SynthesisScientific reports2024
Effectiveness of stress arousal reappraisal and stress-is-enhancing mindset interventions on task performance outcomes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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- When Stress Becomes Human: The Joint Effect of Anthropomorphism and Generalized Trust on Stress Mindset.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Physical activity and academic burnout among middle school students: uncovering cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- External assets and psychosocial adaptation in left-behind children: stress mindset as mediator and environmental sensitivity as moderator.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Too much to learn, too little to move? The impact of course load on university students' physical wellbeing.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Stress arousal reappraisal (SAR) and stress-is-enhancing (SIE) mindset interventions aim to promote a more adaptive stress response by educating individuals about the functionality of stress. As part of this framework, an adaptive stress response is coupled with improved performance on stressful tasks. The goal of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions on task performance. The literature search yielded 44 effect sizes, and a random-effects model with Knapp-Hartung adjustment was used to pool them. The results revealed an overall small significant improvement in task performance (d = 0.23, p < 0.001). The effect size was significantly larger for mixed interventions (i.e., SAR/SIE mindset instructions combined with additional content, k = 5, d = 0.45, p = 0.004) than SAR-only interventions (k = 33, d = 0.22, p < 0.001) and SIE mindset-only interventions (k = 6, d = 0.18, p = 0.22) and tended to be larger for public performance tasks than cognitive written tasks (k = 14, d = 0.34, p < 0.001 vs. k = 30, d = 0.20, p = 0.002). Although SAR and SIE mindset interventions are not "silver bullets", they offer a promising cost-effective low-threshold approach to improve performance across various domains.
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