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Simply breathing anxiety away? A pilot, just-in-time ecological momentary intervention study of one-minute cyclic sighing versus box breathing as tools for acute anxiety reduction and attention promotion in real life. 简单地呼吸消除焦虑？一项试点，即时生态瞬间干预研究，一分钟循环叹气与盒子呼吸作为现实生活中急性焦虑减少和注意力促进的工具。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2659809

Elisabeth M Riedl, Teresa Bracklo, Kathrin Wimmer, Johanna Perzl, Hans-Juergen Gdynia, Joachim Thomas, Janusz Surzykiewicz

{"title":"Simply breathing anxiety away? A pilot, just-in-time ecological momentary intervention study of one-minute cyclic sighing versus box breathing as tools for acute anxiety reduction and attention promotion in real life.","authors":"Elisabeth M Riedl, Teresa Bracklo, Kathrin Wimmer, Johanna Perzl, Hans-Juergen Gdynia, Joachim Thomas, Janusz Surzykiewicz","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2659809","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2659809","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: In this preregistered pilot study, we conducted a just-in-time ecological momentary intervention to examine the real-life effects of two different one-minute breathing exercises on state anxiety and attention in acute threat situations among university students, with trait anxiety serving as a moderator.Methods: During acute threat situations, 47 participants completed a short questionnaire assessing state anxiety. They were subsequently assigned to one of three conditions: box breathing, cyclic sighing or a passive control condition. Five minutes later, state anxiety and attention were measured.Results: Compared with the control condition, both box breathing and cyclic sighing were associated with greater reductions in state anxiety. Interestingly, the students made fewer inhibition errors in the attention test after the box breathing condition. This effect was more pronounced for individuals with high levels of trait anxiety. Unexpectedly, box breathing and cyclic sighing were negatively related to attention efficiency: there were longer reaction times after the breathing exercises than after the control condition.Conclusions: This study suggests that box breathing and cyclic sighing may be effective methods for reducing anxiety in everyday life.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"608-622"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147724611","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}

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Emotion polyregulation and daily negative affect: predictors of use and strategy-level effectiveness. 情绪多重调节和日常负性情绪：使用和策略层面有效性的预测因子。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2640041

Eva E Dicker, Stephanie L Leal, Bryan T Denny

{"title":"Emotion polyregulation and daily negative affect: predictors of use and strategy-level effectiveness.","authors":"Eva E Dicker, Stephanie L Leal, Bryan T Denny","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2640041","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2640041","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Emotion polyregulation is an essential aspect of responding to stressful events by employing multiple strategies to influence one's emotions. The patterns of emotion polyregulation that effectively mitigate negative affect remain largely unknown.Objectives: The aim of the current study is to examine the relationship between adaptive real-world usage of daily emotion polyregulation and daily negative affect, considering differences in emotional intensity and momentary synergistic strategy selection.Methods: During March-June 2023, 106 university students completed a 7-day ecological momentary assessment procedure reporting on emotion polyregulation usage and negative affect between two in-person lab sessions, with supplementary measurement of heart rate variability (HRV) and cognitive control ability.Results: Higher event intensity and lower emotion dysregulation predicted greater strategy use during an emotional event. Additionally, greater event intensity and emotion dysregulation predicted greater daily negative affect. Within instances of polyregulation, greater use of situation selection and reinterpretation predicted lower daily negative affect.Conclusions: These findings shed light on which individual differences and situational factors predict emotion polyregulation use. Practically, these findings can inform the development of targeted emotion polyregulation interventions that train individuals to deploy adaptive strategies (i.e., situation selection and reinterpretation) particularly in high-intensity contexts where regulation is most needed.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"553-570"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147437429","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}

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German adaptation and validation of the coping flexibility scale in healthy individuals and patients with lymphedema. 健康个体和淋巴水肿患者应对灵活性量表的德国适应与验证。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-08-26 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2723804

