Jiemiao Chen, Esther van den Bos, Julian D Karch, P Michiel Westenberg
{"title":"Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction.","authors":"Jiemiao Chen, Esther van den Bos, Julian D Karch, P Michiel Westenberg","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2125961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2125961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Social anxiety has long been related to reduced eye contact, and this feature is seen as a causal and a maintaining factor of social anxiety disorder. The present research adds to the literature by investigating the relationship between social anxiety and visual avoidance of faces in a reciprocal face-to-face conversation, while taking into account two aspects of conversations as potential moderating factors: conversational role and level of intimacy.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Eighty-five female students (17-25 years) completed the Leibowitz Social Anxiety Scale and had a face-to-face getting-acquainted conversation with a female confederate. We alternated conversational role (talking versus listening) and manipulated intimacy of the topics (low versus high). Participants' gaze behavior was registered with Tobii eye-tracking glasses. Three dependent measures were extracted regarding fixations on the face of the confederate: total duration, proportion of fixations, and mean duration.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results revealed that higher levels of social anxiety were associated with reduced face gaze on all three measures. The relation with total fixation duration was stronger for low intimate topics. The relation with mean fixation duration was stronger during listening than during speaking.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results highlight the importance of studying gaze behavior in a naturalistic social interaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"460-474"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9883275","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":"Integrating appraisal processes in the study demands-resources framework - a diary study.","authors":"Annika Schmiedl, Eva-Maria Schulte, Simone Kauffeld","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2117306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2117306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Students face various demands that can lead to health complaints. Hindering demands appear to be especially harmful. Since the perception of demands differs between persons, their individual appraisal determines stress perception. However, individual appraisal processes are largely neglected in research. Therefore, this study builds on the study demands-resources model in examining the dynamics of students' demand-appraisal processes and their effects on well-being.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>During ten days in a four-week period, 247 students participated in a diary study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed our data via multilevel path analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our analyses revealed that the student's appraisal of the same demands varied across days and depended on available resources, i.e., the received support quality on the respective day. Appraising demands as hindering was positively linked to the perception of stress on the same day. Daily perception of stress was positively linked to person-level strain and health complaints after four weeks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results highlight the importance of assessing the individual appraisal of demands rather than pre-categorizing demands. Furthermore, our findings identify social support as a crucial resource in reducing hindering appraisal; hence, it should be included in student-focused stress-management interventions. Limitations and further implications are also discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"444-459"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9883266","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 : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2022.2110588
Danny Rahal, Stacy T Shaw, James W Stigler
{"title":"Lower socioeconomic status is related to poorer emotional well-being prior to academic exams.","authors":"Danny Rahal, Stacy T Shaw, James W Stigler","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2110588","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2110588","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>People of lower social status tend to have greater emotional responses to stress. The present study assessed whether lower social status was related to greater emotional responses in anticipation of a naturalistic stressor: academic exams among college students.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>College students in an introductory statistics class (<i>N = </i>252; 75.81% female; 18.41% Latino, 25.10% White, 43.93% Asian, 12.56% different racial backgrounds) completed two course exams as part of this naturalistic prepost-experimental design. They provided four reports of positive, depressive, and anxious emotion - one the day before and one immediately after each exam.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As hypothesized, multilevel models (ratings nested within participants) predicting emotion indicated that students with lower mother's education had less positive emotion, more depressive emotion, and more anxious emotion the day prior to academic exams than students with higher mother's education (proportional reductions in variance [PRV] = .013-.020). Specifically, lower mother's education was associated with poorer well-being before but not after the exam. Exploratory models revealed that differences in emotion by mother's education were strongest for students with lower exam scores (PRV = .030-.040).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Socioeconomic status may influence college students' anticipatory distress prior to academic exams, which may impact health and academic performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"502-518"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9968358/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9883263","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}
