Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-12DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2615345
Fulei Geng, Xiaoyan Xiong, Lan Zhang
{"title":"A longitudinal investigation of the relationships among PTSD symptoms and various cognitive biases in children and adolescents.","authors":"Fulei Geng, Xiaoyan Xiong, Lan Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2615345","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2615345","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the prospective associations among cognitive biases, including negative appraisals, attention to threat, belief inflexibility, and jumping to conclusions, and to examine bidirectional relationships between PTSD symptoms and these biases.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 1,549 trauma-exposed children and adolescents (52.6% male; mean age = 13.66 years, SD = 1.24) were surveyed at baseline and one-year follow-up using self-report questionnaires. Cross-lagged models were used to examine significant associations via path analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Negative appraisals, attention to threat and PTSD symptoms prospectively predicted and were predicted by one another. No significant prospective links were found among attention to threat, belief inflexibility, and jumping to conclusions, although these variables showed strong concurrent correlations. Additionally, baseline PTSD symptoms and negative appraisals were associated with increased belief inflexibility at follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings reveal a vicious circle involving negative appraisals, attention to threat and PTSD symptoms in trauma-exposed children and adolescents. These cognitive biases play a critical role in the development and maintenance of PTSD. Interventions combining multiple forms of cognitive bias modification may enhance PTSD treatment and prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"455-466"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145960704","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 influence of unfinished tasks on subjective ease of falling asleep via negative emotions at work: a diary study.","authors":"Liliya Scafuri Kovalchuk, Vicente González-Romá, Cristian Balducci, Danila Molinaro, Paola Spagnoli","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2601226","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2601226","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although research on unfinished tasks began almost a century ago, the mechanisms through which unfinished tasks are related to sleep quality are not well-known.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>Building on previous studies but focusing on a new mediator, the aim of this study was to ascertain whether unfinished tasks may act as a workplace stressor and negatively impact subjective ease of falling asleep through the experience of negative emotions at work.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>By conducting a diary study, the hypothesized relationships were investigated in a sample of 126 employees followed for 10 consecutive working days. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to estimate the hypothesized relationships at the within-person and the between-person levels of analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed that unfinished tasks were negatively related to subjective ease of falling asleep through the experience of negative emotions at work at both levels.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In brief, our findings uncover one of the mechanisms linking unfinished tasks to employees' subjective ease of falling asleep, revealing that the observed relationships operate at the within-person and the between-person levels of analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"408-424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145716715","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-04DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2609987
Yoobin Park, Darwin A Guevarra, Julia O'Bryan, Wendy Berry Mendes
{"title":"The effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on romantic couples' physiology and behavior during conflict.","authors":"Yoobin Park, Darwin A Guevarra, Julia O'Bryan, Wendy Berry Mendes","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2609987","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2025.2609987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Conflicts with close others and subsequent affective reactions can have long-term consequences for mental and physical health. Building on recent studies using transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) highlighting the role of the vagus nerve in social functioning, we examined if tVNS can modulate the emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses to a romantic conflict.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Romantic couples (<i>N<sub>couples </sub></i>= 67; <i>N<sub>individuals </sub>= </i>134) were randomly assigned to tVNS or sham stimulation. Both partners received continuous tVNS or sham stimulation for 15 min before and during a six-minute discussion about a recurring conflict topic. We examined each partner's emotional and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) reactivity to conflict and the partners' physiological and behavioral attunement to each other.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results revealed no condition differences in emotional experiences, but individuals receiving tVNS (vs. sham stimulation) experienced greater decreases in RSA during conflict. Further, while RSA reactivity synchrony did not differ between conditions, couples in the tVNS (vs. sham stimulation) condition showed greater behavioral synchrony.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This work provides experimental evidence supporting the role of the vagus nerve in modulating reactions to stressful social interactions, highlighting the potential of tVNS to subtly influence couple dynamics at physiological and behavioral levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"440-454"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13255263/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145901034","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2615342
K A Chu, A V Metts, R E Zinbarg, R Nusslock, H Du, K Young, M G Craske
{"title":"Stress resilience: a predictor of social independence.","authors":"K A Chu, A V Metts, R E Zinbarg, R Nusslock, H Du, K Young, M G Craske","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2615342","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2615342","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although early life adversity (ELA) and life stress (CLS) are robust predictors of mental and physical health conditions in later life, many experience significant stressors without developing psychological or functional impairment. Stress resilience is the process of successfully adapting to stressors, or the maintenance or quick recovery of mental health during and following adversity. This study sought to identify factors associated with greater resiliency, focusing on three mechanisms implicated in the development of mood and anxiety disorders: reward, threat, and executive functioning.</p><p><strong>Design & methods: </strong>To address these gaps, the current study tested the relationship between resilience to ELA and CLS and reward, threat, and executive functioning in a sample of 190 young adults aged 18-19. Reward, threat, and executive functioning were tested using an extensive battery of behavioral measures.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found that higher stress resilience was significantly associated with lower social reward sensitivity, but was not associated with our measures of threat and executive functioning.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings may indicate that high stress resilience relates to lower dependency upon social feedback.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"481-494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145985800","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2616306
