Virginia Tsekova, Avideh Gharehgazlou, Naomi Koerner, Martin M Antony
{"title":"Emotion regulation and high social anxiety: spontaneous and instructed use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate anger.","authors":"Virginia Tsekova, Avideh Gharehgazlou, Naomi Koerner, Martin M Antony","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2539985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2539985","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder and those high in social anxiety (HSA) experience greater anger difficulties compared to those with low social anxiety (LSA).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study examined trait and state anger in individuals with HSA (<i>n </i>= 46) and LSA (<i>n </i>= 45). The study also explored group differences in state and trait cognitive reappraisal and the effectiveness of instructed cognitive reappraisal to regulate state anger among participants with HSA and LSA in response to films containing rejection-salient content.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants with HSA, relative to LSA, exhibited greater trait and state anger. The HSA group reported lower trait cognitive reappraisal than the LSA group. However, results revealed no significant group differences in state cognitive reappraisal. Further, both groups exhibited a significant reduction in state anger after receiving instructions to use cognitive reappraisal.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings demonstrate that when instructed to use cognitive reappraisal, individuals with HSA were able to do so effectively, and experienced a comparable magnitude in the reduction of state anger as participants with LSA. Implication of these findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144762266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Astrid Böhme, Leah Banellis, Melina Vejlø, Micah G Allen, Francesca Fardo
{"title":"No evidence for a link between mental health symptoms and pain thresholds.","authors":"Rebecca Astrid Böhme, Leah Banellis, Melina Vejlø, Micah G Allen, Francesca Fardo","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2534858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2534858","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Previous studies have suggested associations between pain perception and psychological factors such as mood, distress, fatigue, and quality of life. However, these factors and their relationship to pain sensitivity have typically been investigated in isolation and with insufficient sample sizes. To address these limitations, we examine the interplay between distinct psychological factors and thermal pain sensitivity in a large adult sample.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We implemented a multivariate latent variable modeling approach in a sizable sample of adult participants (<i>n</i> = 257), to examine the interplay between distinct psychological factors and thermal pain sensitivity. Using exploratory factor analysis of 10 mental health questionnaires, we identified three psychological factors related to distress, fatigue and bodily symptoms. Additionally, we established a measure of laboratory pain sensitivity by applying principal component analysis to three thermal pain thresholds (cold, heat, and combined cold and heat).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Regression analyses revealed no significant relationships between psychological factors and laboratory measures of thermal pain across individuals ranging from asymptomatic to those with subclinical and clinical mental health manifestations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings provide no evidence supporting an association between psychological factors, either individually or collectively, and thermal pain sensitivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144755087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing and evaluating a performance-based approach to coping flexibility: assessing repertoire breadth and situation-strategy fit.","authors":"Brianna Preiser, L E Bradley, Anthony Papa","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2529829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2529829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>The Cognitive Transactional Model of Coping suggests coping is maximized when individuals respond flexibly to situational demands. Directly testing the coping flexibility hypothesis is contingent on developing measures to capture the person-situation transactional process of coping. This study assessed the validity of a new performance-based approach to measuring coping flexibility and examined its contribution to predicting life satisfaction and psychological distress above existing measures.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>343 participants (52% male, 68% white) presented with two stressor scenarios were asked to describe how they would respond. Qualitative responses were coded to assess the breadth of individual coping repertoires and fit between the situation and strategy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The measurement approach effectively captured the varying demands of the stressor scenarios. Situation-strategy fit predicted increased life satisfaction and decreased psychological distress above existing coping flexibility measures. Contrary to prediction, the breadth of coping repertoires predicted decreased life satisfaction and increased psychological distress.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current study introduced a performance-based approach for coping flexibility and supported situation-strategy fit as an important component. A more sophisticated operationalization of repertoire is needed to delineate variability in coping responses that indicate flexibility from haphazard coping.