{"title":"Anxiety sensitivity and panic symptoms: the moderating influence of distress tolerance.","authors":"Rachel B Geyer, Joshua C Magee, Elise M Clerkin","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2146102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2146102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of consequences of anxiety-related sensations, and has been linked to the development of panic symptoms. Distress tolerance (DT) encompasses one's behavioral or self-perceived ability to handle aversive states. We examined whether higher DT buffers the relationship between AS and changes in panic symptoms across two timepoints, spaced ∼three weeks apart.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>At Time 1, 208 participants completed questionnaires and a physical DT task (breath-holding duration), a cognitive DT task (anagram persistence), and a self-report measure of DT (perceived DT). Panic symptoms were assessed at both timepoints. Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate two models in which AS and DT predicted changes in panic.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Contrary to hypotheses, for those with longer breath-holding duration (higher physical DT), higher fears of physical anxiety-related sensations (higher physical AS) were associated with worse panic outcomes over time.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings suggest that those with lower physical DT may have been less willing to engage with difficult tasks in the short-term. Although disengagement in the short-term may provide temporary relief, it is possible that averse psychopathological consequences stemming from rigid or habitual avoidance of distressing states may develop over longer periods of time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 5","pages":"618-635"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9788809","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}
Cristina Cuesta-Zamora, Jorge Javier Ricarte, Laura Ros, José Miguel Latorre, Carolyn Plateau
{"title":"The role of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety on compulsive exercise in adolescents.","authors":"Cristina Cuesta-Zamora, Jorge Javier Ricarte, Laura Ros, José Miguel Latorre, Carolyn Plateau","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2188204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2188204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>The role of anxiety as a risk factor for compulsive exercise elements among adolescents is unclear. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), which is a risk feature for anxiety and eating disorders, may be an important, unexplored risk factor for compulsive exercise dimensions. This study aimed to examine the role of IU dimensions and anxiety on compulsive exercise elements. Given previous evidence indicating gender differences in compulsive exercise and IU levels, gender was included as a moderator.</p><p><strong>Design/methods: </strong>A total of 201 adolescent girls and 207 adolescent boys completed the following questionnaires: Eating Disorder Inventory-3, Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 (IUS-12), a brief version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Compulsive Exercise Test (CET).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The hierarchical regression analyses showed that the interaction between IUS-Prospective and gender emerged as a significant predictor of CET-Avoidance and CET-Weight control exercise beyond symptoms of eating disorders and anxiety. Post hoc analysis revealed that the IUS-Prospective was a significant predictor of CET-Avoidance and CET-Weight Control among boys, but not among girls.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that prospective IU may contribute towards obsessive-compulsive attitudes towards exercise among adolescent population, specifically among boys.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 5","pages":"649-660"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9844813","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":"A stress mindset manipulation can affect speakers' articulation rate.","authors":"Jessica Baynard-Montague, Lori E James","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2179621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2179621","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Mindsets about stress can be altered so that people interpret stress as either a positive or negative force. We exposed participants to a stress mindset intervention to test its effects on a challenging speech production task.</p><p><strong>Design and method: </strong>Participants (N = 60) were randomly assigned to a stress mindset condition. In the stress-is-enhancing (SIE) condition, they viewed a brief video that characterized stress as a positive force that benefits performance. In the stress-is-debilitating (SID) condition, the video characterized stress as a negative force that should be avoided. Each participant completed a self-report measure of stress mindset, performed a psychological stressor task, and then repeatedly produced tongue twisters aloud. Speech errors and articulation time were scored for the production task.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The manipulation check confirmed that stress mindsets were altered after viewing the videos. Participants in the SIE condition articulated the phrases more quickly than those in the SID condition without an accompanying increase in errors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A stress mindset manipulation affected speech production. This finding indicates that one way to mitigate the negative effects of stress on speech production is to instantiate beliefs that stress is a positive force that can enhance performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 5","pages":"543-554"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9784948","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}
Maarten C Eisma, Antje Janshen, Lukas F T Huber, Maya J Schroevers
