Murphy Elijah R, Cox Diana J, Fisseha Feven, Gunthert Kathleen C
Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Aug 26;13(9):709. doi: 10.3390/bs13090709.
Recently, research has shown that stress mindsets, or the degree to which people believe that stress is enhancing versus debilitating, impact the ways they process and react to stress. However, young adults encounter various forms of stress, which might elicit different stress mindsets. This study investigated (1) how much young adults think about specific types of stressors as they complete stress mindset measures and (2) how stress mindsets vary across stressor types.
Participants ( = 182) completed measures of general and category-specific stress mindsets (academic, interpersonal, identity-based, illness, societal, financial) and rated how much they thought of each category when completing the general mindset measure.
Academic stress was the most salient, and identity-based discrimination was the least salient as participants completed the stress mindset measure. Academic stress was perceived as the most stress-enhancing, and illness stressors were rated as the least stress-enhancing. Cisgender women reported stronger stress-is-debilitating mindsets for interpersonal and illness/injury-related stressors as compared with cisgender men.
Stress mindset ratings in research studies might be weighted toward certain types of stressors. Further, young adults' mindsets differ across different stressor categories. This nuance has implications for how we conceptualize stress mindset in interventions and research.
最近的研究表明，压力心态，即人们认为压力是增强性的还是削弱性的程度，会影响他们处理压力和对压力做出反应的方式。然而，年轻人会遇到各种形式的压力，这可能会引发不同的压力心态。本研究调查了：（1）年轻人在完成压力心态测量时对特定类型压力源的思考程度；（2）压力心态如何因压力源类型而异。
参与者（ = 182）完成了一般和特定类别的压力心态测量（学业、人际、基于身份、疾病、社会、经济），并在完成一般心态测量时对他们对每个类别的思考程度进行了评分。
在参与者完成压力心态测量时，学业压力最为突出，基于身份的歧视最不突出。学业压力被认为是最能增强压力的，而疾病压力源被评为最不能增强压力的。与顺性别男性相比，顺性别女性在人际和疾病/伤害相关压力源方面报告了更强的压力削弱心态。
研究中的压力心态评分可能会偏向某些类型的压力源。此外，年轻人在不同压力源类别中的心态存在差异。这种细微差别对我们在干预和研究中如何概念化压力心态具有启示意义。