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144644142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cumulative genetic effects of HPA axis on social phobia scrutiny fear: psychoticism and social face as mediators.","authors":"Yuting Yang, Wenting Liang, Wenping Zhao, Qi Lan, Mingzhu Zhou, Pingyuan Gong","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2530702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2530702","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Social phobia scrutiny fear is a stress response triggered by perceptions of social evaluation. However, the role of genetic polymorphisms in the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) axis in shaping this fear is not well understood. This study investigates how the cumulative genetic score of the HPA axis influences social phobia scrutiny fear.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Two independent samples were used. The first examined the relationship between the cumulative genetic effects of the HPA axis and social phobia scrutiny fear. The second sample replicated these findings and explored the mediating roles of psychoticism and social face.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both samples revealed that individuals with a higher cumulative genetic score, associated with increased cortisol reactivity, experienced greater social phobia scrutiny fear. Moreover, psychoticism and social face mediated this relationship, with a stronger genetic predisposition, higher psychoticism, and more pronounced social face correlating with greater scrutiny fear.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings highlight the significant role of the HPA axis in social phobia scrutiny fear and shed light on the psychological pathways through which genetic effects are influenced by personality traits.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144610285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2394800
Guillaume Levillain, Guillaume Martinent, Michel Nicolas
{"title":"Longitudinal trajectories of intensity and direction of emotions among athletes in sports competitions: do defense mechanisms matter?","authors":"Guillaume Levillain, Guillaume Martinent, Michel Nicolas","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2394800","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2394800","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This study explored whether several subgroups of athletes representing distinct trajectories of intensity and direction of pleasant and unpleasant emotions (anger, anxiety, dejection, excitement, and happiness) could be shown to exist within the latent growth analysis (LCGA). A secondary objective was to examine whether athletes belonging to distinct trajectories of intensity and direction of emotions reported distinct scores of adaptive defense mechanisms (ADM) and maladaptive defense mechanisms (MDM).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A longitudinal four-wave measurement design was used in the present study.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>380 athletes completed the sports emotion questionnaire direction across four measurement times and the defense style questionnaire at the beginning of the season.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results of LCGAs revealed several distinct emotional trajectories for each emotion intensity and emotion direction. Moreover, athletes belonging to distinct (adaptive or maladaptive) trajectories reported significantly different scores of ADM and MDM. Higher scores of ADM were reported by athletes belonging to adaptive trajectories of the direction of emotions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Sports psychologists should try to promote ADM and defensive flexibility to help athletes perceive their emotions as facilitative.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"379-393"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2423436
Michelle J Birch, Joseph Inhaber, Andrea R Ashbaugh
{"title":"Morally uncertain: the influence of intolerance of uncertainty and perceived responsibility on moral pain.","authors":"Michelle J Birch, Joseph Inhaber, Andrea R Ashbaugh","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2423436","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2423436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Morally horrific events can evoke moral pain and may result in a type of psychological distress known as moral injury (MI). Previous research has hypothesized intolerance of uncertainty (IU; <i>the aversive cognitive and behavioural reaction to uncertainty</i>) may predict MI symptomatology due to its influence on perceived responsibility (PR). As such, we examined the influence of IU and PR on moral emotions associated with vignettes depicting morally stressful events.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants (<i>n </i>= 245) completed the IU-Scale Short-Form, and were randomly assigned to listen and imagine themselves in a series of vignettes depicting grave moral transgressions committed either by the self (self-transgression condition; STC) or others (OTC). Participants provided ratings of moral emotions and PR in response to each vignette.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant positive associations were observed between PR and moral emotions in the STC and OTC. IU's behavioral subdimension, inhibitory IU, was positively associated with moral emotions in the STC. Inhibitory IU did not moderate the association between PR and moral emotions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Future research should further explore the interplay of inhibitory IU, PR and MI. Understanding the behavioral inaction associated with elevated inhibitory IU may be important in mitigating painful moral emotions following self-transgressed moral violations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"423-435"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2460230
Lena Mareen Grabo, André Schulz, Silja Bellingrath
