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}
Anxiety Stress and CopingPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2267466
Lisa R Starr, Angela C Santee, Katharine K Chang, Gwyneth A L DeLap
{"title":"Everyday emotion, naturalistic life stress, and the prospective prediction of adolescent depression.","authors":"Lisa R Starr, Angela C Santee, Katharine K Chang, Gwyneth A L DeLap","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2267466","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2267466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Increasing research underscores low positive emotion (PE) as a vital component of depression risk in adolescence. Theory also suggests that PE contributes to adaptive coping. However, it is unclear whether naturalistic experiences of emotions contribute to long-term depression risk, or whether daily PE levels equip adolescents to cope with later naturalistic stressors, reducing risk for depression. The current study examines whether PE (and negative emotion [NE]) assessed via ecological momentary assessment (EMA) (a) predict prospective increases in depression, and (b) moderate the association between later life stressors and depression.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Longitudinal study of community-recruited adolescents, with EMA at baseline.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Adolescents (<i>n </i>= 232) completed contextual threat life stress interviews, interview and self-report measures of depression at baseline and 1.5 year follow-up. At baseline, they completed a seven-day EMA of emotion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Preregistered analyses showed that daily NE, but not PE, predicted increased depression over time and moderated the association between interpersonal episodic stress and self-reported depression.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results did not support daily PE as a buffer against depressogenic effects of life stress, but point to daily NE as a marker of depression risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"487-500"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41240791","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: 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2278057
Pauline N Goodson, Richard B Lopez, Bryan T Denny
{"title":"Perceived stress moderates emotion regulation success in real-world contexts: an ecologically-valid multilevel investigation.","authors":"Pauline N Goodson, Richard B Lopez, Bryan T Denny","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2278057","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2278057","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emotion regulation plays a crucial role in well-being in everyday life. Effective emotion regulation depends upon adaptively matching a given strategy to a given situation. Recent research has begun to explore these interactions in the context of daily reports of perceived stress, affect, and emotion regulation strategy usage. To further understand these differences in strategy efficacy in an ecologically valid context, we examined responses to real world stressors in a young adult sample.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We surveyed a range of emotion regulation strategies, including two forms of cognitive reappraisal (i.e., reinterpretation, which involves cognitively reframing one's emotional responses, and psychological distancing, which involves adopting an objective, impartial perspective). Participants reported strategy usage, momentary perceived stress, and affect in response to multiple ecological momentary assessments over a period of 7 days.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analyses of links between strategy usage and affect revealed that rumination was significantly negatively associated with more positive affect ratings. Further, a significant interaction between momentary perceived stress and reinterpretation usage was observed on affect, such that reinterpretation was more adaptive during situations perceived as less stressful.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These results provide further insight into the importance of situational context in determining the effectiveness of particular emotion regulation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"501-514"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71488771","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: 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2288333
Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Lewina O Lee, Anne-Josée Guimond, Ruijia Chen, Peter James, Hayami K Koga, Harold H Lee, Sakurako S Okuzono, Francine Grodstein, Janet Rich-Edwards, Laura D Kubzansky
{"title":"A long and resilient life: the role of coping strategies and variability in their use in lifespan among women.","authors":"Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald, Lewina O Lee, Anne-Josée Guimond, Ruijia Chen, Peter James, Hayami K Koga, Harold H Lee, Sakurako S Okuzono, Francine Grodstein, Janet Rich-Edwards, Laura D Kubzansky","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2288333","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2288333","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Associations of stress-related coping strategies with lifespan among the general population are understudied. Coping strategies are characterized as being either adaptive or maladaptive, but it is unknown the degree to which variability in tailoring their implementation to different contexts may influence lifespan.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Women (N = 54,353; M<sub>age </sub>= 47) completed a validated coping inventory and reported covariate information in 2001. Eight individual coping strategies (e.g., Acceptance, Denial) were considered separately. Using a standard deviation-based algorithm, participants were also classified as having lower, moderate, or greater variability in their use of these strategies. Deaths were ascertained until 2019. Accelerated failure time models estimated percent changes and 95% confidence intervals (CI) in predicted lifespan associated with coping predictors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In multivariable models, most adaptive and maladaptive strategies were associated with longer and shorter lifespans, respectively (e.g., per 1-SD increase: Active Coping = 4.09%, 95%CI = 1.83%, 6.41%; Behavioral Disengagement = -6.56%, 95%CI = -8.37%, -4.72%). Moderate and greater (versus lower) variability levels were similarly and significantly related to 8-10% longer lifespans. Associations were similar across age, racial/ethnic, residential income, and marital status subgroups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings confirm the adaptive and maladaptive nature of specific coping strategies, and further suggest benefits from both moderate and greater variability in their use for lifespan among women.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"473-486"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11133228/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138464216","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 : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-11-12DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2279663
