worry-related appraisals among individuals high in worry.N = 104 communit...
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Associations between mindfulness and mental health after collective trauma: results from a longitudinal, representative, probability-based survey Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Jay Andrew Lorenzini, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Dana Rose Garfin
Trait mindfulness (TM) may protect against post-trauma mental health ailments and related impairment. Few studies have evaluated this association in the context of collective traumas using represen...
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Everyday emotion, naturalistic life stress, and the prospective prediction of adolescent depression Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Lisa R. Starr, Angela C. Santee, Katharine K. Chang, Gwyneth A. L. DeLap
Increasing research underscores low positive emotion (PE) as a vital component of depression risk in adolescence. Theory also suggests that PE contributes to adaptive coping. However, it is unclear...
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There’s no place like dorm: actual-ideal dorm ambiance as a unique predictor of undergraduate mental health Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Benjamin R. Meagher, Brynn Anderson
Undergraduate students are a high risk population for mental health challenges. Critically, residing in a setting that fails to evoke desired emotions and perceptions may have important implication...
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Female students’ personality and stress response to an academic examination Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Sara Garces-Arilla, Camino Fidalgo, Magdalena Mendez-Lopez, Jorge Osma, Teresa Peiro, Alicia Salvador, Vanesa Hidalgo
Women are vulnerable to stress-related disorders. Examinations are a source of stress, triggering emotional, cognitive, and hormonal responses. We examined women’s psychological and hormonal stress...
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Focused on the negative: emotions and visuospatial attention in generalized anxiety disorder Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Eyal Kalanthroff
Global-local visuospatial attention is a core mechanism which highly affects the way we process our visuospatial environment. The current study aimed to examine the effect of negative emotions on g...
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Cognitive predictors of stress-induced mood malleability in depression Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Ragnhild Bø, Brage Kraft, Jutta Joormann, Rune Jonassen, Catherine J. Harmer, Nils Inge Landrø
Basic attentional control, negative biases in attention and interpretation, and rumination are all cognitive processes associated with depression; however, less is known about their predictive role...
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A qualitative exploration of how lifetime stressor exposure influences sport performers’ health, well-being, and performance Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Ella McLoughlin, Rachel Arnold, Lee J. Moore, George M. Slavich, David Fletcher
Recent research has shown that lifetime stressor exposure can negatively impact sport performers. However, this work has predominantly relied on quantitative methods, which has provided limited inf...
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Big ideas series: self-regulation shift theory: trauma, suicide, and violence Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Charles C. Benight, Julie A. Hurd, Margaret Morison, Bernard P. Ricca
Traumatic stress, suicide, and impulsive violence arguably are three of the most consequential problems facing societies today. Self-regulation shift theory is introduced to capture the underlying ...
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Learning to embrace one’s stress: the selective effects of short videos on youth’s stress mindsets Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Audrey-Ann Journault, Rebecca Cernik, Sandrine Charbonneau, Claudia Sauvageau, Charles-Édouard Giguère, Jeremy P. Jamieson, Isabelle Plante, Steve Geoffrion, Sonia J. Lupien
Stress is not inherently negative. As youth will inevitably experience stress when facing the various challenges of adolescence, they can benefit from developing a stress-can-be-enhancing mindset r...
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Evaluating the mental health status, help-seeking behaviors, and coping strategies of Canadian essential workers versus non-essential workers during COVID-19: a longitudinal study Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Nisali Muthumuni, Jordana L. Sommer, Renée El-Gabalawy, Kristin A. Reynolds, Natalie P. Mota
ABSTRACT Objective This study examined mental health symptoms, help-seeking, and coping differences between Canadian essential workers (EWs) versus non-EWs, as well as common COVID-related concerns and longitudinal predictors of mental health symptoms among EWs only. Design An online, longitudinal survey (N = 1260; response rate (RR) = 78.5%) assessing mental health and psychosocial domains amongst
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Autonomic reactivity during acute social stress: exploratory investigation of an interaction by threat interpretation bias and emotion regulation difficulties Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Araceli Gonzalez, Michelle Rozenman, Pauline Goger, Sarah E. Velasco
Objective: This preliminary study examined the interactive influences of interpretation bias and emotion dysregulation in predicting autonomic stress response.Methods: Participants (N = 72 college ...
