Ting Zhou, Zihe Lin, Sha Sha, Tengfei Tian, Sixiang Liang, Li Zhou, Qian Wang
{"title":"Cognitive Emotion-Regulation and Depressive Symptoms in a Group of Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Person-Based Approach.","authors":"Ting Zhou, Zihe Lin, Sha Sha, Tengfei Tian, Sixiang Liang, Li Zhou, Qian Wang","doi":"10.1002/smi.70013","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to identify profiles of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and to examine the association between emotion regulation profiles and depressive symptoms using a sample of healthcare workers under the impact of COVID-19. A total of 3477 Chinese healthcare workers participated in the online survey. Latent profile analysis was used to identify cognitive regulation patterns using nine strategies. Depressive symptoms were compared among cognitive regulation patterns. The results yielded three cognitive emotion regulation patterns: regulators with low controllability of emotions and events (RLCEE, 65.5%), regulators with high controllability of emotions and events (RHCEE, 33.0%) and high regulators (HR, 5.4%). The HRs reported the highest level of depression symptoms, followed by the RHCEEs and RLCEEs. The results illustrated a significant association between depressive symptoms and emotion regulation profiles in healthcare workers under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70013"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workplace Violence Is Home Now for Healthcare Workers: Spillover Theory Perspective.","authors":"Wali Ur Rehman, Atif Bilal, Matthew Allen","doi":"10.1002/smi.70008","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, workplace violence has become an escalating concern, particularly within the healthcare sector. Healthcare workers, who dedicate their lives to caring for others, are increasingly facing violence within their workplaces as evidenced by existing studies. However, literature overlooks complex associations between workplace violence, workplace stress, and domestic violence and stress. This article explores the phenomenon of workplace violence among healthcare workers through the lens of Spillover Theory and investigates impact of workplace violence on domestic stress with single and sequential mediation of workplace stress and domestic violence. Our findings of MEDTHREE analysis of time-lagged data indicate that individuals who experience workplace violence are more likely to exhibit stress, which ultimately becomes a cause of domestic violence. The study highlights how spillover theory can help to explain how workplace violence can trigger violence and stress in the home environment. The research highlights the need for a support system and targeted interventions to address the issue of workplace violence to mitigate its spillover effects into domestic violence. With the help of the findings, the organisational decision makers can develop comprehensive strategies to mitigate the harmful consequences of the workplace violence to provide safe and healthy environment at work and home settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70008"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11774484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tattooing Among Combat Soldiers as a Coping Resource With Their Military Service Experiences.","authors":"Keren Cohen-Louck, Yakov Iluz","doi":"10.1002/smi.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to examine how former combat soldiers use tattoos as a coping resource in response to their military service experiences. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight combat soldiers identified two main themes: (a) the military events and distress as a background story of the tattoos; (b) the tattoos' meaning as a coping resource for military service experiences. The thematic analysis revealed two coping resources which the soldiers utilised through tattooing. The first is the emotional-relief coping resource, which allows combat soldiers to express and process their emotions in response to events experienced during their military service, and helps them reduce feelings of stress. The second is the positive-productive coping resource that enhances positive feelings, serves as an empowering, promoting and strengthening resource, and expresses a transformative process of change. The findings also revealed that both of the coping resources were adaptive coping resources. This study contributes to the limited research on tattooing among combat soldiers, expands the knowledge regarding tattoos as a coping resource with military service, and identifies two types of coping resources utilised by combat soldiers. On a practical level, our findings offer insights for interventions aimed at promoting awareness among combat soldiers about the effectiveness of tattooing.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70018"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11807264/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143374938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna E Sundström, Maria Nordin, Steven Nordin, Anna Stigsdotter Neely, Hanna Malmberg Gavelin
