The Circumplex Model of Stress: A model integrating stress appraisal constructs

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

New Ideas in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101163

Krzysztof Stanisławski

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Abstract

Unraveling the structure of stress appraisal constructs is essential for a comprehensive understanding of how stress influences human health and well-being. The current paper presents the Circumplex Model of Stress (CMS), which is designed to organize the various stress appraisal categories and offers possibilities for resolving selected problems in stress psychology. The CMS posits that the space of stress appraisal forms is described by two dimensions: Controllability vs. Uncontrollability and Mitigation vs. Threat. These dimensions define a matrix within which other stress appraisal forms are located: Challenge vs. Hopelessness and Manageable pressure vs. Illusory relief. The model identifies eight stress appraisal forms constituting a circumplex: Mitigation, Challenge, Controllability, Manageable pressure, Threat, Hopelessness, Uncontrollability, and Illusory relief. The CMS provides an avenue for addressing certain unresolved questions in stress psychology by: (a) offering a theoretically meaningful integration of various stress appraisal constructs; (b) providing a comprehensive explanation of the relationships between stress appraisals and coping; and (c) elucidating the links between stress appraisals and health behaviors, which in turn may help modify health behaviors.

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应力环形模型：一个综合应力评价结构的模型

揭示压力评估结构对于全面理解压力如何影响人类健康和福祉至关重要。本论文提出了压力的环形模型（CMS），该模型旨在组织各种压力评估类别，并为解决压力心理学中的选定问题提供可能性。CMS认为压力评估表单的空间由两个维度来描述：可控性与不可控性和缓解与威胁。这些维度定义了其他压力评估形式所在的矩阵：挑战vs绝望，可控压力vs虚幻缓解。该模型确定了构成一个圆环的八种压力评估形式：缓解、挑战、可控性、可控压力、威胁、无望、不可控性和虚幻缓解。CMS为解决压力心理学中某些未解决的问题提供了一个途径：(a)提供了一个理论上有意义的各种压力评估结构的整合；(b)全面解释压力评估与应对之间的关系；(c)阐明压力评估与健康行为之间的联系，从而有助于改变健康行为。

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期刊介绍： New Ideas in Psychology is a journal for theoretical psychology in its broadest sense. We are looking for new and seminal ideas, from within Psychology and from other fields that have something to bring to Psychology. We welcome presentations and criticisms of theory, of background metaphysics, and of fundamental issues of method, both empirical and conceptual. We put special emphasis on the need for informed discussion of psychological theories to be interdisciplinary. Empirical papers are accepted at New Ideas in Psychology, but only as long as they focus on conceptual issues and are theoretically creative. We are also open to comments or debate, interviews, and book reviews.