Sarah E Williams, Annie T Ginty
{"title":"Improving stress mindset through education and imagery.","authors":"Sarah E Williams, Annie T Ginty","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2279663","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2279663","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research suggests interventions such as education and imagery can elicit a greater stress-is-enhancing mindset. The present study examined the individual and combined effect of stress-is-enhancing education and/or imagery delivered virtually in altering stress mindset. Three 3-minute online video interventions: (1) education, (2) imagery, (3) education with imagery were compared to each other and a control comparison.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>Participants (<i>N</i> = 164; 103 = female; <i>M<sub>age</sub></i> = 20.03, <i>SD = </i>1.39 years) completed the Stress Mindset Measure (SMM) before being randomly assigned to a group to watch a three-minute video and completing the SMM again.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The 2-time × 4-group ANOVA showed a significant time effect, <i>F</i>(1, 158) = 50.45, <i>p</i> < .001, <i>η</i><sub>p</sub><sup>2</sup> = .242, no group effect, <i>F</i>(3, 158) = 0.89, <i>p</i> = .449, <i>η</i><sub>p</sub><sup>2</sup> = .017, and a significant time × group interaction, <i>F</i>(3, 158) = 4.48, <i>p</i> = .005, <i>η</i><sub>p</sub><sup>2 </sup>= .078. All three experimental groups reported greater stress-is-enhancing mindset post-intervention compared to pre-intervention. At post-intervention the education with imagery group had a significantly more stress-is-enhancing mindset compared to the control group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest that online stress mindset videos may be effective with a combined stress education and imagery intervention being most effective.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"419-427"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89720542","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":"Female students' personality and stress response to an academic examination.","authors":"Sara Garces-Arilla, Camino Fidalgo, Magdalena Mendez-Lopez, Jorge Osma, Teresa Peiro, Alicia Salvador, Vanesa Hidalgo","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2264208","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2264208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Women are vulnerable to stress-related disorders. Examinations are a source of stress, triggering emotional, cognitive, and hormonal responses. We examined women's psychological and hormonal stress responses and academic performance according to personality during a real-life examination.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Female students (<i>N</i> = 66) were divided into two groups based on hierarchical cluster analysis: one cluster characterized by high neuroticism and moderate extraversion (HN-ME; <i>n</i> = 42) and the other by low neuroticism and high extraversion (LN-HE; <i>n</i> = 24). Academic performance, perceived stress, and emotional dysregulation were analyzed. State anxiety, affect, and cortisol release were measured before and on the examination day.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The HN-ME cluster was high in perceived stress, emotional dysregulation, and negative affect. This cluster also had higher state anxiety levels two days before and shortly after the examination compared to the LN-HE cluster. Students' cortisol levels were higher on the examination day, and there was a marginal significance of the Cluster factor in the cortisol release regardless of the day of measurement.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Women with high neuroticism and moderate extraversion may be more vulnerable to psychological stress in academic settings but similar to other women in their cortisol response.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"460-472"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41151926","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: 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2274822
Robert J Klein, Brody Terry, Michael D Robinson
{"title":"A brief nonattachment intervention based on the three marks of existence: development, rationale, and initial evidence.","authors":"Robert J Klein, Brody Terry, Michael D Robinson","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2274822","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2274822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The practices described in Buddhist philosophy are essentially a suite of non-theistic cognitive and behavioral interventions designed to induce nonattachment (N-A), which can be defined in terms of the absence of a need for one's personal reality to be other than it is. Although meditative practices have received attention in multiple literatures, the cognitive analogs to these behaviorally-oriented practices have not.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Two experiments involving undergraduate participants (total <i>N</i> = 239; <i>M</i> age = 19.04) investigated whether the provision of wisdom related to the Three Marks of Existence (i.e., some degree of suffering is inevitable, there is impermanence, and many events are not in our control) could result in (1) higher nonattachment attitudes, (2) lower threat appraisals, (3) lower stressor reactivity, and (4) shorter emotion reaction durations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>With moderate to large effect sizes, the Three Marks trainings (relative to placebo or control conditions) resulted in (1) higher nonattachment attitudes, (2) lower threat appraisals, (3) no differences in negative emotional intensity, but 4) shorter emotion durations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results provide preliminary evidence that enduring cognitive trainings such as the Three Marks can be an effective tool to increase acceptance-related attitudes while attenuating negative reactivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"529-544"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71428961","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 : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2235294
Nisali Muthumuni, Jordana L Sommer, Renée El-Gabalawy, Kristin A Reynolds, Natalie P Mota