{"title":"Dimensionality, Sensitivity and Specificity of Different Versions of the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire/Measure in Clinical and Non-Clinical Populations.","authors":"Anna E Sundström, Maria Nordin, Steven Nordin, Anna Stigsdotter Neely, Hanna Malmberg Gavelin","doi":"10.1002/smi.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire/Measure (SMBQ/SMBM) is a self-report instrument frequently used for assessing degree of burnout and screening for stress-related exhaustion disorder. The aim of the present study was three-fold. First, to examine reliability and construct validity of different versions of SMBM with 6-22 items in a clinical context. Second, to examine the criterion validity by assessing sensitivity and specificity and determining clinical cut-offs for these versions of the SMBM, and third to examine the prevalence of burnout in a general population and primary care sample using the proposed cut-offs. Two Swedish samples were used for the first two purposes: a clinical sample of patients diagnosed with exhaustion disorder (n = 149), and a matched sample of healthy controls (n = 60). For the third purpose a sample from the general population (n = 3406), and a primary care clinical sample (n = 326) was used. The modified versions of the SMBM showed good internal consistency, construct validity, dimensionality and model fit on the clinical exhaustion disorder sample, as well as configural measurement invariance across clinical and non-clinical samples. The sensitivity (94.6%-95.3%) and specificity (93.3%-95.0%) in identifying cases with exhaustion disorder based on the cut-off of 4.0 for the 19-, 16- and 11-items versions, and on the cut-off of 3.75 for the 6-item version was high. The prevalence of burnout was 81.2% in the primary care sample and 16.6% in the general population sample. The findings indicate that the SMBM is a useful instrument for screening for exhaustion disorder and burnout.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70001"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747081/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E de Krijger, P M Ten Klooster, E Geuze, S M Kelders, E T Bohlmeijer
{"title":"Work-Stressors and Depression and Anxiety-A Longitudinal Study of the Moderating Role of Self-Compassion.","authors":"E de Krijger, P M Ten Klooster, E Geuze, S M Kelders, E T Bohlmeijer","doi":"10.1002/smi.70006","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-compassion has been defined as being open to one's suffering, not avoiding or disconnecting from it, coupled with the kind and caring motivation to alleviate one's suffering. There is increasing evidence that self-compassion might function as a buffer against the negative mental health effects of experiencing work-stressors. However, while this moderating role of self-compassion has been demonstrated when measures of subjective stress are used, different studies that use measures of more objective potential stressors failed to demonstrate a moderating role of self-compassion. Furthermore, while cross-sectional studies offer increasing support for this moderation effect of self-compassion, few studies have examined this in longitudinal designs which may provide more robust insight into the role of self-compassion on the relation between work stress experiences and symptoms of depression and anxiety. The aims of the current study were to examine whether self-compassion moderates the concurrent and prospective association between a measure of potential work-stressors and depressive and anxious symptomatology. The method consisted of a longitudinal survey study in a sample of 246 military personnel with three measurements, half a year apart from each other. Latent moderated structural equation modelling was conducted to test the potential moderating effect of self-compassion. Self-compassion was shown to significantly moderate the association between work-stressors and depressive and anxiety symptomatology, both cross-sectionally and prospectively after 6 and 12 months. Specifically, the experience of work-stressors was positively associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety when self-compassion was low and this association became weaker when self-compassion was at a medium or high level. The results of the current study suggest that higher levels of work-related stress covary more strongly with symptoms of depression and anxiety over time in personnel with lower levels of self-compassion.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70006"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11784929/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback to Manage the Mental Health of Adults With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Pilot Study.","authors":"Séphora Minjoz, Rudy Jeanne, Laurent Vercueil, Cécile Sabourdy, Valérie Sinniger, Bruno Bonaz, Pascal Hot, Sonia Pellissier","doi":"10.1002/smi.