Angie S LeRoy, Andreas Weyland, Jade Kanemitsu, Arya Tsay-Jones, Vincent D Lai, E Lydia Wu-Chung, Nyla Vela, Amanda Perozo, Valentina I Maza, Sierra Wickline, Katherine Beach, Robert Suchting
{"title":"Development and initial testing of an online security prime writing intervention during COVID-19.","authors":"Angie S LeRoy, Andreas Weyland, Jade Kanemitsu, Arya Tsay-Jones, Vincent D Lai, E Lydia Wu-Chung, Nyla Vela, Amanda Perozo, Valentina I Maza, Sierra Wickline, Katherine Beach, Robert Suchting","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2542298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2542298","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>During the COVID-19 pandemic, we tested the efficacy of a one-week online security prime (SP) writing intervention in reducing distress among 254 adults (60+ years and/or having an underlying health condition). The efficacy of writing interventions can depend on several factors. Attachment orientations, characterized by dimensions of anxiety and avoidance, reflect individuals' tendencies in how they seek proximity to and rely on others for support, and influence how people experience and regulate their emotions.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: Security Priming (SP), where people wrote about what made them feel safe and secure, Self-regulation (SR), where people wrote about their pandemic-related stressors, coping, and lifestyle changes, or a Control group (C); they also completed pre- and post-intervention measures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our hypothesis that the SP condition would outperform the SR and C conditions in reducing distress, was not supported. In the SP condition, attachment avoidance demonstrated a negative relationship with distress at follow-up, unlike the other two conditions. Further, those in the SP condition demonstrated a negative relationship between attachment anxiety and distress at follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The SP writing intervention was impactful for those insecurely attached and may have utility in other loss-related contexts beyond COVID-19.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145214374","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}
E Karin, D F Gucciardi, T Rigotti, S Parker, R Kalisch, M F Crane
{"title":"Understanding job demands and resources through network analysis: insights into workplace interconnectivity.","authors":"E Karin, D F Gucciardi, T Rigotti, S Parker, R Kalisch, M F Crane","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2564323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2564323","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study uses network analysis to explore how job demands and resources may proliferate and interconnect within the workplace.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To examine how demands and resources escalate and form ecologies by mapping their interconnections within workplace dynamics.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We capitalized on a large-scale cross-sectional data collection in Navy personnel preparing for deployment.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were collected via paper-survey from 558 participants (75.8% males; M<i>age </i>= 30.22 years). A diversity of demands and resources were measured including from distinct sources.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Resources were extensively and positively interconnected, consistent with the resource spirals concept. Distal resources were connected via job control and organizational-based self-esteem. In contrast, demands were more compartmentalized. Positive links between demands across domains, especially those involving interpersonal conflict, suggest that social mechanisms may underlie their interconnection.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest how interconnected resources may help strengthen resource ecologies within organizations, while minimizing demand interconnectivity could reduce strain. The observed structure suggests that social factors may support the association between distinct resources (e.g., organizational-based self-esteem) or demands (i.e., interpersonal conflict), suggesting a role in resource or demand spirals. This highlights the potential role of psychological needs, particularly autonomy and relatedness, in shaping resource networks and creating more supportive workplace conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145214433","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":"Patterns in transitions of coping and their associations with adolescents' post-traumatic distress and growth: a random intercept latent transition analysis.","authors":"Yifan Li, Yingying Ye, Xima Yang, Jiali Huang, Zijian He, Xiao Zhou","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2563397","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2563397","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>We aimed to investigate whether adolescents employ different profiles of coping, how profiles transition, and how transitions influence adolescents' depressive symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and posttraumatic growth (PTG).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We surveyed 585 Chinese adolescents (Age: <i>M</i> = 15.50, <i>SD</i> = 1.58) 12 (T1), 21 (T2), 27 (T3) months after the Jiuzhaigou earthquake. We used latent profile analysis and random intercept latent transition analysis in identifying emergent profiles and transitions of coping, and examined their associations with depressive symptoms, PTSS, and PTG.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified three profiles (Low Generic Copers; Problem-focused Copers; High Generic Copers) that formed seven transitions. Stable low or high generic coping and the transition from low to high generic coping were related with high distress and high growth; stable high problem-focused, low emotion-focused coping or transitions from high problem-focused coping to low or high generic coping were related with low distress and high growth; transition from high to low generic coping was related with low distress and low growth.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings highlight that adolescent employ heterogeneous coping strategies that dynamically transition over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201987","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}