Katharina Loibnegger-Traußnig, Andreas R Schwerdtfeger, Franz Flaggl

{"title":"German adaptation and validation of the coping flexibility scale in healthy individuals and patients with lymphedema.","authors":"Katharina Loibnegger-Traußnig, Andreas R Schwerdtfeger, Franz Flaggl","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2723804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2723804","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Coping flexibility - the ability to abandon ineffective coping strategies and adopt alternative approaches - is a relatively new construct in stress research. A German version of the Coping Flexibility Scale-Revised (CFS-R) has been lacking and new approaches in stress management for patients with lymphedema are warranted. This study aimed to translate and validate the CFS-R in German and to examine its predictive utility for perceived stress.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted comprising two samples: Sample 1 (healthy individuals (N = 306)) and Sample 2 (patients with lymphedema (N = 493)). The CFS-R was translated following standard guidelines, and participants completed a set of psychological questionnaires. Factor structure, reliability, and predictive validity were assessed.Results: The original 3-factor CFS-R structure was confirmed in both samples. Coping flexibility subscales accounted for 15.5% of the variance in perceived stress. Recoping and psychological flexibility predicted lower stress, while metacoping and abandonment were not significant. Results did not differ for samples.Discussion: The German CFS-R demonstrated good reliability and validity. Recoping flexibility emerged as a central predictor of lower stress in both healthy and clinical populations. Coping flexibility appears relevant for stress regulation.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148834631","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}

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Social stress and refugee mental health: investigating the role of interpersonal emotion regulation. 社会压力与难民心理健康：人际情绪调节作用的研究。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-08-19 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2717097

Nabeeha Rahman, Angela Nickerson, Philippa Specker, Meaghan O'Donnell, Tadgh McMahon, Vicki Mau, Richard Bryant, Yulisha Byrow, Belinda Liddell

{"title":"Social stress and refugee mental health: investigating the role of interpersonal emotion regulation.","authors":"Nabeeha Rahman, Angela Nickerson, Philippa Specker, Meaghan O'Donnell, Tadgh McMahon, Vicki Mau, Richard Bryant, Yulisha Byrow, Belinda Liddell","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2717097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2717097","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Refugees experience a myriad of stressors, with social stressors having particularly adverse effects on mental health. This study examined interpersonal emotion regulation (ER), whereby individuals draw on social support to regulate their own emotions, as a potential mechanism underlying this effect.Design: A sample of 561 refugees in Australia completed a survey assessing exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs), social and practical post-migration stressors, interpersonal ER, and posttraumatic stress, depression, and anger symptoms.Methods: A confirmatory factor analysis validated a three-factor structure of the Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Enhancing Positive Affect, Soothing, and Social Perspective Taking). Structural equation modeling tested direct associations between PTE exposure, social and practical stressors and latent mental health factors, and indirect associations between PTE exposure and stressors, and mental health factors, through the three latent interpersonal ER factors.Results: Higher social stress was associated with elevated depression through reduced engagement of all interpersonal ER strategies. Additionally, greater trauma was associated with decreased depression through increased use of all interpersonal ER strategies.Conclusions: By reducing engagement of interpersonal ER, social stressors may be particularly harmful for refugee mental health and may be an important target mechanism to enhance coping in refugees.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801370","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}

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Trajectories of grief following bereavement: a systematic review. 丧亲之痛后的悲伤轨迹：系统回顾。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-08-16 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2705416

Maarten C Eisma, Lise van Rhee, Julia A Gast, Lonneke I M Lenferink

{"title":"Trajectories of grief following bereavement: a systematic review.","authors":"Maarten C Eisma, Lise van Rhee, Julia A Gast, Lonneke I M Lenferink","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2705416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2705416","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: Following bereavement, a minority experiences severe, persistent, and disabling grief, termed prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Establishing individual differences in how grief develops over time can guide clinical decision-making, yet has only recently received empirical scrutiny. The present review synthesizes results from grief trajectory studies.Design: Systematic review (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42024601883).Method: We included peer-reviewed, longitudinal, quantitative studies that identify grief trajectories in bereaved adults. Searches of Web of Science, PsycINFO, and PubMed (October 18, 2024) identified 272 potentially relevant papers. Thirteen articles, reporting on 12 studies and 14 trajectory analyses, were selected.Results: Latent growth mixture modeling (and similar approaches) identified two to five trajectories. On average, chronic grief was identified in 10% of participants (in 13 analyses), recovery in 33% of participants (in 12 analyses), and resilience in 55% of participants (in 13 analyses). Most consistent correlates of more severe grief trajectories were younger age, lower education levels, and the death of a child/partner.Conclusions: Recovery appears more common and resilience less common after bereavement than after other stressful life-events. There is limited evidence for a delayed grief trajectory. Younger adults with lower education levels who lost a child/partner appear at risk for chronic grief.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148763483","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}