{"title":"The past and future of uncertainty in advanced illness: a systematic scoping review of underlying cognitive processes.","authors":"Denise Pergolizzi, Iris Crespo","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2134566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2134566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To explain what cognitive capacity shapes uncertainty in advanced illness by identifying the types of evidence, mapping underlying cognitive processes to uncertainty, and outlining future directions for research and interventions.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A systematic scoping review of mixed study designs was carried out following the methodological framework of Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and using qualitative content analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, and PsycINFO were searched for original studies published in full and in English through December 2021 that reported on uncertainty in illness and related cognitions, cognitive science, or cognitive functions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After screening 978, 18 articles met the inclusion criteria for review. We found the cognitive capacity of mental time travel - to relive the past or foresee life in the future - interacted with episodic memory retrieval to inform decision-making, and prospection to imagine, predict or prepare for future outcomes to determine lesser or greater uncertainty in advanced illness.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Mental time travel is a fundamental cognitive function when the future is limited by an advanced illness, to review life as a meaningful narrative. The role of mental time travel to construct or make sense of uncertain futures inherent in advanced illness can inform theory and targets for intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"415-433"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9512544","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}
Miriam Schilbach, Miriam Arnold, Anja Baethge, Thomas Rigotti
{"title":"Hindrance demands as a boundary condition to the appraisal of challenge demands.","authors":"Miriam Schilbach, Miriam Arnold, Anja Baethge, Thomas Rigotti","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2108019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2108019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Studies show that prototypical challenge demands can be appraised as challenging, hindering and threatening. Yet, to date there exists no clear reasoning as to why these different appraisals occur. Drawing on transactional stress theory, we propose that co-occurring hindrance demands likely affect the day-specific appraisal of challenge demands (i.e., time pressure and complexity).</p><p><strong>Design and method: </strong>To test this proposition we conducted a daily diary study with 432 employees. We tested our hypotheses using multi-level latent interaction analyses at the within-person level.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results revealed that on days when individuals experienced more hindrance demands, they were less likely to appraise time pressure and complexity as challenging and more likely to appraise them as hindering or threatening.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results outline the need to consider co-occurring hindrance demands when assessing appraisal patterns associated with challenge demands.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"434-443"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9513830","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 : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2022.2076083
Thomas J Harrison, Golda S Ginsburg, Isaac C Smith, Carissa M Orlando
{"title":"Youth stress generation: an examination of the role of anxiety, anxiety symptoms and cognitive distortions.","authors":"Thomas J Harrison, Golda S Ginsburg, Isaac C Smith, Carissa M Orlando","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2076083","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2076083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Stress generation suggests a reciprocal relationship between depression and prospective stressful life events. However, the applicability of stress generation to anxiety disorders has been understudied, particularly among youth. We address this gap by examining stress generation in youth at high-risk of developing anxiety disorders.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were one-hundred thirty-six at-risk youth (<i>M</i> age = 8.69, 84.6% Caucasian; 55.9% female), each of whom had a parent with an anxiety disorder. We examined the role of an anxiety disorder diagnosis, anxiety symptoms, and cognitive distortions in youth's prospective one and six-year stressful life events (i.e., stress generation).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Anxiety symptoms and cognitive distortions were significant predictors of one-year total dependent stress. Anxiety diagnosis and anxiety symptoms were significant predictors of one-year dependent interpersonal stress. Anxiety diagnosis and anxiety symptoms were significant predictors of six-year independent stress.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Support for the stress generation model was found in high-risk youth, but only over a one-year period. This suggests important effects of anxiety and cognitive distortions on stress generation, though their implications might be time-capped.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 3","pages":"304-319"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9666622/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9344996","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}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2023-05-01Epub Date: 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2022.2076082
Kelley J Sittner, Kaley A Herman, Miigis B Gonzalez, Melissa L Walls
{"title":"A longitudinal study of positive mental health and coping among Indigenous adults with type 2 diabetes.","authors":"Kelley J Sittner, Kaley A Herman, Miigis B Gonzalez, Melissa L Walls","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2076082","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2076082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Indigenous Peoples and scholars call for strengths-based approaches to research inclusive of Indigenous resiliency and positive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine positive mental health for Indigenous adults with type 2 diabetes and to determine if positive mental health is linked to community connectedness (a coping resource) and active coping (a coping response).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants (N = 194 at baseline) were randomly selected from clinical records, at least 18 years old with a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, and self-identified as American Indian.