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Irritable bowel syndrome [IBS] is classified as a disorder of gut-brain interaction related to stress with no curative option. Heart rate variability biofeedback [HRV-BFB] is a non-drug therapy recently suggested to be relevant in reducing both autonomic nervous system [ANS] dysregulations and psychiatric comorbidities. Nevertheless, empirical evidence is still scarce and only a few studies have tested HRV-BFB in adults with IBS. Our aims were therefore to examine the effectiveness of HRV-BFB training on the psychophysiological states of 29 adults with IBS. The study took place in three sessions, spaced 24 days apart. In all sessions, participants completed self-report questionnaires to assess their psychological state (affectivity, anxiety, depression, perceived stress, coping strategy, life satisfaction, illness cognitions), ANS measurements were then recorded of them at rest, during completion of a mental task (reactivity), and while in recovery following this task. The first 24-day period was a control period without any practice, and the second was an intervention period with HRV-BFB. Participants practiced HRV-BFB daily for 5 min, three times a day, for 24 days. We found that HRV-BFB reduced psychological distress and the feeling of helplessness, and led to a decrease in sympathetic reactivity during the mental task. Our findings support the potential relevance of HRV-BFB to manage mental health in adults with IBS.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70015"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143411525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Coping Strategies on Perceived Stress and Hair Cortisol Levels During the COVID-19 Pandemic According to Sex.","authors":"Maryse Arcand, Yasmine Zerroug, Clémence Peyrot, Rebecca Cernik, Catherine M Herba, Marie-France Marin","doi":"10.1002/smi.70012","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 crisis generated subjective and physiological stress, with important interindividual differences. Studies have shown that coping strategies and sex modulate subjective stress, although their effects on stress hormones have been overlooked. In addition, it remains unknown whether sex and coping interact to predict these stress metrics during long-term stressful events. To examine the impact of coping strategies, sex, and their interaction on subjective and physiological indicators of stress during the year following the arrival of the COVID-19 virus. Coping strategies were assessed using the Brief COPE questionnaire in May 2020. Stress symptoms were assessed as a subjective indicator of stress every 3 months (June 2020 to March 2021) with the Perceived Stress Scale questionnaire in 155 participants (49 men). Of these individuals, 111 provided a 6-cm hair sample in June 2020 to estimate cortisol levels as a physiological indicator of stress before and during the first lockdown. A factor analysis identified three clusters of coping strategies: positive-oriented, avoidance-oriented, and social support. For subjective stress, a linear-mixed model showed that women reported more stress than men. Positive-oriented and avoidance-oriented strategies were associated with less and more stress, respectively. An interaction between sex and coping strategies indicated a positive relationship between social support and perceived stress levels in men. However, among men and women who used this strategy infrequently, women reported higher stress levels than men. For physiological stress, a regression revealed that women had greater cortisol secretion in response to the pandemic. These findings suggest that coping and sex modulate subjective stress, whereas sex influences physiological stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70012"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11795019/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143191149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yun-Han Wang, Myanna Duncan, Katherine S Young, Colette Hirsch
{"title":"Modifiable Psychological Mechanisms of Resilience Among UK Trainee and Newly Qualified Teachers.","authors":"Yun-Han Wang, Myanna Duncan, Katherine S Young, Colette Hirsch","doi":"10.1002/smi.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Teaching is identified as a stressful occupation, with elevated levels of burnout among the profession. Research suggests that resilience may buffer against stress and psychological distress and potentially be a useful resource for this occupational group. This research aimed to identify mechanisms associated with trainee teachers' resilience across time. Using the cognitive model of resilience, we examined interpretation bias and emotion regulation as cognitive mechanisms associated with resilience. The study investigated whether these cognitive processes have an association with trainee teachers' resilience during teacher training and in the first year as teachers in two 1-year longitudinal online studies. Study 1 commenced before COVID-19 pandemic (September 2019), but ended during ongoing pandemic-related restrictions. Study 2 was conducted as a replication study, commenced during COVID-19 (May 2020). Resilience, short-term stress, chronic perceived stress, and cognitive mechanisms (interpretation bias, emotion regulation) were assessed at baseline (during teacher training), with resilience and short-term stress monitored at the 8-month and 13-month follow-ups. Across both studies, cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships were found between perceived stress, cognitive mechanisms, and resilience. Positive interpretation bias predicted trainee teachers' resilience across time, suggesting that it is likely to be a good target for interventions to promote resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70005"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11750056/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily Taverna, Katherine M Iverson, Shaina A Kumar, Dawne Vogt, Karen S Mitchell
