Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Individuals with social anxiety disorder have often been considered inflexible in their emotion regulation. The aim of this study was to investigate emotion regulation flexibility in socially anxious individuals in response to two contextual factors, namely different levels of emotion intensity and emotion type.A daily diary approach was employed, investigating emotion regulation (i.e., experiential avoidance, expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal) in college students scoring high (N = 62; HSA) and low (N = 52; LSA) on social anxiety.Results revealed that HSAs were found to use more experiential avoidance than LSAs, especially at higher levels of negative intensity. The use of this emotion regulation strategy appeared to be driven by guilt, nervousness, and sadness. There were no between-group differences concerning the other strategies in response to varying levels of emotional intensity.Together, the results provide evidence for inflexible emotion regulation in HSAs, reflected in an unwillingness to experience negative emotions.

Mia S. O’Toole

Robert Zachariae

Douglas S. Mennin

Anxiety Stress & Coping

Anxiety, Stress, & Coping

Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: considering emotion intensity and type as contextual factors

社交焦虑与情绪调节灵活性：将情绪强度和类型视为情境因素

Abstract For many decades, the stress process was described primarily in terms of negative emotions. However, robust evidence that positive emotions co-occurred with negative emotions during intensely stressful situations suggested the need to consider the possible roles of positive emotions in the stress process. About 10 years ago, these possibilities were incorporated into a revision of stress and coping theory (Folkman, 1997). This article summarizes the research reported during the intervening 10 years that pertains to the revised model. Evidence has accumulated regarding the co-occurrence of positive and negative emotions during stressful periods; the restorative function of positive emotions with respect to physiological, psychological, and social coping resources; and the kinds of coping processes that generate positive emotions including benefit finding and reminding, adaptive goal processes, reordering priorities, and infusing ordinary events with positive meaning. Overall, the evidence supports the propositions set forth in the revised model. Contrary to earlier tendencies to dismiss positive emotions, the evidence indicates they have important functions in the stress process and are related to coping processes that are distinct from those that regulate distress. Including positive emotions in future studies will help address an imbalance between research and clinical practice due to decades of nearly exclusive concern with the negative emotions. Keywords: Stressmeaning-focused copingpositive emotioncoping theorybenefit findingadaptive goal processesreordering prioritiespositive meaningful events This article was invited by the editors following Professor Folkman's address at the 27th Stress and Anxiety Research Conference held in July 2006 in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece This article was invited by the editors following Professor Folkman's address at the 27th Stress and Anxiety Research Conference held in July 2006 in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece Acknowledgements The writing of this article was supported in part by NIH PO1 AT2024. I thank Judy Moskowitz for her comments on a previous version of this article. Notes This article was invited by the editors following Professor Folkman's address at the 27th Stress and Anxiety Research Conference held in July 2006 in Rethymnon, Crete, Greece

Susan Folkman

The case for positive emotions in the stress process

压力过程中积极情绪的作用

Background and Objectives This multimodal two-phase study investigated the impact of trait social anxiety on exploration, social attention, and autonomic responses in a naturalistic setting. We expected higher avoidance of potentially crowded spaces, reduced visual attention on other people, and heightened physiological arousal in social situations for participants with higher social anxiety levels.

Sabrina Gado

Janna Teigeler

Kaja Kümpel

Madita Schindler

Matthias Gamer

The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations

自然情境下社交焦虑对社交注意的影响

Background Cognitive flexibility is a key factor underlying emotion regulation (ER) and mental health. However, the impact of cognitive flexibility on flexible deployment of ER strategies in changing contexts remains unknown. This study investigated the effects of cognitive flexibility on two noteworthy ER constructs (strategy use and flexibility) and examined downstream impacts on negative affect.

Xiaoqin Wang

Shiyu Shao

Hui Cheng

Scott D. Blain

Yafei Tan

Lei Jia

Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life

认知灵活性对日常生活中情绪调节和消极情绪动态的影响

Heightened levels of support provision are systematically observed in adults immediately following natural disasters, yet knowledge about adolescents' social support provision is less extensive. This longitudinal study of 262 adolescents assessed their help-providing behaviors during and after a flood. It was hypothesized that social support provided by adolescents would relate to subsequent perceptions of their relationships with others and perceptions of the self. Descriptive analyses demonstrated that the majority of respondents reported that they provided tangible, emotional, and informational support to others in need. A series of hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that higher levels of support provided following the flood were subsequently associated with higher levels of perceived social support, a stronger sense of community at school, and greater propensity to engage in proactive coping. These associations were statistically significant, controlling for the impact of exposure to disaster stressors, age, gender, and received social support. Theoretical considerations and practical implications related to processes of social support provisions in times of stress are discussed.

Anna Bokszczanin

Social support provided by adolescents following a disaster and perceived social support, sense of community at school, and proactive coping

青少年在灾难后提供的社会支持、感知到的社会支持、学校社区感和主动应对

Context sensitivity refers to the ability to identify cues regarding the nature of stressor situations. This skill is a necessary precursor to successful emotion regulation and may involve detecting the presence or absence of stressor cues. Previous research has suggested that context sensitivity relies in part on working memory (WM), one component of cognitive control or executive functioning. We explored this potential relationship in an empirical study (N = 112) that assessed WM via WAIS-IV Digit Span as well as the ability to detect the presence or absence of stressor cues via the Context Sensitivity Index. Results demonstrated that detection of both cue presence and absence were significantly associated with the ability to apply semantic knowledge to information held in WM. Our findings expand upon a potential cognitive mechanism for context sensitivity.

Roland P. Hart

George A. Bonanno

Exploring Working Memory in Context Sensitivity

探索上下文敏感性中的工作记忆

Anxiety disorders are prevalent among youth and adults. Increasing studies examined the dynamic associations between momentary fluctuations of anxiety and well-being, primarily focusing on the severity of general anxiety. Scant research has explored the co-fluctuations between different anxiety symptoms and mental health outcomes.

Kehan Li

Eric M. Cooke

Yao Zheng

Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being

每日焦虑症状与年轻人每日幸福感之间的动态联系

Some researchers have posited that self-reports of PTG are often illusory, designed to help trauma survivors maintain positive views of the self. We examined whether participants might select an alternative, attractive option to reporting PTG that could similarly help maintain positive views of the self - reporting that the respondent experienced positive growth

Adriel Boals

Noel McKillip

Perceived posttraumatic growth: positive change occurring because of or despite the trauma?

感知到的创伤后成长：是创伤带来的积极变化，还是尽管创伤而发生的积极变化？

短名	Anxiety Stress Coping
Journal Impact	2.46
国际分区	PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY(Q2)
期刊索引	SCI Q2中科院 3 区

ISSN	1061-5806, 1477-2205
h-index	86
国内分区	心理学(3区)心理学精神病学(3区)心理学心理学综合(3区)

涉及主题	心理学医学临床心理学精神科生物社会心理学心理治疗师发展心理学焦虑神经科学哲学计算机科学应对（心理学）政治学法学认知数学社会学统计经济
出版信息	出版商: Brunner - Routledge (US)，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 1992，原创研究文献占比: 97.83%，自引率:0.00%， Gold OA占比: 14.62%

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Social anxiety and emotion regulation flexibility: considering emotion intensity and type as contextual factors

The case for positive emotions in the stress process

The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations

Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life

Social support provided by adolescents following a disaster and perceived social support, sense of community at school, and proactive coping

Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life

The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations

Exploring Working Memory in Context Sensitivity

Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being

Perceived posttraumatic growth: positive change occurring because of or despite the trauma?