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Do savoring beliefs predict posttraumatic stress symptoms following stressful life events? Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Paul A. Boelen
Savoring beliefs refer to people’s beliefs about their ability to generate, increase, and prolong enjoyment from positive experiences. The role of these beliefs in affecting responses to negative e...
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An exploratory domain analysis of deployment risks and protective features and their association to mental health, cognitive functioning and job performance in military personnel Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 M. F. Crane, G. Hazel, A. Kunzelmann, M. Kho, D. F. Gucciardi, T. Rigotti, R. Kalisch, E. Karin
Meta-analyses of military deployment involve the exploration of focused associations between predictors and peri and post-deployment outcomes.We aimed to provide a large-scale and high-level perspe...
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The mental health of non-commissioned soldiers deployed to Boko-Haram zones in Nigeria: Examining the roles of rank and other armed service characteristics Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Charles Sunday Umeh, Babatola Dominic Olawa, James Abel
This study examined the roles of rank and its interaction with armed service characteristics, including combat exposure, frequency of deployments, and length of service on psychological distress am...
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Evidence that specific personal relationships evoke maladaptive personality expression Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Rae Lutz, Brian Lakey
This research applied relational regulation theory (RRT) to maladaptive personality as identified in the DSM-5, dimension trait model. RRT describes how individual social network members help peopl...
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Coping strategy-situation fit vs. present control: relations with perceived stress in U.S. college students Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Abby I. Person, Patricia A. Frazier
According to the strategy-situation fit hypothesis, it is adaptive to match coping strategies to the controllability of stressors. Although early research generally supported this hypothesis, recen...
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Random intercept cross-lagged relations among trauma coping self-Efficacy, trauma coping, and PTSD symptoms among rural hurricane survivors Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Heather Littleton, Michael L. Dolezal, Ashley Batts Allen, Charles C. Benight
The trajectories of recovery and non-recovery following a disaster are well-documented, but the mechanisms of post-disaster adaptation remain poorly understood. Rooted in social cognitive theory an...
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The mediating role of coping self-efficacy on social support and PTSD symptom severity among injury survivors Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Kriszha A. Sheehy, Bryce Hruska, Edward E. Waldrep, Maria L. Pacella-LaBarbara, Richard L. George, Charles C. Benight, Douglas L. Delahanty
ABSTRACT Background Social support confers a protective effect against elevated PTSD symptomatology following injury. However, little is known about the mechanisms through which social support conveys this protective mental health effect in injury survivors. Coping self-efficacy is linked to both social support and PTSD symptomatology but has not been examined. Objective To test coping self-efficacy
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Investigating the effectiveness of instructing emotion regulation flexibility to individuals with low and high anxiety Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-04-30 Philippa Specker, Angela Nickerson
Psychopathology has been associated with a deficit in emotion regulation (ER) flexibility – the ability to flexibly utilize ER strategies that are appropriate to situational demands. Yet, whether a...
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Regulating emotions with experience – the effectiveness of reappraisal inventiveness depends on situational familiarity Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Peter Zeier, Magdalena Sandner, Michèle Wessa
Previous research identified cognitive reappraisal as an adaptive emotion regulation strategy. However, theories on emotion regulation flexibility suggest that reappraisal effectiveness (RE) may de...
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Resting respiratory sinus arrythmia and cognitive reappraisal moderate the link between political climate stress and anxiety symptoms in Latina and Black mothers Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Molly E. Hale, Andrea M. George, Margaret O. Caughy, Cynthia Suveg
Guided by the Family Stress Model for minority families, the present study examined the potential buffering effect of resting respiratory sinus arrythmia (RRSA), cognitive reappraisal, and mindfuln...