{"title":"Beyond Physical and Mental Health: The Broader Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence on Psychosocial Well-Being Among Women and Men Veterans.","authors":"Emily Taverna, Katherine M Iverson, Shaina A Kumar, Dawne Vogt, Karen S Mitchell","doi":"10.1002/smi.3526","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.3526","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on the consequences of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) has predominantly focused on specific physical and mental health outcomes and have emphasized the impacts for women. Fewer studies have comprehensively documented IPV impacts on other aspects of psychosocial well-being and examined effects for both women and men. A sample of 1133 veterans (52.3% women) completed two web-based surveys approximately one year apart. Women did not differ from men with respect to their odds of experiencing past year overall IPV (OR = 1.06, 95% CI [0.81, 1.38]) but were more likely to experience overall IPV prior to the past year (OR = 1.52, 95% CI [1.19, 1.95]). Gender-stratified multivariate regressions revealed that greater frequency of past year IPV experiences was associated with lower psychosocial well-being with respect to finances (β = -0.22, p < 0.001), health (β = -0.19, p < 0.001), intimate relationships (β = -0.14, p = 0.007), and broader social relationships (β = -0.17, p = 0.018), whereas greater frequency of IPV prior to the past year was associated with lower psychosocial well-being with respect to employment (β = -0.17, p = 0.002), finances (β = -0.14, p = 0.020), and health (β = -0.16, p = 0.012) among women. For men, nonsignificant associations were observed for all associations of IPV with psychosocial well-being outcomes. Results point to the importance of attending to broader aspects of psychosocial well-being that may represent modifiable intervention targets among women who have experienced IPV. Further research is needed to better understand the psychosocial well-being impacts of IPV for men.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e3526"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11898211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142932974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jin Hyung Kim, Hakseung Kim, Seho Lee, Sung Ha Kim, Sung Soo Park, Chang Woo Hong, Ki Tae Kwon, Seung Hun Lee, Hyun-Ji Kim, Kyoung Soo Kim, Jung Bin Kim, Hoon Choi, Dong-Joo Kim
{"title":"Enhancing Military Performance and Stress Management Through Mindfulness Training: The Role of Fronto-Limbic Network and Sequential Mediation Analysis.","authors":"Jin Hyung Kim, Hakseung Kim, Seho Lee, Sung Ha Kim, Sung Soo Park, Chang Woo Hong, Ki Tae Kwon, Seung Hun Lee, Hyun-Ji Kim, Kyoung Soo Kim, Jung Bin Kim, Hoon Choi, Dong-Joo Kim","doi":"10.1002/smi.70016","DOIUrl":"10.1002/smi.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mindfulness training (MT) has been shown to be effective at managing emotions and stress. However, the underlying neural mechanism of MT is yet unclear and attempts to explore the effects of MT on both psychological factors and performance outcomes remain unexplored. Physiological questionnaire, performance measures, and EEG-based Functional connectivity (FC) in the fronto-limbic network were analyzed in both the MT (N = 39) and control (N = 43) groups. Statistical analyses were conducted to evaluate group-wise differences, within-group longitudinal change, and sequential mediation effects. MT group maintained their stress coping capacity and demonstrated improved performance during the military training weeks. There was an increase in FC between the frontal and limbic regions in all frequency bands (i.e., delta, theta, alpha, and beta) in the MT group, yielding a higher FC than the control group in the final week. Furthermore, changes in these FC and changes in stress coping capacities played a sequential mediation role in the association between the MT and changes in military performance. This study demonstrated that MT was effective for military personnel under stressful conditions, in terms of managing stress coping capacity via changes in fronto-limbic FC, and improving task performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51175,"journal":{"name":"Stress and Health","volume":"41 1","pages":"e70016"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}