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}
{"title":"The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations.","authors":"Sabrina Gado, Janna Teigeler, Kaja Kümpel, Madita Schindler, Matthias Gamer","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2424919","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2424919","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>This multimodal two-phase study investigated the impact of trait social anxiety on exploration, social attention, and autonomic responses in a naturalistic setting. We expected higher avoidance of potentially crowded spaces, reduced visual attention on other people, and heightened physiological arousal in social situations for participants with higher social anxiety levels.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>Eighty-seven participants, pre-screened for high variance in trait social anxiety, first completed a half-hour walk on a freely chosen route and subsequently had a staged social interaction with a confederate consisting of a non-interactive waiting phase and a short conversation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>While social anxiety did not modulate the choice of route during the walk phase, socially anxious participants avoided gazing at other individuals in non-interactive situations, i.e., during the walk and the waiting phase. In contrast, during actual interaction, they showed increased visual attention towards the confederate's face. Across all experimental phases, highly socially anxious individuals showed elevated heart rates, but this effect was independent of the social context.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study showed that social anxiety affects social exploration behavior not in a way of general avoidance, but rather in nuanced adaptations depending on the concrete situation, likelihood of interaction and associated socio-evaluative threat.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"326-342"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142584849","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: 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2403437
Kehan Li, Eric M Cooke, Yao Zheng
{"title":"Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults' daily well-being.","authors":"Kehan Li, Eric M Cooke, Yao Zheng","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2403437","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2403437","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Anxiety disorders are prevalent among youth and adults. Increasing studies examined the dynamic associations between momentary fluctuations of anxiety and well-being, primarily focusing on the severity of general anxiety. Scant research has explored the co-fluctuations between different anxiety symptoms and mental health outcomes.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The current study evaluated the multi-level factor structure and assessed the subclinical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobia (SP), and panic disorder (PD) in a sample of non-clinical young adults (<i>N</i> = 271, Mage = 18 years, 72% female, 68% non-White) who participated in a 30-day daily diary study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between persons, GAD, SP, and PD were positively correlated with depressive symptoms, stress, as well as emotional and peer problems. Within persons, both SP and PD were positively associated with stress, peer and emotional problems on the same day. Across days, there was positive reciprocal relation between PD and stress, whereas negative reciprocal link was observed between SP and emotional problems.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Current findings showed dynamic and distinct patterns in the associations between different anxiety symptoms and several mental health outcomes, which emphasizes the need to disentangle between- and within-person variation of anxiety symptoms with intensive longitudinal designs.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"349-364"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300494","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: 2024-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2399086
Rachel M Butler, Simona C Kaplan, Richard G Heimberg
{"title":"Social anxiety and weight interact with body salience to affect experiences of social exclusion.","authors":"Rachel M Butler, Simona C Kaplan, Richard G Heimberg","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2399086","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2399086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Individuals at a higher weight experience greater victimization and exclusion by peers, and limited research suggests that the salience of one's body image may increase negative emotional reactions to social rejection. Additionally, social exclusion is related to higher levels of social anxiety (SA). We examined how body salience interacts with SA and weight to predict anxiety, self-esteem, and negative affect following social rejection.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were undergraduate women (<i>N</i> = 186). We explored the interactive effects of SA, body mass index (BMI), and body salience (i.e., face versus body photo condition) on emotional response to exclusion in a social ostracism paradigm, Cyberball. BMI and self-reported SA were collected at baseline. One week later, participants played Cyberball and reported state affect, anxiety, and self-esteem before and after the game.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The 3-way interaction of BMI, SA, and photo condition did not significantly predict post-exclusion state measures. Photo condition moderated the relationship between SA and post-exclusion anxiety and between BMI and post-exclusion anxiety.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Those with higher SA were particularly anxious following exclusion if their bodies were visible to others. Additionally, those with lower BMI experienced greater anxiety after exclusion when their body was visible than those with higher BMI.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"313-325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121138","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: 2025-02-12DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2457625
David J Disabato, Emily A Gawlik, T H Stanley Seah, Karin G Coifman
{"title":"Boosting positive mood during stress: a Daily Coping Toolkit replication in college undergraduates.","authors":"David J Disabato, Emily A Gawlik, T H Stanley Seah, Karin G Coifman","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2457625","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2457625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>College students face significant mental health challenges that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence suggests mental-health burdens are substantial and resources limited. We sought to replicate research supporting a one-time daily ambulatory intervention to facilitate regulation of negative emotion and increase generation of positive emotion. The Daily Coping Toolkit (DCT) was developed at the outset of the pandemic and was effective in boosting mood in front-line medical personnel in an open-trial (Coifman, K. G., et al. [2021]. <i>Occupational and Environmental Medicine</i>, <i>78</i>(8), 555-557. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2021-107427.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This investigation replicated the DCT against a control condition in college students returning to campus in early 2021. N = 125 college students were randomized to experimental conditions (two-prompt v. one-prompt) or the control condition. Data analysis was preregistered.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analyses indicated students in experimental groups experienced significant decreases in negative and increases in positive emotion when compared to controls, providing evidence of efficacy. This was notable because a high proportion of participants reported prior mental illness. Although there was no difference by number of prompts (two-prompt v. one-prompt) on emotional reports, there was preliminary evidence the one-prompt condition was associated with greater self-care behaviors (e.g., exercise, social support seeking).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results suggest the DCT is an efficacious emotion-regulation intervention that can boost mood during stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"286-300"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143400536","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}