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Disentangling trait and daily experiences of uncertainty and meaning in life: implications for daily anxiety, negative affect, and somatic symptoms Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Jessica L. Morse, Gloria Luong, Mark A. Prince, Michael F. Steger
Although there is growing evidence supporting the association between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and psychopathology, little is known about the covariation of IU and psychological distress day...
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Facial infrared thermography as an index of social anxiety Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 Jesús Fernández, Javier Albayay, Germán Gálvez-García, Oscar Iborra, Carmen Huertas, Emilio Gómez-Milán, Vicente E. Caballo
Previous research on physiological indices of social anxiety has offered unclear results. In this study, participants with low and high social anxiety performed five social interaction tasks while ...
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Can the positive buffer the negative? Testing the impact of protective childhood experiences on adjustment in adults following trauma exposure Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Tam N.M. Nguyen, David J. Disabato, John Gunstad, Douglas L. Delahanty, Richard George, Farid Muakkassa, Ali F. Mallat, Karin G. Coifman
It is unclear if protective childhood experiences (PCEs), like emotional support and economic stability, exert influence on adulthood adjustment. Prior research suggests PCEs can promote childhood ...
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Two sides of the same coin: motivating and demotivating mediation paths of time pressure and their relationship with strain Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Anja Baethge, Ann-Kristin Menhardt, Yannick Frontzkowski, Miriam Schilbach
Time pressure, commonly categorized a challenge stressor, consistently and positively relates to employees’ experience of strain. However, regarding its relationship with motivational outcomes such...
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The role of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety on compulsive exercise in adolescents Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Cristina Cuesta-Zamora, Jorge Javier Ricarte, Laura Ros, José Miguel Latorre, Carolyn Plateau
ABSTRACT Background and objectives The role of anxiety as a risk factor for compulsive exercise elements among adolescents is unclear. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), which is a risk feature for anxiety and eating disorders, may be an important, unexplored risk factor for compulsive exercise dimensions. This study aimed to examine the role of IU dimensions and anxiety on compulsive exercise elements
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A stress mindset manipulation can affect speakers’ articulation rate Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Jessica Baynard-Montague, Lori E. James
ABSTRACT Background and Objective Mindsets about stress can be altered so that people interpret stress as either a positive or negative force. We exposed participants to a stress mindset intervention to test its effects on a challenging speech production task. Design and Method Participants (N = 60) were randomly assigned to a stress mindset condition. In the stress-is-enhancing (SIE) condition, they
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Associations between self-care practices and psychological adjustment of mental health professionals: a two-wave cross-lagged analysis Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Pascale Brillon, Michelle Dewar, Alison Paradis, Frederick Philippe
ABSTRACT Cultivation of self-care is believed to foster more well-being and to mitigate the psychological difficulties that mental health professionals experience. However, how the well-being and psychological distress of these professionals impact their personal self-care practice is rarely discussed. In fact, studies have yet to investigate whether the use of self-care improves mental health, or
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Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Alexandra Werntz, Brian A. O’Shea, Gustav Sjobeck, Jennifer Howell, Kristen P. Lindgren, Bethany A. Teachman
ABSTRACT Background Given the sensitive nature of COVID-19 beliefs, evaluating them explicitly and implicitly may provide a fuller picture of how these beliefs vary based on identities and how they relate to mental health. Objective Three novel brief implicit association tests (BIATs) were created and evaluated: two that measured COVID-19-as-dangerous (vs. safe) and one that measured COVID-19 prec
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Test anxiety and reading comprehension: the key role of fluid reasoning Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Allison M. Sylvia, Paula K. Shear, Kristen E. Jastrowski Mano, Julia M. Guerin, Quintino R. Mano
ABSTRACT Background High test anxiety has been associated with poorer academic performance. Test anxiety may affect academic performance by disrupting cognitive processes required for complex academic tasks, such as reading comprehension. Objectives and Method The objective of this cross-sectional study was to clarify the cognitive pathways through which test anxiety may affect reading comprehension
