The Influence of University Students’ Stress Mindsets on Health and Performance Outcomes
Keech, J. J., Hagger, M., O’Callaghan, F. V., & Hamilton, K. (2018). The Influence of University Students’ Stress Mindsets on Health and Performance Outcomes. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 52(12), 1046-1059. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kay008
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Background
Emerging evidence indicates that holding particular stress mindsets has favorable implications for peoples’ health and performance under stress.
Purpose
The aim of the current study was to examine the processes by which implicit and explicit stress mindsets relate to health- and performance-related outcomes. Specifically, we propose a stress beliefs model in which somatic responses to stress and coping behaviors mediate the effect of stress mindsets on outcomes.
Methods
Undergraduate university students (N = 218, n = 144 females) aged 17– 25 years completed measures of stress mindset, physical and psychological wellbeing, perceived stress, perceived somatic responses to stress, proactive behaviors under stress, and an implicit association test assessing an implicit stress mindset. At the end of the semester, students’ academic performance was collected from university records.
Results
Path analysis indicated significant indirect effects of stress mindset on psychological wellbeing and perceived stress through proactive coping behaviors and perceived somatic symptoms. Stress mindset directly predicted perceived stress and physical wellbeing, and physical wellbeing and academic performance were predicted by stress mindset through perceived somatic symptoms. Implicit stress mindset did not predict proactive behavior as anticipated.
Conclusions
Current findings indicate that behaviors with the goal of proactively meeting demands under stress and perceived somatic symptoms are important mediators of the effect of stress mindset on health- and performance-related outcomes. The findings from this study provide formative data that can inform the development of future interventions aiming to encourage more adaptive responses to stress.
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