Kimberly S Sain, Kayla A Lord, Kelly A Knowles, Kate Everhardt, David F Tolin
{"title":"The relationship between momentary experiential avoidance and anxiety symptoms.","authors":"Kimberly S Sain, Kayla A Lord, Kelly A Knowles, Kate Everhardt, David F Tolin","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2383769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2383769","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Experiential avoidance (EA) may serve as a risk factor for a wide range of anxiety-related psychopathology. Anxiety is thought to trigger the use of EA, while also serving as a consequence of EA efforts. Previous ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies found that EA was associated with greater anxiety in nonclinical undergraduates and patients with social anxiety disorder.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The present study examined the in-the-moment, bidirectional relationship between EA, perceived stress, and two facets of anxiety (autonomic arousal and worry/misery) in a sample of treatment-seeking patients broadly diagnosed with an anxiety-related disorder (<i>N </i>= 46). Participants completed a baseline assessment followed by an EMA assessment period (assessments three times daily for seven days). We hypothesized that there would be a bidirectional relationship between EA and anxiety/stress.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results largely supported a unidirectional relationship such that greater EA at one time point predicted higher stress at a later time point controlling for previous stress levels and linear time. Trend-level associations between EA and anxiety symptoms are discussed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current study provides important insight into the relationship between EA and anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of participants with anxiety-related disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894876","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":"When talking goes awry: association between co-rumination and trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity in early and late adolescents.","authors":"Rebecca Cernik, Audrey-Ann Journault, Sandrine Charbonneau, Claudia Sauvageau, Charles-Édouard Giguère, Catherine Raymond, Sonia Lupien","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2388249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2388249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Friends are major sources of social support for adolescents. This support may sometimes lead to co-rumination when the problem is discussed exhaustively with a focus on negative feelings. Co-rumination has been associated with some forms of anxiety, including clinical symptoms. Further studies are needed to investigate whether this association extends to additional and non-clinical forms of anxiety in youth. This study aimed to explore the relationship between co-rumination and trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity using secondary data.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>In this 2019 cross-sectional study, 1204 (59% girls) Canadian 6th-grade early adolescents (ages 11-12) and 11th-grade late adolescents (ages 16-17) completed self-report questionnaires measuring co-rumination, trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Co-rumination was associated with anxiety sensitivity in early adolescents and with trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity in late adolescents.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Developmental factors may play a role in the association between co-rumination and different forms of anxiety. Anxiety sensitivity may appear alongside co-rumination in early adolescence and may broaden to trait and test anxiety in late adolescence. These results extend our understanding of the relationship between co-rumination and anxiety, as well as generate hypotheses for future longitudinal studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894877","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":"Future time perspective and depression, anxiety, and stress in adulthood.","authors":"Mathias Allemand, Gabriel Olaru, Patrick L Hill","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2383220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2383220","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Research has shown that perceptions of future time as limited are associated with more depressive symptoms. However, there is limited research on which dimensions of future time perspective (FTP: opportunity, extension, constraint) are associated with depression, anxiety, and stress, and whether these findings vary across age.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>Data came from a cross-sectional study in a nonclinical U.S. sample (<i>N</i> = 793, 48.0% male; 48.7% female; age: <i>M</i> = 50 years, range: 19-85 years), and local structural equation modeling was used to examine the moderating role of age as a continuous variable rather than artificial age groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For all dimensions of FTP, the perception of the future as limited was moderately to strongly associated with higher depression, anxiety and stress levels. More importantly, the association between the perceived constraint dimension and depression, anxiety, and stress was twice as large at younger ages than at older ages.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings indicate that perceived constraint is primarily a strong risk factor for or indicator of negative wellbeing in young adulthood, whereas perceived limited opportunity and extension are potential risk factors or indicators across the entire adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857065","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}
Helena F Alacha, Fayth C Walbridge, Helen C Harton, John M Vasko, Elizabeth A Bodalski, Yvette Rother, Elizabeth K Lefler