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":"https://doi.org/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":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","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}
{"title":"Hopelessness mediates the relationship between self-perceptions of aging and negative affect: within-person results from the health and retirement study.","authors":"Mohsen Joshanloo","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2490738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2490738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Backgrounds and objectives: </strong>The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of self-perceptions of aging on positive and negative affect and to examine whether this association is mediated by sense of hopelessness. It was hypothesized that increases in positive self-perceptions of aging would be associated with decreases in hopelessness over time, which in turn would be associated with higher future levels of affective well-being.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study used longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study collected in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 (N ≈ 11,500, average age ≈ 62). The random-intercept cross-lagged panel model was used for analyzing the data. The mediation was tested at the temporal within-person level.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mediation hypothesis was supported for negative affect but not for positive affect. The results showed that higher-than-typical levels of positive perceptions of aging were associated with lower-than-typical levels of hopelessness, which in turn was related to lower-than-typical future levels of negative affect.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Hopelessness mediates the longitudinal relationship between self-perceptions of aging and negative affect. The findings emphasize the significance of considering hope in interventions designed to address negative affect and subjective beliefs about aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144040338","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":"Dyadic coping strategies of Turkish couples and dyadic adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"F Isil Bilican, Zahide Tepeli Temiz","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2489372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2489372","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>External stressful experiences are often linked to poor relationship functioning. Current research examined the association between COVID-19 stress and dyadic adjustment (DA) and tested whether the strength of this association was dependent on specific forms of dyadic coping (DC). Under COVID-19 stress, stress communication and supportive and common DC were expected to be related to higher levels of DA.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional data were collected from 102 married couples in Turkey. The mean age of men and women was 34.77 years (<i>SD</i> = 8.71) and 32.37 years (<i>SD</i> = 8.06), respectively. Data were analyzed using Actor-Partner Interdependence Moderation Models (APIMoM) with multilevel modeling.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings indicated that COVID-19 stress tended to decrease DA. Partners' increased use of emotion-focused supportive DC and effective stress communication buffered the detrimental effect of COVID-19 stress on DA.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that couple interventions in Turkey focusing on the enhancement of emotional expression, stress communication, and validation of the partner may help mitigate the adverse impacts of acute crises on relational well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144050402","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}
Elizabeth T Kneeland, Mabel Shanahan, Chéla Cunningham, Isabella Lattuada, Jason Moser, Hans S Schroder
{"title":"Associations of specific emotion and symptom mindsets with clinical symptoms, treatment attitudes, and treatment preference.","authors":"Elizabeth T Kneeland, Mabel Shanahan, Chéla Cunningham, Isabella Lattuada, Jason Moser, Hans S Schroder","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2480115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2480115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>One psychological factor that relates to individuals' level of emotional distress and how they view coping with that distress is the <i>mindsets</i> they hold about the nature of emotions and clinical symptoms.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The current study (N = 978 undergraduate students; M<sub>age </sub>= 19.01 years, 71.9% female, 68.9% White/Caucasian) used repeated measures General Linear Models (GLMs) and multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVAs) to examine the relationships between mindsets in specific domains - malleability, function, and individual aspects of emotions - and which mindsets in each domain have the strongest relationships with clinical symptoms, treatment attitudes, and treatment preference. This statistical approach allows us to examine the relative strength in the relationships between specific mindsets within a particular domain (e.g., malleability) and study outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>When all mindsets in a specific domain (e.g., malleability, function, or specific facet of emotion) were included as simultaneous predictors in analyses, certain mindsets held specific relationships with outcomes. For example, more malleable mindsets about anxiety had the stronger relationships with anxiety symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The current study clarified that certain mindsets held the strongest relationship with specific outcomes, such as the anxiety malleability mindset with anxiety symptoms, while certain mindsets had equally strong relationships with symptoms and treatment attitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143675060","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}
Beata A Basinska, Wilmar Schaufeli, Ewa Gruszczynska
{"title":"Burnout, work-related daily negative affect and rumination: a mediation model combining an intensive and longitudinal design.","authors":"Beata A Basinska, Wilmar Schaufeli, Ewa Gruszczynska","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2471325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2025.2471325","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study aims to examine the relationship between daily negative affect and rumination in the context of work and to verify their mediating roles in the process of burnout.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A classic longitudinal design with two measurement points for burnout was combined with 10 daily online assessments of negative affect and rumination among 235 civil servants.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A random intercept cross-lagged panel model was implemented. Carryover, cross-lagged, and same-day relationships between work-related negative affect and rumination were analysed from a within-person perspective. The results did not confirm reproducible carryover and cross-lagged effects. The only significant positive associations were found for same-day relationships. At the between-person level, a mediation model of the random intercepts of negative affect and rumination between two burnout measurements was tested. Negative affect was positively related to rumination; however, only negative affect partially mediated the relationship between burnout levels over a four-month interval.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study clarifies the role of rumination in the process of job burnout. First, after removing stable interpersonal differences, reciprocal effects between daily negative affect and daily rumination could not be confirmed. Second, work-related affect may longitudinally play a greater role in burnout exacerbation than ruminating on work.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143538065","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}