{"title":"Vagally-mediated heart rate variability longitudinally predicts test anxiety in university students.","authors":"Lena Mareen Grabo, André Schulz, Silja Bellingrath","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2460230","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2460230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Self-regulatory processes, namely behavioral regulation (in terms of executive functions) and emotion regulation, are assumed to be central for test anxiety. Both self-regulation components, along with vagally-mediated heart rate variability (HRV) - a proposed concomitant of top-down self-regulation - are associated with anxiety.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A longitudinal design was adopted to test the hypotheses that (1) higher vagally-mediated HRV, (2) adaptive emotion regulation and (3) better executive functioning (i.e., higher inhibitory control) at the semester beginning (t1) predict lower levels of test anxiety at the end of the semester (t2).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A sample of <i>N</i> = 70 (58 female) university students (<i>M</i> [<i>SD</i>] age = 25.04 [7.14] years) completed a measurement of resting HRV (RMSSD), performed an affective go/no-go task, and reported on emotion regulation and test anxiety at t1. Test anxiety and certain examination characteristics were assessed at t2. A hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Supporting hypothesis 1, HRV at t1 significantly predicted test anxiety at t2, whereas emotion regulation and inhibitory control were no significant predictors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>As vagally-mediated HRV seems meaningful for the prediction of test anxiety, interventions designed to reduce test anxiety could benefit from incorporating HRV biofeedback training.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"409-422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2024-11-20DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2428950
Marta Martins, Beatriz Salgado, Susana Silva
{"title":"Music performance anxiety: priority targets in prevention and intervention.","authors":"Marta Martins, Beatriz Salgado, Susana Silva","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2428950","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2428950","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a major setback for musicians with diverse backgrounds and expertise. MPA can be managed with adequate strategies, and success will improve if information and professional help is widely available and if musicians are willing to seek such help. Research on MPA has focused on the correlates (potential causes) of MPA, but results are scattered across studies. Also, the correlates of musicians' willingness to mitigate MPA remain underexplored.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>To address the referred gaps, we inspected eleven sociodemographic and music-related predictors of MPA in a single sample and investigated potential correlates of musicians' coping strategies and openness to professional help.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results from 184 Portuguese and Brazilian musicians pointed to age, sex, and discrepancies between real and ideal self as a musician as the most relevant predictors of MPA. Regarding coping strategies, we found that females, Portuguese, classical performers and those exposed to higher levels of external judgment resort more than males, Brazilians, non-classical and low-exposure musicians to physiology-related methods. Openness to professional help was lower in Portuguese, classical and high-exposure musicians, and in low-MPA performers.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings contribute to better identifying individuals at risk of developing and perpetuating MPA, thus allowing more efficient awareness campaigns and intervention programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"479-492"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142683102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2466629
Dakota D Witzel, Suzanne C Segerstrom, Maria L Kurth, Paris Crosby, Soyoung Choun, Carolyn Aldwin
{"title":"Aging and subjective cognitive difficulties during COVID-19: stress and positive experiences.","authors":"Dakota D Witzel, Suzanne C Segerstrom, Maria L Kurth, Paris Crosby, Soyoung Choun, Carolyn Aldwin","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2466629","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2466629","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective(s): </strong>Stressful and positive experiences may inform subjective perceptions of cognition; however, much of the literature focuses on stressful experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine individual differences related to both minor (weekly) and larger (life) stressful and positive experiences, and subjective cognitive functioning during a worldwide, chronic stressor. The current studies examined these associations in two samples of older adults which used two different time scales - weeks and months. We also examined how age moderated associations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In Study 1, 245 older adults (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 71.1) completed measures on stress, positive experiences, and subjective cognitive difficulties (SCDs) across eight weeks during the pandemic. In Study 2, 116 older adults (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 76.16) were assessed every six months for up to 2½ years during the pandemic<b>.</b></p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In both studies, higher typical stress (weekly stress intensity and life events) was related to more subjective cognitive difficulties. In Study 1 but not Study 2, older age was related to lower levels of subjective cognitive difficulties, especially during weeks with high stress and positive experiences (within-persons).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The current study provides information as to whose subjective cognition may be most impacted by stress and positive experiences within a major non-normative event.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"462-478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12185241/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143469909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}