Topic
Stress research, explained
18 open-access stress studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Family support associated with lower COVID stress and better mood in Filipinos
Perceived stress partly explains how family and partner support—but not friend support—link to better mood and less anxiety/depression during COVID-19.
- College academic stress tracks lower mental well-being
Higher perceived academic stress correlates with worse well-being in 843 US undergraduates; non-binary and second-year students report the highest burden, and 80% said COVID-19 increased stress.
- How did early COVID reshape Australian family life?
Among 2,130 parents, themes spanned emotional distress, lost healthy routines, intimacy push–pull, parenting overload, unequal burden—and some positivity.
- Measuring Cognitive Control and Flexibility During Stress
A new questionnaire measures how well people can control their thoughts and adapt their coping strategies during stressful situations, which helps predict their risk for depression.
- Can online self-compassion training cut stress in psychologists?
A short web-based course in mindful self-compassion lowered stress and burnout symptoms in working psychologists compared with a wait-list, and people who became less harsh on themselves improved most.
- How do you measure hardiness in AD caregivers?
Among 435 Iranian AD family caregivers, the new FCHS showed five factors explaining 58.72% variance with acceptable CFA fit and reliability.
- Is stress about being LGBTQ different from ordinary teen stress?
A new questionnaire measuring stress tied to being a sexual-minority teenager tracked depression, problem behaviour and drug use, overlapped only modestly with general teen stress, and explained extra variation in outcomes beyond it.
- Do everyday stress, anxiety and low mood feed each other?
In students' daily lives, feeling anxious or low predicted feeling more stressed a few hours later, which in turn predicted still more anxiety or low mood, and anxiety and low mood also fuelled each other.
- Does having a dog nearby soften the stress of a traumatic film?
Watching a distressing film with a friendly dog made women feel less anxious afterwards, as much as having a friendly person there, but did not change their bodily stress response.
- How social status and stress shape racial cognitive gaps
Lower socioeconomic status and higher stress explain some of the cognitive differences seen between Black and White young adults, but these pathways differ for Hispanic young adults.
- Does work stress hurt performance through mental health?
Among 196 Chinese SME employees surveyed in the COVID-19 period, work stress predicted worse mental health and performance; mental health fully mediated the stress–performance link, and servant leadership did not moderate stress.
- Does mindfulness training help police officers manage stress and health?
Tailored mindfulness training significantly reduced mental distress and improved sleep in police officers, although most physiological measures of stress remained unchanged.
- Does mindfulness training reduce students' physical stress markers?
An 8-week student mindfulness program successfully reduced physiological stress by lowering pulse wave variability, while standard heart rate metrics remained unchanged.
- How Sleep Loss and Combat Stress Affect Soldier Cognition
Overnight sleep deprivation impairs basic alertness and attention, whereas acute combat stress slows overall decision-making speed but preserves accuracy.
- Can Brain and Nerve Stimulation Ease Stress and Improve Sleep?
Both non-invasive brain stimulation and ear-based nerve stimulation can significantly reduce chronic stress and improve sleep quality over time.
- Do stress, personal history and communication each shape marriages?
Partners' personal vulnerabilities, chronic stress and observed communication each independently predicted how satisfied newlyweds were, but communication did not explain the effects of the other two.
- Do people who use music to relax recover faster from stress?
Young adults who often listen to music to relax did not recover from a stressful public-speaking task any faster than those who rarely do, on either self-reported or hormonal measures.
- Can a short stress course help older adults cope and lower cortisol?
A six-week group stress-management course gave older adults a short-term boost in problem-solving coping, a drop in anxiety and lower daily cortisol, but most of these gains faded by three months.