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Climate change anxiety is associated with increases in generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms over one year (but not vice versa). 气候变化焦虑与一年内广泛性焦虑和抑郁症状的增加有关（反之亦然）。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-07-22 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2706646

Hannes Zacher, Clara Kühner

{"title":"Climate change anxiety is associated with increases in generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms over one year (but not vice versa).","authors":"Hannes Zacher, Clara Kühner","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2706646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2706646","url":null,"abstract":"Background: An increasing number of people report experiencing climate change anxiety, defined as anxiety and worry about anthropogenic climate change. Previous cross-sectional research showed that climate change anxiety is associated with reduced mental health.Objectives: The goal of this time-lagged study was to obtain a better understanding of the temporal directions underlying relations between climate change anxiety and generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms, respectively.Design: A two-wave survey study with measurement occasions separated by one year was conducted to explore potential reciprocal relations between climate change anxiety, generalized anxiety, and depressive symptoms.Methods: Data came from 1,897 employed adults in Germany and were analyzed using structural equation modeling.Results: Higher levels of climate change anxiety were associated with subsequent increases in both generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms across one year, with and without controlling for age, gender, environmental attitudes, and experience of climate change. In contrast, generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms were not significantly associated with subsequent changes in climate change anxiety.Conclusions: These findings suggest that experiencing climate change anxiety is associated with changes in people's mental health over time, whereas no evidence was found for associations between mental health and subsequent changes in climate change anxiety.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148551118","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}

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Affective executive function performance predicts distinct trajectories of mental health: a growth mixture model. 情感执行功能表现预测心理健康的不同轨迹：一个增长混合模型。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2706652

Patricia Mecha, Yannick Vander Zwalmen, Kristof Hoorelbeke, Ernst H W Koster, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez

{"title":"Affective executive function performance predicts distinct trajectories of mental health: a growth mixture model.","authors":"Patricia Mecha, Yannick Vander Zwalmen, Kristof Hoorelbeke, Ernst H W Koster, Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2706652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2706652","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The analysis of temporal processes of psychological functioning over time has been used to identify differential response patterns to stress. However, the mechanisms underlying such trajectories remain unclear.Objectives: This study examined the role of baseline affective Executive Functions (EFs) in predicting temporal trajectories of psychological functioning following a naturalistic stressor.Methods: A longitudinal design assessed mental health levels across five time points in a sample of 152 young adults. Working memory updating (WMU) and affective attentional flexibility were evaluated within affective contexts. The emotional 2-back task (as a measure of WMU) and the Attentional Flexibility Task (i.e., AFT) were administered at baseline (T1) and analyzed as predictors of trajectory class membership.Results: Growth Mixture Modeling (GMM) analyses identified a three-class model consisting of individuals showing stable (73.7%), improving (19.1%), and worsening (7.2%) mental health trajectories following the stressor. WMU indices emerged as significant predictors of such trajectories, with accuracy scores being more important predictors than reaction time indices.Conclusions: These findings suggest that better executive performance, particularly in WMU, is associated with more adaptive patterns of psychological functioning over time.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148551093","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}

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Did perceived stress and intolerance of uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic worsen mental health? A longitudinal study of depressive symptoms. 在COVID-19大流行期间，感知到的压力和对不确定性的不容忍是否会恶化心理健康？抑郁症状的纵向研究。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-07-16 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2702369

Ariel P Boyle, Florencia Trespalacios, Alexandra Haddad, Mark A Ellenbogen

{"title":"Did perceived stress and intolerance of uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic worsen mental health? A longitudinal study of depressive symptoms.","authors":"Ariel P Boyle, Florencia Trespalacios, Alexandra Haddad, Mark A Ellenbogen","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2702369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2702369","url":null,"abstract":"Background and objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic was marked by global uncertainty, fluctuating safety measures, and major changes to daily living. For those high in intolerance of uncertainty (IU), depressive symptoms emerged or worsened. We examined whether perceived stress mediated the relationship between impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on symptoms of depression over time, and whether IU moderated these associations.Methods: 207 adults living in Quebec, Canada, completed an online questionnaire battery at three timepoints, each three months apart, between May 2020 and January 2021.Results: Occupation-related impacts of the pandemic (e.g., changes in income, lay-offs) at time 1 positively predicted perceived stress at time 2, in turn positively predicting depressive symptoms at time 3. Surprisingly, the indirect effect was significant for individuals with low and medium IU, who were sensitive to the actual occupational impacts of the pandemic experienced, but not for those with high IU. Levels of perceived stress were highest overall among individuals with high IU and not significantly predicted by pandemic-related occupational impacts.Conclusions: Results highlight that there may be a higher susceptibility to perceived stress and depressive symptoms in persons with high intolerance of uncertainty, irrespective of the extent of actual occupational impacts endured during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148474059","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}