{"title":"Cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression and mindfulness in adaptation to bereavement: a longitudinal study.","authors":"Maarten C Eisma, Antje Janshen, Lukas F T Huber, Maya J Schroevers","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2165647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2165647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies increase prolonged grief and depressive symptoms following bereavement. However, less is known about the role of adaptive emotion regulation strategies in adaptation to loss. Therefore, we examined the concurrent and longitudinal associations of three putative adaptive emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression, and mindfulness) with prolonged grief and depression symptoms.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A two-wave longitudinal survey.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A sample of 397 bereaved Dutch adults (89% female, mean age 54 years) completed validated questionnaires to assess trait cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression, mindfulness and prolonged grief and depression symptoms at baseline (T1) and 344 participants completed symptom measures again six months later (T2).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Zero-order correlations demonstrated that mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal and emotional expression relate negatively to T1 and T2 prolonged grief and depression symptoms. In multiple regression analyses, controlling for relevant background variables, all emotion regulation strategies related negatively to T1 prolonged grief and depression symptoms. In multiple regression analyses, controlling for T1 symptoms and background variables, mindfulness predicted lower T2 depression symptoms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Adaptive emotion regulation strategies relate negatively to post-loss psychopathology symptoms, yet only mindfulness longitudinally predicts lower depression symptoms. Dispositional mindfulness may be a protective factor in psychological adaptation to bereavement.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 5","pages":"577-589"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9777163","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}
Emma C Wolfe, Andrew G Thompson, Tad T Brunyé, F Canroline Davis, Daniel Grover, Zachary Haga, Thomas Doyle, Anjali Goyal, Hannah Shaich, Heather L Urry
{"title":"Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduces anxiety and improves motor performance efficiency under stress.","authors":"Emma C Wolfe, Andrew G Thompson, Tad T Brunyé, F Canroline Davis, Daniel Grover, Zachary Haga, Thomas Doyle, Anjali Goyal, Hannah Shaich, Heather L Urry","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2162890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2162890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>We examined the effects of ultra-brief training in mindfulness and cognitive reappraisal on affective response and performance under stress. We hypothesized that one or both types of training would decrease affective responding and improve performance, and that these effects might be moderated by acute stress induction.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We manipulated training (mindfulness, cognitive reappraisal, control) between subjects and level of stress (low, high) within subjects in a 3 × 2 mixed factorial design. Method: Participants (<i>N</i> = 112, ages 18-35) completed two sessions on different days. In each session, they received mindfulness or cognitive reappraisal training or listened to a control script prior to a low- or high-stress simulated hostage situation. We measured motor performance efficiency (proportion of shots that hit hostile and hostage targets), affective responding (self-reported anxiety, salivary cortisol and alpha amylase, and autonomic physiology), and physical activity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to control instructions, ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduced subjective anxiety and increased performance efficiency. There were few effects of training on other measures.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness prior to a stressful task may be both helpful and harmful; effects are preliminary and subject to boundary conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 5","pages":"555-576"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9789347","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}
Pascale Brillon, Michelle Dewar, Alison Paradis, Frederick Philippe
{"title":"Associations between self-care practices and psychological adjustment of mental health professionals: a two-wave cross-lagged analysis.","authors":"Pascale Brillon, Michelle Dewar, Alison Paradis, Frederick Philippe","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2023.2178646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2178646","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cultivation of self-care is believed to foster more well-being and to mitigate the psychological difficulties that mental health professionals experience. However, how the well-being and psychological distress of these professionals impact their personal self-care practice is rarely discussed. In fact, studies have yet to investigate whether the use of self-care improves mental health, or whether being in a better place psychologically makes professionals more prone to using self-care (or both). The present study aims to clarify the longitudinal associations between self-care practices and five indicators of psychological adjustment (well-being, posttraumatic growth, anxiety, depression, and compassion fatigue). A sample of 358 mental health professionals were assessed twice (within a 10-month interval). A cross-lagged model tested all associations between self-care and psychological adjustment indicators. Results showed that self-care at T1 predicted increases in well-being and in post-traumatic growth, and a reduction in anxiety and depression at T2. However, only anxiety at T1 significantly predicted greater self-care at T2. No significant cross-lagged associations were found between self-care and compassion fatigue. Overall, findings suggest that implementing self-care is a good way for mental health workers to \"take care of themselves.\" However, more research is needed to understand what leads these workers to use self-care.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 5","pages":"603-617"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9790303","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":"A cognitive-behavioral approach to teacher burnout: A randomized controlled trial of a group therapy program.","authors":"Farshad Ghasemi, Keith C Herman, Wendy M Reinke","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2103118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2103118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>As a well-known phenomenon with significant social, biological, and psychological impacts, burnout syndrome has been viewed and treated from different therapeutic perspectives. However, few studies have evaluated interventions to prevent and alleviate teacher burnout.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This study comprised a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a group-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program for teacher burnout, with assessments at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and 6-month follow-up.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey (MBI-ES) was administered to 242 English language teachers with diverse professional profiles in Iran. Of these, 62 teachers with burnout symptoms were randomly assigned to either a group-based eight-week CBT treatment program or a waiting list control condition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of a series of mixed factorial ANOVAs demonstrated significantly greater improvements for the treatment compared to the control condition on the total score and three subscales of the MBI-ES (teachers' emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment) at post-treatment, with treatment effects maintained at 6-month follow-up.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This CBT intervention has promise for supporting teachers in stressful occupational conditions and reducing their burnout.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"533-541"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9516849","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}