Hannah S Ishimuro, Anne DePrince, Kateri McRae, Michelle Rozenman
{"title":"Perceived and behavioral distress tolerance: links with avoidance and anxiety.","authors":"Hannah S Ishimuro, Anne DePrince, Kateri McRae, Michelle Rozenman","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2564330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2564330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Theories propose that low distress tolerance (DT) leads to anxious avoidance. Operational definitions and measurement of DT are inconsistent across studies. This study examined associations between perceived and behavioral DT with experiential and anxiety-specific behavioral avoidance in the context of anxiety.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>174 undergraduate students (68% women, 18-27 years) participated in an online study that included questionnaires assessing perceived DT, anxiety symptoms, experiential avoidance, anxiety-specific behavioral avoidance, and a behavioral DT task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Perceived DT was associated with experiential avoidance and anxiety-specific behavioral avoidance. Associations between DT and avoidance were not moderated by anxiety. On the behavioral DT task, participants with high anxiety reported higher distress pre-, mid-, and post-task compared to participants with low anxiety. Participants with distress increases from pre-to-mid-task were more likely to quit the task; this was not moderated by anxiety. When all measures of DT and avoidance were examined together, only perceived DT and experiential avoidance explained variance in anxiety.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Perceived and behavioral DT measures likely capture different components of DT. Behavioral DT tasks may be less effective in inducing distress in participants with high anxiety compared to low anxiety. Perceived DT and experiential avoidance were most associated with anxiety.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145193784","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":"Single-session expressive writing interventions for test anxiety: a meta-analysis.","authors":"Patti O'Meara, Benjamin J Lovett","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2552857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2552857","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Test anxiety is a common experience, and a variety of intervention approaches for it have been developed. In recent years, single sessions of expressive writing (a brief exercise in which students write about their worries just prior to taking a test) have been promoted as an intervention.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We conducted a meta-analysis to determine whether single-session expressive writing reduces test anxiety or increases test performance.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Our literature search yielded 15 relevant documents comprising 21 studies (total <i>N</i> = 1,457 participants), with 30 effect sizes across measures of anxiety and test performance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our meta-analysis found only a negligible, nonsignificant effect of expressive writing on anxiety (<i>r</i> = -.05, <i>p</i> = .57), an effect that remained nonsignificant after an extreme outlier was removed (leading to <i>r</i> = -.10, <i>p</i> = .08). The effect on test performance was initially significant (<i>r</i> = .09, <i>p</i> = .02) until an extreme outlier was removed (leading to <i>r</i> = .06, <i>p</i> = .06). There was very little evidence of publication bias. Although there was substantial heterogeneity in effect sizes across studies, the tested moderators failed to show robust effects.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The available research literature fails to support single sessions of expressive writing as a treatment for test anxiety. However, other treatments with more supportive evidence are available.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145088102","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":"A longitudinal model of emotion pathways to growth, depreciation, and health outcomes after life stress.","authors":"Matthew Brooks, Martin J Turner","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2558729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2558729","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>The emotion belief and emotion regulation pathways that shape negative (posttraumatic depreciation; PTD) and positive adaptation (posttraumatic growth; PTG) following daily life stressors are poorly understood. This longitudinal study examined how emotion beliefs and emotion regulation strategies influence PTD and PTG, and subsequent mental (depression, anxiety, stress) and physical health (headaches, gastrointestinal problems, respiratory infections, sleep disturbances) symptoms.</p><p><strong>Design and method: </strong>A longitudinal panel design was used. British participants (<i>N</i> = 627) completed an online survey measuring life stressors, emotion beliefs, emotion regulation, PTD and PTG, and mental and physical health at two time points six months apart (October 2021 and April 2022).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The path model explained 18-21% of the variance in mental and physical health outcomes. Cognitive mediation and emotion beliefs were negatively and positively related to PTD. Maladaptive emotion regulation was positively associated with PTD, and worse mental and physical health. Adaptive emotion regulation was positively related to PTG, and less depressive and stress symptoms. PTG was negatively related to depression, and PTD was negatively associated with mental and physical health.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Distinct pathways to PTD and PTG operate through superordinate emotion beliefs and emotion regulation. Interventions targeting emotion beliefs and emotion regulation may improve mental and physical health following adversity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145082553","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}
Wenrui Zhang, Ting He, Huinan Hu, Chunyan Yang, Xiuyun Lin
