{"title":"Dynamic interplay among emotional support, social interaction, COVID-19 news exposure and anxiety symptoms in emerging adults during the early COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Yimei Zhang, Zhihao Ma","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2512922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2512922","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Anxiety was prevalent among emerging adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Conservation of Resources Theory, our goal was to investigate the relations among emotional support, social interaction, COVID-19 news exposure and anxiety symptoms in emerging adults during the early COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using the COVID-Dynamic dataset, we analyzed data from the first three waves (April 4-18, 2020), resulting in a total of 569 valid participants aged 18-29, with 46.2% identifying as female and a mean age of 23.88 years. The Gaussian Graphical Model was applied to estimate the network models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Contemporaneous network indicated that anxiety symptoms were related to emotional support, social interaction and COVID-19 news exposure. Temporal network revealed bidirectional relations between emotional support and anxiety, and between COVID-19 news exposure and anxiety. Several anxiety symptoms predicted social interaction one week later. Emotional support was a significant predictor of anxiety symptoms. \"I feel nervous\" had the highest strength value in the contemporaneous network. \"I feel indecisive\" had the highest in-strength centrality in the temporal network.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings partially support the COR theory and emphasize the need to reevaluate the role of emotional support in the theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144180478","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}
Kendra L Wilson, Bethany L Boettner, Ping Bai, Dylan D Wagner, Jodi L Ford, Christopher R Browning, Baldwin M Way
{"title":"Cross-sectional and longitudinal influences of stress mindset on adolescent depressive symptoms and cannabis use.","authors":"Kendra L Wilson, Bethany L Boettner, Ping Bai, Dylan D Wagner, Jodi L Ford, Christopher R Browning, Baldwin M Way","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2507094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2507094","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>A stress-is-enhancing mindset refers to viewing the nature of stress as enhancing rather than debilitating and has been linked to better mental health in response to stressors. We examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal link between stress mindset and two mental health outcomes, depressive symptoms and cannabis use, over the COVID-19 pandemic in a diverse sample of adolescents.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>A community sample of adolescents completed measures assessing depressive symptoms, cannabis use, and intentions to use cannabis at three time points (T1: 2018-2020, N = 299, T2: 2020, N = 219, T3: 2021, N = 173). Participants completed the stress mindset measure at T2.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cross-sectionally, a more stress-is-enhancing mindset was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and reduced intentions to use cannabis, which in turn were associated with less cannabis use. Longitudinally, a more stress-is-enhancing mindset was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and indirectly associated with less future cannabis use through behavioral intentions to use cannabis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study establishes a stress-is-enhancing mindset as a protective factor against cannabis use and contributes to a growing literature that stress mindset is protective against depression, indicating that stress mindset may be an important protective factor even in the face of naturalistic, chronic stressors.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129500","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}
June J Pilcher, Kaileigh A Byrne, Skylar E Weiskittel, Emma C Clark, Madelyn G Brancato, Margaret L Rosinski, Michael R Spinelli
{"title":"Brief slow-paced breathing improves working memory, mood, and stress in college students.","authors":"June J Pilcher, Kaileigh A Byrne, Skylar E Weiskittel, Emma C Clark, Madelyn G Brancato, Margaret L Rosinski, Michael R Spinelli","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2505897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2505897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Few studies have examined the effects of brief focused breathing techniques. This study investigated the impact of brief slow-paced breathing (SPB) with a longer exhalation on working memory and perceived mood, stress, and arousal.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Between-subjects experimental design.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants (139 undergraduates, 69% female) were randomized to a one-time SPB session or a mind-wandering active control condition. The participants completed the OSPAN working memory task and state measures of mood, stress, and arousal at three time points: baseline, post-manipulation, and post-task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>OSPAN performance improved in the experimental group. Mood improved in the experimental group but decreased in the control group from baseline to post-manipulation and then decreased in both conditions after completing the OSPAN task. Stress decreased in the experimental group from baseline to post-manipulation and was significantly different from the control group at the post-manipulation time point. Stress then increased from post-manipulation to post-task in both conditions. Arousal decreased in both conditions from baseline to post-manipulation but then increased from post-manipulation to post-task.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current results demonstrate that a brief SPB session with longer exhalation improved working memory and temporarily improved mood and stress thus providing a just-in-time intervention to help individuals cope with stress-inducing conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112666","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}
Caroline Faucher, Anna Behler, Megan E J Campbell, Renate Thienel
