{"title":"Improving stress mindset through education and imagery.","authors":"Sarah E Williams, Annie T Ginty","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2279663","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>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 education and/or imagery delivered virtually in altering stress mindset. Three 3-minute online video interventions: (1) education, (2) imagery, (3) education with imagery were compared to each other and a control comparison.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>Participants (<i>N</i> = 164; 103 = female; <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 20.03, <i>SD = </i>1.39 years) completed the Stress Mindset Measure (SMM) before being randomly assigned to a group to watch a three-minute video and completing the SMM again.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The 2-time × 4-group ANOVA showed a significant time effect, <i>F</i>(1, 158) = 50.45, <i>p</i> < .001, <i>η</i><sub>p</sub><sup>2</sup> = .242, no group effect, <i>F</i>(3, 158) = 0.89, <i>p</i> = .449, <i>η</i><sub>p</sub><sup>2</sup> = .017, and a significant time × group interaction, <i>F</i>(3, 158) = 4.48, <i>p</i> = .005, <i>η</i><sub>p</sub><sup>2 </sup>= .078. All three experimental groups reported greater stress-is-enhancing mindset post-intervention compared to pre-intervention. At post-intervention the education with imagery group had a significantly more stress-is-enhancing mindset compared to the control group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest that online stress mindset videos may be effective with a combined stress education and imagery intervention being most effective.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"419-427"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2279663","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/11/12 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: 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 education and/or imagery delivered virtually in altering stress mindset. Three 3-minute online video interventions: (1) education, (2) imagery, (3) education with imagery were compared to each other and a control comparison.
Design and methods: Participants (N = 164; 103 = female; Mage = 20.03, SD = 1.39 years) completed the Stress Mindset Measure (SMM) before being randomly assigned to a group to watch a three-minute video and completing the SMM again.
Results: The 2-time × 4-group ANOVA showed a significant time effect, F(1, 158) = 50.45, p < .001, ηp2 = .242, no group effect, F(3, 158) = 0.89, p = .449, ηp2 = .017, and a significant time × group interaction, F(3, 158) = 4.48, p = .005, ηp2 = .078. All three experimental groups reported greater stress-is-enhancing mindset post-intervention compared to pre-intervention. At post-intervention the education with imagery group had a significantly more stress-is-enhancing mindset compared to the control group.
Conclusions: Results suggest that online stress mindset videos may be effective with a combined stress education and imagery intervention being most effective.
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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.