{"title":"Cognitive emotion regulation and learning effectiveness in college students with ADHD symptoms.","authors":"Helena F Alacha, Fayth C Walbridge, Helen C Harton, John M Vasko, Elizabeth A Bodalski, Yvette Rother, Elizabeth K Lefler","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2379986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2379986","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>College students with ADHD have difficulties with emotion regulation and have poorer academic skills than peers without ADHD; however, less is known regarding the relation between ADHD symptoms, maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS), and learning effectiveness.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We examined whether maladaptive CERS predicted learning effectiveness, and whether this relation was moderated by ADHD symptoms.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A cross-sectional online survey.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>College students (<i>N</i> = 4,183; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 19.24; 70.1% female) at eight universities completed a battery as part of a larger study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>College students in our elevated ADHD group used significantly more maladaptive CERS and performed worse in three domains of learning effectiveness (i.e., Academic Self-Efficacy [ASE], Organization and Attention to Study [OAS], Stress and Time Press [STP]) than college students in our non-ADHD group. Further, ADHD symptoms moderated the relation between maladaptive CERS and OAS, such that individuals with the highest levels of ADHD symptoms were less impacted by maladaptive CERS.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Increased use of <i>maladaptive</i> CERS is unique to ADHD rather than <i>lack of adaptive</i> CERS. Also, maladaptive CERS and low ADHD symptoms interact to predict poor OAS. Interventions for college students, regardless of ADHD status, should incorporate emotion regulation components to improve learning effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141635707","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":"Posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquake: exploring the role of demographics, level of exposure, and personality traits.","authors":"Yavuz Yılmaz, Sezen Güleç, Hakan Sarıçam","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2376611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2376611","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an important mental disorder that can develop after mass traumas such as earthquakes. In our study, we aimed to investigate the development of PTSD after the Turkey earthquake (6 February 2023) and its association with some demographic variables, personality traits, and psychological vulnerability.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>547 participants completed assessments of personality, disaster exposure, and PTSD symptoms. Multiple regression analyses were used to identify predictors of PTSD symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>PTSD scores were higher in women, single people, those with low educational level, those who witnessed someone else's injury or death, those who were injured, and those whose homes were destroyed. Physical injury, conscientiousness, marital status, income, and agreeableness predicted PTSD. Among these variables, physical injury was the strongest predictor of PTSD.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Psychological vulnerability, conscientiousness, physical injury, employment, witnessing someone else's injury, gender, and emotional stability predicted PTSD score in a significant way. Physical injury, conscientiousness, marital status, income, agreeableness predicted PTSD in a significant way.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141581485","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}
C Addison Helsper, Hannah B Faiman, W Holmes Finch, Jerrell Cassady
{"title":"Nothing means anything if everything means something: exploring the issues of coping profiles and the person-centered approach.","authors":"C Addison Helsper, Hannah B Faiman, W Holmes Finch, Jerrell Cassady","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2377380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2377380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adopting a person-centered approach to coping potentially allows researchers to explore the multifaceted nature of the construct. However, this increasingly adopted approach also has limitations. Namely, employing cluster or latent profile analysis to investigate coping through a person-centered lens often brings a lack of generalizability and subjectivity in interpreting the generated profiles. As such, this study aimed to explore the impact of varied methodology in person-centered investigations of coping profiles.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>682 university students' (<i>M</i> = 21.3 years old, <i>SD</i> = 3.5) responses to the COPE Inventory were analyzed across item, subscale, and higher-order category levels using cluster and latent profile analysis to produce 6 finalized models for cross-method comparison.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Throughout 19 analyses, approach coping, avoidance coping, low coping, and help-seeking profiles were consistently identified, alluding to the potential of universal coping trends. However, membership overlap across COPE structures and methodology was largely inconsistent, with individual participants classified into theoretically distinct profiles based on the methodology employed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>While evidence suggests latent profile analysis provides a more rigorous approach, the significant impact of minor methodological variations urges a reevaluation of person-centered approaches and incorporation of multi-construct data to enhance the understanding of coping profiles.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141581484","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":"Hearing laughter: a prescription for anxiety relief.","authors":"Lise Abrams, David J Therriault","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2373448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2024.2373448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anxiety can have adverse effects on cognition such as impairing test performance or restricting working memory. One way of reducing anxiety is through humor, and the present research investigated if the perception of laughter, which is often seen as a reaction to humor, could impact self-reported anxiety. Participants completed the STAI battery containing subscales for both state and trait anxiety before and after one of three manipulations: a laughter sounds rating task, a neutral sounds rating task, or a working memory span task. Results showed that perceiving laughter decreased both state and trait anxiety, taking a working memory test increased state anxiety, and perceiving neutral sounds had no effect on either type of anxiety. These findings are interpreted as evidence that the positive emotions induced by hearing laughter help to regulate anxiety by undoing arousal, even when negative emotions are not present.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141535944","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2265307