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Latent growth curve models revealed that average positive mental health was predicted to decrease over the four waves of the study, although not for participants with above-average active coping at baseline. Community connectedness at baseline was associated with higher initial levels of positive mental health. Within-person change in active coping and community connectedness were both associated with increases in positive mental health.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study aligns with previous research demonstrating that coping can influence health outcomes, and furthers the stress process literature by showing that active coping and community connectedness can impact positive mental health for Indigenous adults with Type 2 Diabetes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 3","pages":"339-352"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9674796/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9700795","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}
{"title":"Lexical indicators of anxiety in schizophrenia.","authors":"Monika Obrębska, Paweł Kleka","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2076081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2076081","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Anxiety is a dominant emotion in schizophrenia. It is most often diagnosed by questionnaire-based methods. In this study, it was decided to analyse the utterances of patients with schizophrenia for the occurrence of lexical indicators of anxiety, which are a good predictor of experienced anxiety and lie beyond the subject's control.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>The indicators most frequently described in the literature and considered to be of the most significant diagnostic value were selected: first-person pronouns and verbs; causal expressions and conjunctions; affirmative and negative particles; and dogmatic expressions. It was assumed that more of these would appear in the utterances of people with schizophrenia than in the utterances of healthy subjects.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study was conducted on 130 patients with paranoid schizophrenia and 130 healthy subjects. They were asked to describe five pictures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In all verbal indicators of anxiety (except for negative particles) patients with positive schizophrenia attained the highest values, differing significantly from the results for the control groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This result is consistent with the subject literature, which emphasizes the high level of anxiety in schizophrenia, especially in its first phase, when the generative symptoms of the illness predominate.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 3","pages":"382-397"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9338974","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":"Marriage and health: exploring the role of stress overload.","authors":"James H Amirkhan, Alissa B Vandenbelt","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2120196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2120196","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>The association between marital status and health is well-established, but its causes remain unclear. This study was the first to examine stress overload, the pathogenic form of stress, as a possible explanation.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>The study employed a cross-sectional design and convenience sample to explore relationships among stress overload, marital status, social support, and illness.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A diverse sample (<i>n</i> = 455), recruited from community and social media sites, completed an anonymous online survey. Included were standardized measures of stress overload (SOS-S), perceived social support (MSPSS), and somatic symptoms (PHQ-15).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Married participants reported lower stress overload levels than those in any other type of relationship (single, in-a-relationship, or cohabiting). They did not differ from the unmarried in overall level of social support, nor did statistically controlling social support or income levels erase the stress overload differential. They also reported lower levels of symptomology than the unmarried. SEM analyses yielded a best-fitting model showing stress overload to partially mediate the link between marital status and symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Stress overload is one mechanism that explains the marital health disparity, albeit not the only one. This holds implications for future research and practice focused on personal relationships and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 3","pages":"398-413"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9339007","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":"How does social complexity facilitate coping flexibility? The mediating role of dialectical thinking.","authors":"Hilary K Y Ng, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2117304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2117304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Past research has shown that worldviews can influence coping strategies but coping is often regarded as a stable person-based behavioral characteristic. The present research aims to examine how one component of worldviews - social complexity - influences the flexibility of coping strategies across situations.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>In two cross-sectional studies and one prospective study, we tested a mediation model in which the perceived complexity of the social world (i.e., social complexity) predicted coping flexibility through dialectical thinking.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across three studies, social complexity consistently facilitated dialectical thinking, which in turn fostered the cross-situational flexibility of coping strategies at a single time point and over 12 months.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Believing in complex causes of phenomena and multiple solutions to problems facilitates a cognitive style of viewing issues from multiple perspectives and tolerating contradictions, which are conducive to the flexible evaluation and implementation of effective strategies to cope with problems. Theoretical and practical implications of the present research are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 3","pages":"291-303"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9346288","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}