ArticleAnxiety, stress, and coping2025
Cross-sectional and longitudinal influences of stress mindset on adolescent depressive symptoms and cannabis use.
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- Peer stress and adolescent deviant behaviors: Unraveling the roles of loneliness and stress mindset.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Article
- Stress Mindsets Forecasting Students' Mental Health Trajectories: Evidence From an EMA Study.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Article
- From Adolescent Stress Mindset to Positive Behavior: The Moderation Role of Social Support and Sex Differences.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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objectiveA stress-is-enhancing mindset refers to viewing the nature of stress as enhancing rather than debilitating and has been linked to better mental health in response to stressors. We examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal link between stress mindset and two mental health outcomes, depressive symptoms and cannabis use, over the COVID-19 pandemic in a diverse sample of adolescents. DESIGN AND
methodsA community sample of adolescents completed measures assessing depressive symptoms, cannabis use, and intentions to use cannabis at three time points (T1: 2018-2020, N = 299, T2: 2020, N = 219, T3: 2021, N = 173). Participants completed the stress mindset measure at T2.
resultsCross-sectionally, a more stress-is-enhancing mindset was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and reduced intentions to use cannabis, which in turn were associated with less cannabis use. Longitudinally, a more stress-is-enhancing mindset was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and indirectly associated with less future cannabis use through behavioral intentions to use cannabis.
conclusionThis study establishes a stress-is-enhancing mindset as a protective factor against cannabis use and contributes to a growing literature that stress mindset is protective against depression, indicating that stress mindset may be an important protective factor even in the face of naturalistic, chronic stressors.
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