Benjamin R Meagher, Brynn Anderson
{"title":"There's no place like dorm: actual-ideal dorm ambiance as a unique predictor of undergraduate mental health.","authors":"Benjamin R Meagher, Brynn Anderson","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2265307","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2265307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>ABSTRACT</b>Undergraduate students are a high risk population for mental health challenges. Critically, residing in a setting that fails to evoke desired emotions and perceptions may have important implications for psychological wellbeing. Although previous research has investigated the relationship between student satisfaction and architecture/building amenities, little research has investigated how the ambiance of students' residences relates to mental health. Across a pair of studies, we evaluate the relationship between actual-ideal ambiance congruency (A-IAC) and mental health outcomes and mood. In Study 1, participants completed a pair of Q-sort tasks that required them to describe both their ideal room ambiance and their current room's actual ambiance. The discrepancy between these sorts was predictive of depressive symptoms, even when controlling for key covariates (e.g., personality, health, academics). In Study 2, these results were replicated among roommate pairs using dyadic analyses, while also being predictive of anxiety symptoms. Collectively, these studies reveal a novel environmental predictor of student wellbeing that can be of value for university staff. Ultimately, these findings suggest that having the ability to create one's ideal space may prove to be beneficial and possibly protective for the mental health of undergraduate university students.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"446-459"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41174944","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2280701
Yagmur Amanvermez, Eirini Karyotaki, Pim Cuijpers, Marketa Ciharova, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronald C Kessler, Anke M Klein, Reinout W Wiers, Leonore M de Wit
{"title":"Sources of stress among domestic and international students: a cross-sectional study of university students in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.","authors":"Yagmur Amanvermez, Eirini Karyotaki, Pim Cuijpers, Marketa Ciharova, Ronny Bruffaerts, Ronald C Kessler, Anke M Klein, Reinout W Wiers, Leonore M de Wit","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2280701","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2280701","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High perceived stress is associated with psychological and academic difficulties among college students. In this study, we aimed to investigate associations of student status (international vs domestic student in the Netherlands) with eight common sources of stress (i.e., financial, health, love life, relationship with family, relationship with people at work/ school, the health of loved ones, other problems of loved ones, and life in general). Participants were 2,196 college students (domestic: <i>n</i> = 1,642, international: <i>n</i> = 554) from two universities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Hierarchical linear regression analyses were used to estimate associations of student status with all eight sources of stress. Student status was significantly associated with higher levels of perceived stress in almost all life domains. International student status was significantly associated with higher perceived stress in the domains of financial situation and health of loved ones after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and other sources of stress. Findings highlight that several differences exist in the magnitude of perceived stress in certain areas between international and domestic students in the Netherlands. Consequently, it is essential to uncover the different needs of college students and develop specific strategies to deliver the most suitable services.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"428-445"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138479266","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2270417
Jenna L Vieira, Bailee L Malivoire, Naomi Koerner, David Sumantry
{"title":"An examination of worry and self-distancing as coping strategies for anxiety-provoking experiences in individuals high in worry.","authors":"Jenna L Vieira, Bailee L Malivoire, Naomi Koerner, David Sumantry","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2270417","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2270417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This preliminary online study investigated the short-term effects of self-distancing, worry, and distraction on anxiety and worry-related appraisals among individuals high in worry.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong><i>N</i> = 104 community members high in trait worry were randomly assigned to think about a personally identified worry-provoking situation using self-distancing (SC), worry (WC), or distraction (DC). Participants rated their anxiety (Visual Analogue Scale for Anxiety) and appraisals of the situation (Perceived Probability, Coping, and Cost Questions) at post-task and one-day follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Mixed factorial ANOVAs revealed an increase in anxiety within the WC (<i>d</i> = .475) and no difference in anxiety within the SC (<i>d</i> = .010) from pre- to post-task. There was no difference in anxiety within the DC (<i>p</i> = .177). Participants within the SC reported a decrease in the perceived cost associated with their identified situation from pre- to post-task (<i>d</i> = .424), which was maintained at one-day follow-up (<i>d</i> = .034). Participants reported an increase in perceived ability to cope from post-task to one-day follow-up (<i>d</i> = .236), and from pre-task to one-day follow-up (<i>d</i> = .338), regardless of condition.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Self-distancing may prevent increases in anxiety and catastrophizing while reflecting on a feared situation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"515-528"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49693781","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}