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}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2376611
Yavuz Yılmaz, Sezen Güleç, Hakan Sarıçam
{"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":"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":"181-192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","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}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2383769
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":"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":"193-205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","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}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2388843
Brian Lakey
{"title":"Evidence that specific personal relationships help regulate depressive symptoms and related constructs among people with probable major depressive disorder.","authors":"Brian Lakey","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2388843","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2388843","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Relational regulation theory describes how social network members (<i>providers of regulation</i>) help people (<i>recipients of regulation</i>) regulate their effect, actions and thoughts through mostly ordinary social interaction. Regulation is relational when the ability of a provider to regulate a recipient is an emergent property of the dyad and not a stable property of the provider or recipient. Research in predominantly well samples has found that dyads evoked affect and self-relevant thought in recipients. The present research examined whether such effects occurred among people with probable major depressive disorder (MDD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A national, internet sample of 2058 US residents was screened for probable MDD. Depressed recipients (N = 152) rated their experience of depression-related constructs when with or thinking about specific providers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Recipients' reports of affect and thought varied strongly depending on the dyad they were with or thinking about. These effects occurred for depressive symptoms, positive and negative affect, self-esteem, negative automatic thoughts, hopelessness, excessive reassurance-seeking, reappraisal and emotion suppression. Dyads that evoked depression-related experiences were seen by participants as unsupportive and as evoking conflict.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Relational regulation appears to occur among people with MDD which provides new insights about interpersonal processes in depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"247-261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141908277","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 : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2392195
Yi Ling Tan, Vina Yang Xiu Chang, Wei How Darryl Ang, Wen Wei Ang, Ying Lau
{"title":"Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials.","authors":"Yi Ling Tan, Vina Yang Xiu Chang, Wei How Darryl Ang, Wen Wei Ang, Ying Lau","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2392195","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2392195","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Virtual reality exposure therapy offers a unique opportunity to treat social anxiety disorder. This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality exposure therapy compared to waitlist comparators or other interventions for individuals with social anxiety disorder in alleviating anxiety symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A three-step comprehensive search for the randomized controlled trials of virtual reality exposure therapy was conducted from inception to 7 December 2023. The overall effect was measured using Hedges' <i>g</i> and determined using <i>t</i>-statistics at a significance level of <i>p</i> < 0.05. Sensitivity, subgroup, and meta-regression analyses were carried out.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 17 randomized control trials were retrieved from nine electronic databases. Virtual reality exposure therapy has greater efficacy than waitlist comparators in reducing anxiety symptoms at post-intervention and follow-up assessment. Virtual reality exposure therapy demonstrates a similar effect to other interventions at post-intervention and follow-up assessment. We observed a greater effect for participants with symptomatic social anxiety when we combined the intervention with cognitive behavioral therapy compared to its counterpart. Meta-regression analyses found no significant covariate.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, virtual reality exposure therapy can provide supplementary therapy for improving anxiety symptoms. Additional high-quality and large-scale trials with long-term follow-up are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"141-160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005827","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 : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2393207
Çağrı Öğüt
{"title":"Reflection impulsivity in patients with panic disorder.","authors":"Çağrı Öğüt","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2393207","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2393207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Individuals with panic disorder (PD) often exhibit a proclivity to conclude that an imminent catastrophe looms, drawing such conclusions from limited physical information. Reflection impulsivity, characterized by decision-making without adequate information, likely affects this bias. This study examines the relationship between reflection impulsivity and self-report impulsive features in individuals with PD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Fifty patients with PD and 50 healthy controls (HC) participated to this study. Reflection impulsivity was assessed using the Information Sampling Task (IST), while trait impulsivity was measured using the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS). Participants also completed the Beck Anxiety Inventory, Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (P&A), and Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (ASI-3).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Individuals with PD exhibited higher reflection impulsivity compared to HC. Increased reflection impulsivity correlated positively with PD severity as assessed by the P&A and cognitive concerns measured by ASI-3. No significant correlations were found with physical or social concerns. PD patients had higher BIS scores than HC. Higher trait impulsivity was linked to recurrent emergency department visits among PD patients.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The findings of this study reveal the notion of increased impulsivity among individuals with PD and its relationship with cognitive concerns, as well as recurrent visits to the emergency department stemming from panic attacks.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"234-246"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141989445","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}