Mohsen Joshanloo, Murat Yıldırım, Leah Eunjung Kim
{"title":"A machine learning study of the predictors of fear of happiness in Turkey and the USA.","authors":"Mohsen Joshanloo, Murat Yıldırım, Leah Eunjung Kim","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2616306","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2616306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To identify key predictors of Fear of Happiness (FOH) by examining 22 psychological and demographic variables in Turkish and American samples using machine learning.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Random forest analyses were conducted on cross-sectional data from Turkish (<i>N</i> = 824) and American (<i>N</i> = 973) participants to estimate the relative importance of personality traits, attachment patterns, emotion regulation difficulties, existential beliefs, and demographic factors in predicting FOH.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Existential nihilism and difficulties in emotion regulation emerged as the strongest predictors of FOH in both cultures, followed by insecure attachment styles (anxious and avoidant) and perfectionism. Predictive performance was higher in the American sample. Culture-specific differences were observed, with neuroticism showing greater relative importance in the American sample and loneliness showing greater relative importance in the Turkish sample. Demographic variables (gender, age, and education) and ideological beliefs (religiosity and fatalism) showed minimal importance in both cultures.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings indicate that psychological variables (particularly existential nihilism, emotion regulation difficulties, and attachment styles) are more strongly associated with FOH than demographic or ideological factors. These results contribute to a clearer understanding of FOH across cultures, provide data-driven insights, and inform the development of hypotheses for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"495-512"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145985774","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 : 2026-07-01Epub Date: 2026-01-25DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2026.2620587
Minglee Yong
{"title":"Longitudinal effects of COVID-19 posttraumatic growth on college adjustment, depressive, and anxiety symptoms.","authors":"Minglee Yong","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2620587","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2620587","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Struggling through the stressful experience of the COVID-19 pandemic can foster posttraumatic growth (PTG), yet its lasting effects are not well understood. The study tracked 2,368 undergraduate and recently graduated students (56% female) between 18 and 30 years old (<i>M</i> = 21.61 years) over four online survey waves, six months apart (September 2022 to May 2024). Path analyses revealed that higher perceived PTG predicted better college adjustment and fewer depressive symptoms one year later, but only among female students. PTG had no effect on anxiety symptoms. COVID-19 stress was linearly associated with PTG, with a weakly curvilinear component. Optimism and social support contributed uniquely to perceived PTG, and social support further moderated the COVID-19 stress-PTG relation such that COVID-19 stress predicted PTG only for students with average and above average social support. These results support the predictive validity of perceived PTG and highlight the value of fostering PTG when coping with adversity, especially among women.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"467-480"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146047406","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}
Thijmen Van Alphen, Joost Jansen In De Wal, Jaap Schuitema, Thea Peetsma
{"title":"Teachers' future time perspective and work-related stress: a day-to-day investigation.","authors":"Thijmen Van Alphen, Joost Jansen In De Wal, Jaap Schuitema, Thea Peetsma","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2696306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2696306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Teachers often experience work-related stress as anxiety. Future time perspective (FTP) may shape anticipatory appraisal and coping, yet daily ordering with stress in teachers remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>15-workday diary study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Secondary school teachers in the Netherlands (<i>N</i> = 151; 1,269 daily reports) completed end-of-day questionnaires on work-related stress (state anxiety indicators) and two work-domain FTP facets: future-oriented cognition and future-oriented affect. Bayesian Dynamic Structural Equation Modeling separated within-teacher fluctuations from between-teacher differences and estimated concurrent and next-workday associations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Within teachers, stress was higher on days with more future-oriented cognition and lower with more positive future-oriented affect. No next-workday cross-lagged effects emerged. Between teachers, higher average future-oriented cognition co-occurred with higher average stress, whereas more positive average future-oriented affect co-occurred with lower average stress.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Future-oriented cognition is not uniformly protective and may reflect anticipatory worry when negatively toned, while positive future-oriented affect aligns with lower stress. Distinguishing cognitive from affective future orientation advances stress-and-coping research and suggests key processes may unfold within the workday.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148363913","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":"Post-October 7 antisemitism wave reawakening the past in Holocaust descendants: a serial mediation model.","authors":"Lee Greenblatt-Kimron, Amit Shrira","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2026.2692911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2692911","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>This study explored risk factors for sensitivity to the rise in global antisemitism (i.e., sensitivity to antisemitism) following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War. It specifically examined Holocaust centrality and intrusive linkage among Holocaust descendants (second and third generations of Holocaust survivors).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A random web-based national sample of 405 Jewish participants of European origin completed questionnaires across four waves.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>In T1 (May-November 2022), they reported familial Holocaust background and Holocaust centrality; in T3 (December 2023), they reported the intrusive linkage between the Holocaust and the Israel-Hamas War; and in T4 (July 2024), they reported sensitivity to antisemitism. T2 was not included in the current study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results showed that Holocaust descendants reported higher levels of Holocaust centrality, intrusive linkage, and sensitivity to antisemitism relative to comparisons. The serial mediation model showed that both Holocaust centrality and intrusive linkage mediated the effect of being a Holocaust descendant on sensitivity to antisemitism.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Results underscore the factors behind the increased preoccupation with antisemitism in Holocaust families. Practitioners should engage in interventions addressing these aspects in descendants of ancestral trauma, particularly when faced with current threats.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148341095","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 : 2026-05-01Epub Date: 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2025.2564330
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":"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":"356-369"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","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}