Teah-Marie Bynion, Danielle Higuera, L Riley Gournay, Ana Bridges, Matthew Feldner, Ellen Leen-Feldner
{"title":"A laboratory-based examination of a standardized sexual assault script.","authors":"Teah-Marie Bynion, Danielle Higuera, L Riley Gournay, Ana Bridges, Matthew Feldner, Ellen Leen-Feldner","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2126974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2126974","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>Idiographic script-driven imagery is core to both research and treatment related to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including among individuals with a history of sexual assault. However, there may be benefit in having alternatives to such idiographic techniques. The current study therefore examined multimodal responding to a standardized audio-recorded narrative of a sexual assault.</p><p><strong>Design and method: </strong>In this experiment, 105 women (<i>Mage </i>= 19.09, <i>SD </i>= 2.24) were recruited from the community and randomly assigned to listen to a depiction of sexual assault (trauma condition) or a similar experience without sexual assault (control condition).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As hypothesized, relative to the control group, participants in the trauma condition reported greater (a) increases in anxiety, anger, and disgust from pre- to post- manipulation, and (b) distress across the duration of the recording. In contrast to hypotheses, heart-rate did not differ across groups.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results suggest listening to a standardized sexual assault narrative, compared to a non-traumatic narrative, effectively increases negative affect. This indicates standardized sexual assault narratives have potential as a traumatic event cue presentation method both for trauma-focused treatment and studying reactions to sexual assault cues.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"475-487"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9905527","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":"Socioeconomic status and social anxiety: attentional control as a key missing variable?","authors":"Nele Claes, A Smeding, A Carré","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2118723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2022.2118723","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>The aim was to examine the role of attentional control as a psychological factor involved in socioeconomic status-related mental health differences, and specifically in social anxiety. Based on the literature on socioeconomic status differences in cognitive abilities and attentional control theory, we hypothesized that attentional control would account for the relation between socioeconomic status and social anxiety. We tested this hypothesis in an integrative model also including trait anxiety and subjective socioeconomic status.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Cross-sectional.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Online, 439 French adults were recruited via social media. They completed self-reported measures of attentional control, objective socioeconomic status, subjective socioeconomic status, social anxiety, and trait anxiety.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Using Structural Equation Modelling, findings showed a positive association between objective (but not subjective) socioeconomic status and attentional control, which in turn was related to social anxiety. Exploratory analyses showed that only income, as objective socioeconomic status indicator, was associated with attentional control.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The current study is the first to support that low socioeconomic status individuals report less attentional control and more social anxiety symptoms. This suggests that attentional control is a psychological factor involved in social anxiety inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"519-532"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9513835","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 : 2023-07-01Epub Date: 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1080/10615806.2022.2127694
Jennifer A Somers, Kristen Chu, Chloe Schwartz, Emily Towner, Bridget Callaghan
{"title":"Sometimes \"we\" can help: parents' pronoun use buffers fear and anxiety transmission.","authors":"Jennifer A Somers, Kristen Chu, Chloe Schwartz, Emily Towner, Bridget Callaghan","doi":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2127694","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10615806.2022.2127694","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and objectives: </strong>Parents' natural language when describing health-related threats reflects parents' cognitions that may shape their transmission of anxiety and fear. Parents' greater communal focus (i.e., higher <i>we</i>-talk) and less self-focus (i.e., lower <i>I</i>-talk) may buffer against intergenerational fear/anxiety transmission. The current study investigated whether the relation between parents' and children's anxiety and pandemic-related fear differed by parent <i>we</i>- and <i>I</i>-talk.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>Parents of 114 children (2-19 years; M = 9.75, SD = 3.73) completed online measures assessing children's and parents' anxiety and COVID-19-related fears, and engaged in a written reflection on their early pandemic experiences. The proportion of parents' <i>we</i>-talk and <i>I</i>-talk during the reflection was obtained using Linguistic Inquiry Word Count software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Results of multilevel structural equation models were partially consistent with expectations: The protective effect of <i>we</i>-talk was only observed for parents with lower fear/anxiety. For parents with higher fear/anxiety, higher <i>I</i>-talk was associated with lower child fear/anxiety. At higher levels of parent <i>we</i>-talk and at lower levels of <i>I</i>-talk, there was an unexpectedly positive association between parents' and children's fear/anxiety.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The concordance between parents' and their children's fear/anxiety differs depending on parents' natural language when reflecting on the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":51415,"journal":{"name":"Anxiety Stress and Coping","volume":"36 4","pages":"488-501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10038937/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9512541","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}