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Encouraging inflated reports of posttraumatic growth: the presence of a wording effect on self-reports of posttraumatic growth Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Adriel Boals, Samantha Diane Glidewell
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Posttraumatic growth (PTG) refers to positive psychological changes that result from a traumatic experience. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) and the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS) are the two most commonly used measures of PTG. One criticism of these measures is that all their items are positively worded (for example, “I have a greater feeling of self-reliance”)
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Cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression and mindfulness in adaptation to bereavement: a longitudinal study Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Maarten C. Eisma, Antje Janshen, Lukas F. T. Huber, Maya J. Schroevers
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies increase prolonged grief and depressive symptoms following bereavement. However, less is known about the role of adaptive emotion regulation strategies in adaptation to loss. Therefore, we examined the concurrent and longitudinal associations of three putative adaptive emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal,
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Longitudinal pathways between suicidal ideation and life stress Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Amanda A. Uliaszek, Kevin Hamdullahpur, Maya E. Amestoy, Michael Carnovale
ABSTRACT While much research exists linking stress and suicidality in cross-sectional paradigms, little is known regarding the longitudinal interplay of stress and suicidality across time. In addition, less research exists on suicidal ideation – a transdiagnostic precursor to suicidal behavior. Two competing, though not mutually exclusive, explanations relate to stress exposure, where stress causes
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Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduces anxiety and improves motor performance efficiency under stress Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Emma C. Wolfe, Andrew G. Thompson, Tad T. Brunyé, F. Caroline Davis, Daniel Grover, Zachary Haga, Thomas Doyle, Anjali Goyal, Hannah Shaich, Heather L. Urry
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives We examined the effects of ultra-brief training in mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal on affective response and performance under stress. We hypothesized that one or both types of training would decrease affective responding and improve performance, and that these effects might be moderated by acute stress induction. Design We manipulated training (mindfulness
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Trait mindfulness, self-efficacy, and coping strategies during COVID-19 Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Sandra Schmiedeler, Alina Reichhardt, Leonie Schneider, Frank Niklas
ABSTRACT Background The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic may have negative impacts on individuals’ mental health. At the same time, protective factors such as mindfulness, i.e., a moment-to-moment awareness of own experiences without judgment, may have positive effects on various psychological outcomes during the pandemic. Objectives The current study analyzed the associations between trait mindfulness
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Does perceived post-traumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic reflect actual positive changes? Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Crystal L. Park, Joshua A. Wilt, Beth S. Russell, Michael Fendrich
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives People commonly report positive changes following stressful experiences (perceived posttraumatic growth; PPTG), yet whether PPTG validly reflects positive changes remains unestablished. Design and Methods We tested the extent to which COVID-19 pandemic-related PPTG relates to positive changes in corresponding psychosocial resources in a national US sample participating
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Life meaning and mental health in post-9/11 veterans: the mediating role of perceived stress Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Katherine E. Gnall, Shane J. Sacco, Crystal L. Park, Carolyn M. Mazure, Rani A. Hoff
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Post-9/11 veterans frequently experience diminished mental health following military service. Life meaning is related to better mental health in veterans, yet its mechanism of action is unknown. A meaning-making model suggests that life meaning can reduce perceived stress, thus enhancing mental health. The present study tested this meaning-making model by predicting
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Evaluating an online self-distancing intervention to promote emotional regulation and posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic Anxiety, Stress & Coping (IF 3.813) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Saurenne Deleuil, Alexander J. Mussap
ABSTRACT Objectives Three online studies were conducted to elucidate the role of emotional regulation (ER) in posttraumatic growth (PTG), evaluate the ability of an online self-distancing intervention to achieve ER, and test whether increasing the use of ER strategies promotes PTG. Design Cross-sectional (Study 1) and longitudinal randomized controlled trials (RCT) (Studies 2 and 3). Method In Study