{"title":"Evaluating the mental health status, help-seeking behaviors, and coping strategies of Canadian essential workers versus non-essential workers during COVID-19: a longitudinal study.","authors":"Nisali Muthumuni, Jordana L Sommer, Renée El-Gabalawy, Kristin A Reynolds, Natalie P Mota","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2235294","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2235294","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study examined mental health symptoms, help-seeking, and coping differences between Canadian essential workers (EWs) versus non-EWs, as well as common COVID-related concerns and longitudinal predictors of mental health symptoms among EWs only.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>An online, longitudinal survey (<i>N </i>= 1260; response rate (RR) = 78.5%) assessing mental health and psychosocial domains amongst Canadian adults was administered during the first wave of COVID-19 with a six-month follow-up (<i>N </i>= 821; RR = 53.7%).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross tabulations and chi-square analyses examined sociodemographic, mental health, and coping differences between EWs and non-EWs. Frequencies evaluated common COVID-related concerns. Linear regression analyses examined associations between baseline measures with mental health symptoms six months later amongst EWs.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>EWs reported fewer mental health symptoms and avoidance coping than non-EWs, and were most concerned with transmitting COVID-19. Both groups reported similar patterns of help-seeking. Longitudinal correlates of anxiety and perceived stress symptoms among EWs included age, marital status, household income, accessing a psychologist, avoidant coping, and higher COVID-19-related distress.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>COVID-19 has had a substantial impact on the mental health of Canadian EWs. This research identifies which EWs are at greater risk of developing mental disorders, and may further guide the development of pandemic-related interventions for these workers.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"334-347"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9867017","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 : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2024.2324266
Kimberly A Arditte Hall, Christopher M McGrory, Alana M Snelson, Suzanne L Pineles
{"title":"The associations between repetitive negative thinking, insomnia symptoms, and sleep quality in adults with a history of trauma.","authors":"Kimberly A Arditte Hall, Christopher M McGrory, Alana M Snelson, Suzanne L Pineles","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2324266","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2024.2324266","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and sleep disturbance are highly comorbid and repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is associated with both sleep disturbance and PTSD. However, few studies have examined the association between RNT and sleep disturbance in individuals exposed to trauma, with and without PTSD.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Associations between trait-level and trauma-related RNT, insomnia, and sleep quality were investigated in a trauma-exposed MTurk (<i>N</i> = 342) sample. Additionally, PTSD symptom severity was tested as a moderator of the associations between RNT and insomnia and sleep quality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Trait-level RNT predicted poorer sleep quality and greater insomnia, regardless of PTSD severity. Trauma-related RNT was also associated with greater insomnia, though the effect was moderated by PTSD severity such that it was significant for participants with low and moderate, but not severe, PTSD. Both trait- and trauma-related RNT were associated with several specific aspects of sleep quality, including: sleep disturbances, daytime dysfunction, use of sleep medications, sleep onset latency, and subjective sleep quality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study demonstrates significant associations linking RNT with insomnia and sleep disturbance in trauma-exposed individuals. Clinically, results suggest that it may be helpful to target both general and trauma-related RNT in sleep interventions for trauma-exposed individuals with insomnia.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"394-405"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139998202","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 : 2024-05-01Epub Date: 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2023.2267454
Jay Andrew Lorenzini, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Dana Rose Garfin
{"title":"Associations between mindfulness and mental health after collective trauma: results from a longitudinal, representative, probability-based survey.","authors":"Jay Andrew Lorenzini, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Dana Rose Garfin","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2267454","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2267454","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background/objectives: </strong>Trait mindfulness (TM) may protect against post-trauma mental health ailments and related impairment. Few studies have evaluated this association in the context of collective traumas using representative samples or longitudinal designs.</p><p><strong>Design/method: </strong>We explored relationships between TM and collective trauma-related outcomes in a prospective, representative, probability-based sample of 1846 U.S. Gulf Coast residents repeatedly exposed to catastrophic hurricanes, assessed twice during the COVID-19 outbreak (Wave 1: 5/14/20-5/27/20; Wave 2: 12/21/21-1/11/22). Generalized estimating equations examined longitudinal relationships between TM, COVID-19-related fear/worry, hurricane-related fear/worry, global distress, and functional impairment; ordinary least squares regression analyses examined the cross-sectional association between TM and COVID-19-related posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) at Wave 1. Event-related stressor exposure was explored as a moderator.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In covariate-adjusted models including pre-event mental health ailments and demographics, TM was negatively associated with COVID-19-related fear/worry, hurricane-related fear/worry, global distress, and functional impairment over time; in cross-sectional analyses, TM was negatively associated with COVID-19-related PTSS. TM moderated the relationship between COVID-19 secondary stressor exposure (e.g., lost job/wages) and both global distress and functional impairment over time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest TM may buffer adverse psychosocial outcomes following collective trauma, with some evidence TM may protect against negative effects of secondary stressor exposure.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":" ","pages":"361-378"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54232093","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}