Elizabeth T Kneeland, Mabel Shanahan, Chéla Cunningham, Isabella Lattuada, Jason Moser, Hans S Schroder
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Abstract
Background: One psychological factor that relates to individuals' level of emotional distress and how they view coping with that distress is the mindsets they hold about the nature of emotions and clinical symptoms.
Method: The current study (N = 978 undergraduate students; Mage = 19.01 years, 71.9% female, 68.9% White/Caucasian) used repeated measures General Linear Models (GLMs) and multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) to examine the relationships between mindsets in specific domains - malleability, function, and individual aspects of emotions - and which mindsets in each domain have the strongest relationships with clinical symptoms, treatment attitudes, and treatment preference. This statistical approach allows us to examine the relative strength in the relationships between specific mindsets within a particular domain (e.g., malleability) and study outcomes.
Results: When all mindsets in a specific domain (e.g., malleability, function, or specific facet of emotion) were included as simultaneous predictors in analyses, certain mindsets held specific relationships with outcomes. For example, more malleable mindsets about anxiety had the stronger relationships with anxiety symptoms.
Conclusion: The current study clarified that certain mindsets held the strongest relationship with specific outcomes, such as the anxiety malleability mindset with anxiety symptoms, while certain mindsets had equally strong relationships with symptoms and treatment attitudes.
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This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.