Description of the General Procedure of a Stress Inoculation Program to Cope with the Test Anxiety

Pintado, Isabel Serrano; Llamazares, María del Camino Escolar

doi:10.4236/psych.2014.58106

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“…The stress inoculation technique is already utilized in many high-stress job training programs, such as training for first-responders and medical staff. It also has been shown to be effective in other conditions as well, such as preventing PTSD in military members, anxiety and depression in cancer patients, or even to reduce exam anxiety in stressed-out students (107,109). In the future, we will be able to more accurately monitor an individual for stress coping and resilience by combining information from self-reported measures, vital sign and demographic data, psychosocial, stress reactivity, genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and epigenetics to apply more of a comprehensive systems approach to diagnosis and treatment of stress induced disorders.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Molecular Basis of Resilience: A Narrative Review

Ryan

Ryznar

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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Resilience refers to the adaptability of a person – an ability to “bounce-back” from stressors. We question if resilience can be strengthened, potentially to decrease the risk of stress-related disorders. Unfortunately, the molecular origins of resilience are complicated and not yet well understood. In this review, we examine the various physiological biomarkers of resilience, including the associated genes, epigenetic changes, and protein biomarkers associated with resilient phenotypes. In addition to assessing biomarkers that may indicate higher levels of resilience, we also review at length the many biomarkers that confer lower levels of resilience and may lead to disorders of low resilience, such as anxiety and depression. This large and encompassing review may help to identify the possible therapeutic targets of resilience. Hopefully these studies will lead to a future where stress-related disorders can be prevented, rather than treated.

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Section: Future Directions and Resilience Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Molecular Basis of Resilience: A Narrative Review

Ryan

Ryznar

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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“…In a recent review, Markiewcz (2017) showed that neurofeedback is effective in many psychiatric disorders that affect psychological variables such as stress and anxiety. To avoid the side effects of drugs, from the perspective of anxiety-reducing technology (Pintado and Llamazares, 2014), neurofeedback therapy is a promising new method with stable and lasting therapeutic effects no side effects.…”

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confidence: 99%

Efficacy Evaluation of Neurofeedback-Based Anxiety Relief

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Anxiety disorder is a mental illness that involves extreme fear or worry, which can alter the balance of chemicals in the brain. This change and evaluation of anxiety state are accompanied by a comprehensive treatment procedure. It is well-known that the treatment of anxiety is chiefly based on psychotherapy and drug therapy, and there is no objective standard evaluation. In this paper, the proposed method focuses on examining neural changes to explore the effect of mindfulness regulation in accordance with neurofeedback in patients with anxiety. We designed a closed neurofeedback experiment that includes three stages to adjust the psychological state of the subjects. A total of 34 subjects, 17 with anxiety disorder and 17 healthy, participated in this experiment. Through the three stages of the experiment, electroencephalography (EEG) resting state signal and mindfulness-based EEG signal were recorded. Power spectral density was selected as the evaluation index through the regulation of neurofeedback mindfulness, and repeated analysis of variance (ANOVA) method was used for statistical analysis. The findings of this study reveal that the proposed method has a positive effect on both types of subjects. After mindfulness adjustment, the power map exhibited an upward trend. The increase in the average power of gamma wave indicates the relief of anxiety. The enhancement of the wave power represents an improvement in the subjects’ mindfulness ability. At the same time, the results of ANOVA showed that P < 0.05, i.e., the difference was significant. From the aspect of neurophysiological signals, we objectively evaluated the ability of our experiment to relieve anxiety. The neurofeedback mindfulness regulation can effect on the brain activity pattern of anxiety disorder patients.

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“…The Teacher Test Anxiety (TTA) inventory was developed based on existing instruments (e.g., Fujii, 1993;Serrano-Pintado & Escolar-Llamazares, 2014;Mowbray, Jacobs & Boyle, 2015). The 12-item TTA consist of three items -general test worrying, test irrelevant thinking, and negative emotions as shown in Table 1.…”

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An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Causes of Teacher Examination Anxiety and Dimensions of Coping with Pre-Exam Anxiety: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Shimave

Çerkez

Baysen

2020

Psychologica Belgica

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In recent years, examination anxiety among teachers assumes a critical sphere in the global academic environment. The causes of teacher examination anxiety in education have been reviewed by a few scholars. This shows that teacher examination anxiety and its impact on academic development are limited in research. Therefore, this study investigated the linear relationship between two self-report instruments – the causes of teacher examination anxiety and dimensions of coping with pre-exam anxiety. The study adopted a quantitative approach with three-hundred teachers from four secondary schools in Nigeria and twenty teachers from two secondary schools in North Cyprus participated in the survey. Also, a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was utilized for the analysis. The results of the study indicate that the two factors (teacher causes of exam anxiety and dimensions of coping with pre-exam anxiety) are interconnected. The results also indicate teachers’ preparation for examinations coupled with various dimensions of anxiety is a complex task that demands educational stakeholders to constantly improving on causes of examination anxiety and factors of pre-exam anxiety among teachers for better academic and ethical development.

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Description of the General Procedure of a Stress Inoculation Program to Cope with the Test Anxiety

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

The Molecular Basis of Resilience: A Narrative Review

The Molecular Basis of Resilience: A Narrative Review

Efficacy Evaluation of Neurofeedback-Based Anxiety Relief

An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Causes of Teacher Examination Anxiety and Dimensions of Coping with Pre-Exam Anxiety: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

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