Effects of an experimental social stressor on resources loss, negative affect, and coping strategies

Zeidner, Moshe; Ben–Zur, Hasida

doi:10.1080/10615806.2013.862523

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“…In addition, speech tasks often induce a social stress component (e.g., Zeidner and Ben-Zur 2013). Considering the instruction of the mental arithmetic tasks in this study, participants knew their answers were heard and evaluated, although they could not see the experimenter.…”

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Academic Goal Orientation and Cardiovascular Reactivity in a Performance Situation

Lackner

Gramer

Paechter

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Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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The present study investigated whether students' academic goal orientation (learning goals, performance goals, work avoidance) and their individual competence beliefs (their academic self-concept) can predict motivation-related cardiovascular activation patterns in a demanding performance situation. A sample of seventy-two undergraduate students rated their academic goal orientation as well as their competence beliefs and completed a mental arithmetic task. Heart rate (HR), blood pressure, pre-ejection period (PEP) as well as cardiac output (CO) and total peripheral resistance were monitored continuously during rest and task exposure. Students scoring higher on work avoidance showed smaller increases in HR and CO, and a smaller shortening of the PEP. A lower academic self-concept was associated with attenuated CO reactivity and a smaller shortening of the PEP. Learning and performance goals were unrelated to cardiovascular activity. The attenuated cardiac activity observed for work avoidance and competence beliefs was interpreted in terms of reduced task engagement resulting from lower success importance.

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Academic Goal Orientation and Cardiovascular Reactivity in a Performance Situation

Lackner

Gramer

Paechter

et al. 2015

Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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“…Moreover, the reduction in sports events resulted in a significant reduction in athletes’ media exposure, which could have been a major source of pressure [ 66 , 67 ]. The increase in stress during the fourth wave of the pandemic could have been caused by the depletion of personal resources and poorer adaptation to the permanent conditions of the pandemic [ 68 , 69 ], as well as chronic fatigue syndrome [ 70 ]. All limitations and restrictions accumulated over time may cause higher levels of stress and greater health concerns.…”

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Coping Strategies and Perceiving Stress among Athletes during Different Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Data from Poland, Romania, and Slovakia

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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has affected numerous aspects of human functioning. Social contacts, work, education, travel, and sports have drastically changed during the lockdown periods. The pandemic restrictions have severely limited professional athletes’ ability to train and participate in competitions. For many who rely on sports as their main source of income, this represents a source of intense stress. To assess the dynamics of perceived stress as well as coping strategies during different waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, we carried out a longitudinal study using the Perception of Stress Questionnaire and the Brief COPE on a sample of 2020 professional athletes in Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. The results revealed that in all three countries, the highest intrapsychic stress levels were reported during the fourth wave (all, p < 0.01) and the highest external stress levels were reported before the pandemic (p < 0.05). To analyze the data, analyses of variance were carried out using Tukey’s post hoc test and η2 for effect size. Further, emotional tension was the highest among Polish and Slovak athletes in the fourth wave, while the highest among Romanian athletes was in the pre-pandemic period. The coping strategies used by the athletes in the fourth wave were more dysfunctional than during the first wave (independent t test and Cohen’s d were used). The dynamics of the coping strategies—emotion focused and problem focused—were also discussed among Polish, Romanian, and Slovak athletes. Coaches and sports psychologists can modify the athletes’ perceived stress while simultaneously promoting effective coping strategies.

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“…Future studies may test the moderating effects of social and temporal comparisons on the association of wellbeing with other psychological resources such as optimism and self-efficacy. Furthermore, psychological resources can be manipulated by experimental procedures (e.g., Zeidner & Ben-Zur, 2014), and the moderating effects of social and temporal comparisons can be tested under such controlled conditions.…”

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Social and Temporal Comparisons as Moderators of Psychological Resources Associations With Wellbeing

Ben–Zur

2016

Journal of Individual Differences

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Abstract. The current study investigated the associations of psychological resources, social comparisons, and temporal comparisons with general wellbeing. The sample included 142 community participants (47.9% men; age range 23–83 years), who compared themselves with others, and with their younger selves, on eight dimensions (e.g., physical health, resilience). They also completed questionnaires assessing psychological resources of mastery and self-esteem, and three components of subjective wellbeing: life satisfaction and negative and positive affect. The main results showed that high levels of psychological resources contributed to wellbeing, with self-enhancing social and temporal comparisons moderating the effects of resources on certain wellbeing components. Specifically, under low levels of mastery or self-esteem self-enhancing social or temporal comparisons were related to either higher life satisfaction or positive affect. The results highlight the role of resources and comparisons in promoting people’s wellbeing, and suggest that self-enhancing comparisons function as cognitive coping mechanisms when psychological resources are low.

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Effects of an experimental social stressor on resources loss, negative affect, and coping strategies

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Academic Goal Orientation and Cardiovascular Reactivity in a Performance Situation

Academic Goal Orientation and Cardiovascular Reactivity in a Performance Situation

Coping Strategies and Perceiving Stress among Athletes during Different Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic—Data from Poland, Romania, and Slovakia

Social and Temporal Comparisons as Moderators of Psychological Resources Associations With Wellbeing

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