Trial reportStress (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2017
Better executive function under stress mitigates the effects of recent life stress exposure on health in young adults.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
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- No differences in executive functions between female and male young talented football players.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Impact of lifetime stressor exposure on neuroenergetics in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Schizophrenia research · 2024Article
- Cognitive flexibility is associated with sickness resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Acculturation and daily cigarette use among Mexican-origin youth: The moderating role of executive functions.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- The Insidious Influence of Stress: An Integrated Model of Stress, Executive Control, and Psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
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- Executive Functions in Overweight and Obese Treatment-Seeking Patients: Cross-Sectional Data and Longitudinal Perspectives.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Environments and situations as correlates of eating and drinking among women living with obesity and urban poverty.Obesity science & practice · 2022Article
- Cumulative lifetime stressor exposure assessed by the STRAIN predicts economic ambiguity aversion.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
Executive function is a neuropsychological construct that enables controlled cognitive processing, which has been hypothesized to enhance individuals' resilience to stress. However, little empirical work has directly examined how executive function under different conditions mitigates the negative effects of stress exposure on health. To address this issue, we recruited 110 healthy young adults and assessed their recent life stress exposure, executive function in either a stressful or non-stressful context, and current health complaints. Based on existing research, we hypothesized that individuals exhibiting better executive function following a laboratory-based stressor (but not a control task) would demonstrate weaker associations between recent stress exposure and health because they perceived recent life stressors as being less severe. Consistent with this hypothesis, better executive function during acute stress, but not in the absence of stress, was associated with an attenuated link between participants' recent life stress exposure and their current health complaints. Moreover, this attenuating effect was mediated by lesser perceptions of stressor severity. Based on these data, we conclude that better executive function under stress is associated with fewer health complaints and that these effects may occur by reducing individuals' perceptions of stressor severity. The data thus suggest the possibility of reducing stress-related health problems by enhancing executive function.
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