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Reappraising stress-related arousal enhances prosocial behavior in individuals perceiving the intervention as effective. 重新评估压力相关的觉醒可以增强个体的亲社会行为，这些个体认为干预是有效的。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2615347

Laura Oswald, Jeremy P Jamieson, Fabian Dvorak, Markus Heinrichs, Bastian Schiller

{"title":"Reappraising stress-related arousal enhances prosocial behavior in individuals perceiving the intervention as effective.","authors":"Laura Oswald, Jeremy P Jamieson, Fabian Dvorak, Markus Heinrichs, Bastian Schiller","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2615347","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2615347","url":null,"abstract":"Background: While psychological stress is increasing globally, the conditions under which stress facilitates or hinders prosocial behavior remain elusive. To resolve heterogeneous findings, it is essential to consider the modulatory effects of individuals' appraisals of stress as challenging versus threatening. Here, we tested the hypothesis that strengthening an individual's challenge appraisal under stress will enhance prosocial behavior.Methods: 121 individuals (62 women, 59 men) participated in the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups. Participants were instructed to either reappraise their upcoming arousal as adaptive (n = 61) or they performed a reading exercise without instructions on how to cope with the psychosocial stressor (n = 60). Participants then engaged in incentivised resource allocation games. The study's design and sample characteristics were preregistered as a clinical trial (DRKS00027518).Results: We observed no general effect of arousal reappraisal on prosocial behavior. However, reappraising stress-related arousal as a functional resource did enhance prosocial behavior in individuals who had internalized the message and found this intervention to be effective.Conclusion: Our findings suggest that cognitive stress appraisals modulate behavioral stress effects, and appraisals can be leveraged to help improve stress-related response and outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"425-439"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146203803","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}

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Unfinished work tasks and work-related thoughts during off-job time: meta-analysis of the Zeigarnik effect in a work-recovery context. 工作时间未完成工作任务与工作相关思维：工作-恢复背景下蔡加尼克效应的元分析

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2616302

Johannes Wendsche, Oliver Weigelt, Christine J Syrek

{"title":"Unfinished work tasks and work-related thoughts during off-job time: meta-analysis of the Zeigarnik effect in a work-recovery context.","authors":"Johannes Wendsche, Oliver Weigelt, Christine J Syrek","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2616302","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2616302","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In work and organizational psychology, substantial empirical evidence shows that unfinished tasks act as job stressors, impairing workers' recovery. Building on (Zeigarnik, B. (1927). Das Behalten erledigter und unerledigter Handlungen [The memory of completed and uncompleted actions]. Psychologische Forschung, 9, 1-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02409755) findings on memory advantages for incomplete tasks, we aimed to synthesize the relationships between unfinished work tasks and work-related thoughts during off-job time.Method: We conducted a random-effects meta-analysis at the between-person level (k = 17, N = 2,473) and the within-person level (k = 14, N = 12,129). We meta-analytically tested potential study-related moderators (e.g., work-related thoughts assessment) and identified additional moderators through a qualitative review.Results: Unfinished work tasks were positively related to work-related thoughts during off-job time, with significantly stronger associations at the between-person (ρbetween = .382) than at the within-person level (ρwithin = .247). Associations were strongest for (affective) rumination as the outcome. Among the study characteristics, only the proportion of females emerged as a significant moderator. Additional moderators identified in the qualitative review included goal valence, action regulation and goal-related strategies, trait temporal focus, and supervisory performance expectations.Conclusion: Unfinished work tasks are associated with increased work-related thoughts during off-job time, potentially hindering recovery. A more comprehensive theoretical integration of moderating factors is needed to advance understanding and inform intervention efforts.","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"385-407"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146004570","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}

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