{"title":"Effect of brief dog-assisted interventions on psychobiological indicators of stress: a systematic review.","authors":"Caroline Faucher, Anna Behler, Megan E J Campbell, Renate Thienel","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2505902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2505902","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the growing popularity of dog-assisted interventions (DAI), limited empirical evidence exists on their effect on the physiological stress response. The current systematic review examines the existing literature on the effect of a single, brief DAI on psychobiological indicators of stress in different demographics and settings, with a focus on identifying methodological strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in the field. A brief intervention is considered as lasting up to 45 minutes. Twenty-six relevant studies, each involving a group of participants receiving DAI and at least one control condition, were identified and analyzed for methodological quality and findings. The review aimed to identify gaps in knowledge and contributes to a deeper understanding of DAI, offering insights for future research. Evidence to date partially supports the notion that a brief therapeutic intervention with the assistance of a dog may influence the autonomic stress response. However, this review highlights a need to standardize methodologies when collecting psychobiological indicators of stress to clarify the relationship between DAI and physiological stress responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144081720","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}
B T Sharpe, A Sharpe, D Poulus, E A C Obine, R King, P D J Birch, T E Gladwin
{"title":"Enhancing pressurized esports performance: a pilot study on the combined effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and arousal reappraisal.","authors":"B T Sharpe, A Sharpe, D Poulus, E A C Obine, R King, P D J Birch, T E Gladwin","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2502792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2502792","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>This pilot study explored the combined impact of arousal reappraisal intervention and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) on state anxiety, challenge and threat appraisals, and performance under high pressure in esport contexts. Arousal reappraisal has previously been shown to enable individuals to interpret physiological arousal more constructively, while tDCS has demonstrated potential to increase the efficacy of psychological interventions.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A fully repeated measures study design was employed where participants experienced four different experimental interventions: tDCS with arousal reappraisal, tDCS with active control, sham stimulation with arousal reappraisal, and sham stimulation with active control.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Seventeen male Counter-Strike competitors participated in the study. Each participant received all four experimental intervention conditions, with measurements taken of state anxiety, challenge and threat appraisals, and esport performance under pressure.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings tentatively suggest that arousal reappraisal effectively reduces cognitive anxiety, promotes favourable challenge appraisals versus threat, and enhances esports performance. This effect appeared more pronounced when arousal reappraisal was combined with anodal tDCS.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Combining arousal reappraisal and tDCS may be a promising intervention for esports competitors facing performance pressure. The synergistic effects of these interventions warrant further investigation in larger samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143994304","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":"Enhanced long-term memory for distractors via attention in trait and social anxiety.","authors":"Jun Moriya","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2500746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2500746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Individuals with anxiety and social anxiety direct their attention toward emotionally neutral task-irrelevant distractors. However, what happens after attention is paid to neutral distractors remains unknown. This study examined whether attention to distractors enhances long-term memory (LTM) of distractors in individuals with anxiety and social anxiety. Participants performed a visual-search task using real-world objects under either anxiety induction (Experiment 1) or no anxiety induction (Experiment 2). Subsequently, in the surprise-recognition task, participants were required to indicate whether an object had been shown in the visual-search task. The results showed that anxiety and social anxiety, especially the fear of negative evaluation, positively correlated with attentional bias toward neutral distractors. Moreover, mediation analysis showed significant indirect effects of anxiety and social anxiety on LTM through attentional bias. These results suggest that individuals with anxiety and social anxiety involuntarily direct their attention to distractors, which enhances their LTM.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008539","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2450620
Tad T Brunyé, Sara Anne Goring, Ester Navarro, Hannah Hart-Pomerantz, Sophia Grekin, Alexandra M McKinlay, Franziska Plessow
{"title":"Identifying the most effective acute stress induction methods for producing SAM- and HPA-related physiological responses: a meta-analysis.","authors":"Tad T Brunyé, Sara Anne Goring, Ester Navarro, Hannah Hart-Pomerantz, Sophia Grekin, Alexandra M McKinlay, Franziska Plessow","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2450620","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2450620","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Laboratory-based stress inductions are commonly used to elicit acute stress but vary widely in their procedures and effectiveness. We compared the effects of stress induction techniques on measures of two major biological stress systems: the early sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (SAM) and the delayed hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A review and meta-analysis to examine the relationship between stress induction techniques on cardiorespiratory and salivary measures of SAM and HPA system activity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A systematic literature search identified 245 reports and 700 effects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The overall effect of stress induction techniques on the stress response was moderate (Fisher's <i>z</i><sub>r</sub> = 0.44), inducing stronger SAM-related (<i>z</i><sub>r</sub> = 0.48) versus HPA-related (<i>z</i><sub>r</sub> = 0.37) responses. Three factors moderated these associations: the stress system examined (SAM vs HPA), the specific stress induction technique employed (e.g., Cold Pressor), the physiological sampling time relative to the stress induction, and participant sex. Loud music elicited the most robust SAM-related effects, whereas combined stress inductions elicited the most robust HPA-related effects. Men showed stronger stress responses than women.