{"title":"The mechanisms for maintenance of COVID Stress Syndrome symptom networks: a dynamic network analysis.","authors":"Wenrui Zhang, Ting He, Huinan Hu, Chunyan Yang, Xiuyun Lin","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2554809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2554809","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>COVID Stress Syndrome (CSS) is a new type of health anxiety triggered by the COVID epidemic. However, we know little about the causal relationship with CSS symptoms and the temporal and dynamic interactions between symptoms and cognitive processes associated with health anxiety.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>During the epidemic of COVID-19, 193 Chinese university students completed experience sampling methods on CSS symptoms and related constructs of health anxiety three times a day for 14 days.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Multilevel vector autoregressive (mlVAR) models were used to estimate contemporaneous and temporal networks at the within-person level.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>(1) The CSS symptoms were divided into two periods of growth and maintenance during these 14 days. (2) The COVID-19 traumatic stress dimension played a crucial role in maintaining the symptom network. (3) Catastrophizing of bodily sensations and rumination formed a positive feedback loop with COVID traumatic stress symptoms dimension of the CSS.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study advances the current understanding of CSS at the symptom level and temporal dynamics. The results suggest that the COVID traumatic stress dimension is a core mechanism for CSS maintenance and could be a point of focus for intervention and treatment in clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145031114","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}
Jayden Greenwell-Barnden, Patrick Clarke, Lies Notebaert
{"title":"Psychological distress and negative life events among university students: mapping patterns of exposure and impact.","authors":"Jayden Greenwell-Barnden, Patrick Clarke, Lies Notebaert","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2554829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2554829","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Early adulthood and commencing university coincide with new life circumstances for many students which increases exposure to negative life events (NLE). Such events can have lasting impacts on student mental health. An exploratory study was conducted in a student sample to examine the frequency of NLE, event co-occurrence, and associated mental health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Six-hundred-and-fifty university students completed the Negative Life Events Scale for Students and the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale. Normative data was examined for NLE's experienced by women and men across the lifespan, and in the last 12-months to provide an overview of students' experience. An exploratory factor analysis on the experience of NLE in the last 12-months examined co-occurrence of events and associated vulnerability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Ninety-eight percent of students experienced at least one NLE, and 50% were experienced in the last 12-months. Events relating to academic problems and domestic violence were associated with poorer mental health, were common, and occurred relatively recently. Six factors were identified demonstrating some NLE co-occur.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings confirm the high prevalence of NLE among university students, with psychological/addiction issues and academic pressures had the strongest associations with poorer mental health. Findings may inform targeted student mental health support programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145001889","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 : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-05-20DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2505897
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":"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":"528-543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","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}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2491740
Caitlyn Loucas, Laura Taouk, Diana J Cox, Kathleen C Gunthert
{"title":"The efficacy of a stress mindset intervention on psychosocial health and daily stress processes in college students.","authors":"Caitlyn Loucas, Laura Taouk, Diana J Cox, Kathleen C Gunthert","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2491740","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2491740","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Although stress is commonly characterized as harmful, interventions promoting adaptive stress mindsets have led to improved physiological, psychological, and behavioral outcomes. Interventions including rehearsal of stress mindset strategies may improve health and functioning.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We tested the efficacy of an intervention including an in-person stress mindset seminar and daily rehearsal on psychosocial outcomes and daily stress-related processes over 21 days. Eighty-eight first-year college students were randomized to a stress-is-enhancing condition (SEC) or non-intervention-control (NIC). The SEC attended an interactive seminar providing education about stress physiology and strategies to adopt a more positive stress mindset. Daily dairies recorded stress processes (perceived stress, stress mindset, affect, and daily stressor appraisals) with writing prompts encouraging daily rehearsal of seminar strategies for the SEC.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The intervention produced more adaptive stress mindsets, improved depression and anxiety symptoms, as well as improved daily challenge appraisals and greater perceived ability to cope with stressors, relative to control. No effect was found on daily affect, perceived daily stress, or perceptions of daily stressors as threatening or controllable.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings further support the efficacy of stress mindset interventions on psychosocial health and adaptive cognitive responses to daily stress and suggest that rehearsal may help maintain effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"512-527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143998846","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}