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Stress induction techniques variably elicit SAM - and HPA-related responses. Results recommend specific induction techniques for targeting stress systems, highlighting the importance of carefully selecting methodologies in laboratory contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"263-285"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142958547","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-10-17DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2417433
Roland P Hart, George A Bonanno
{"title":"Exploring Working Memory in Context Sensitivity.","authors":"Roland P Hart, George A Bonanno","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2417433","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2417433","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Context sensitivity refers to the ability to identify cues regarding the nature of stressor situations. This skill is a necessary precursor to successful emotion regulation and may involve detecting the presence or absence of stressor cues. Previous research has suggested that context sensitivity relies in part on working memory (WM), one component of cognitive control or executive functioning. We explored this potential relationship in an empirical study (N = 112) that assessed WM via WAIS-IV Digit Span as well as the ability to detect the presence or absence of stressor cues via the Context Sensitivity Index. Results demonstrated that detection of both cue presence and absence were significantly associated with the ability to apply semantic knowledge to information held in WM. Our findings expand upon a potential cognitive mechanism for context sensitivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"343-348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480337","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":"<i>Nobody's \"Prfect\"!</i> The effect of manipulating perfectionism on social anxiety symptoms.","authors":"Anishka Jean, Hattie Murphy, Grace Sullivan, Lauren Swarr, Sabrina Siegan, Ayah Aldebyan, Shari A Steinman","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2463959","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2463959","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social anxiety is a common experience that ranges from mild, temporary distress to excessive, persistent, and impairing fear. The current study tested whether perfectionism contributes to social anxiety symptoms and post-event processing (PEP) in the context of a contract-based manipulation to shift perfectionism. The manipulation asked participants to perform everything to a specific standard level for the following 24 hrs to shift perfectionism. Participants completed measures of social anxiety and perfectionism before delivering a speech. Next, participants were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: High Personal Standards, High Personal Standards with Evaluative Concerns (High PS+EC), and Low Personal Standards. The following day, participants completed the same measures, including a measure on PEP related to the speech. Consistent with hypotheses, results suggest that the contract manipulation significantly altered perfectionism, such that participants in the High PS+EC condition had an increase in perfectionism over time. Contrary to expectations, the contract manipulation did not affect social anxiety symptoms or PEP. Results suggest that focusing on evaluation concerns, rather than personal standards alone, may contribute to perfectionism. It is possible that a stronger or larger dose of the manipulation is needed to see effects on social anxiety symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"301-312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143450848","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 : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2423154
Xiaoqin Wang, Shiyu Shao, Hui Cheng, Scott D Blain, Yafei Tan, Lei Jia
{"title":"Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life.","authors":"Xiaoqin Wang, Shiyu Shao, Hui Cheng, Scott D Blain, Yafei Tan, Lei Jia","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2423154","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2423154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Cognitive flexibility is a key factor underlying emotion regulation (ER) and mental health. However, the impact of cognitive flexibility on flexible deployment of ER strategies in changing contexts remains unknown. This study investigated the effects of cognitive flexibility on two noteworthy ER constructs (strategy use and flexibility) and examined downstream impacts on negative affect.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Healthy adult participants (<i>N</i> = 202) completed a 10-day experience sampling protocol. Cognitive flexibility, daily ER (including flexibility and ten specific strategies) and negative affect in daily life were measured. We conducted multilevel regression and mediation models to examine associations among cognitive flexibility, daily ER, and negative affect in daily life.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher cognitive flexibility predicted higher ER flexibility - indicated by strategy - situation fit, use of meta-ER skills and between-strategy variability - as well as higher use of reappraisal and problem solving, but lower use of worry. Mediation analyses suggested that enhanced ER flexibility and reduced use of worry linked cognitive flexibility to reduced negative affect.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, findings have important implications for understanding the effects of cognitive flexibility on rigid versus flexible ER in ever-changing situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"365-378"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591410","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}