Expressive flexibility and anxiety

Maccallum, Fiona; Tran, Sophia; Bonanno, George A.

doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.028

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“…Existing research has shown a clear relationship between expressive flexibility and mental health outcomes, especially in terms of psychopathology. For example, there is solid evidence that expressive flexibility deficits can predict mental illness, such as depression [ 9 , 10 , 26 ], emotion distress [ 8 ], and anxiety [ 27 , 28 ]. A recent survey among combat-exposed veterans suggested that lower levels of expressive flexibility were associated with more severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression [ 9 ].…”

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Expressive Flexibility and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Gender Differences

Shangguan

Zhang

Wang

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Recent research has emphasized the crucial role of expressive flexibility in mental health. This study extended prior studies by further exploring the mediating mechanism and possible gender differences underlying the association between expressive flexibility and mental health indexed by depression and life satisfaction based on the dual-factor model of mental health. Specifically, we explored whether social support mediated the association between expressive flexibility and depression as well as life satisfaction, and whether there were gender differences in these relationships. A total of 711 voluntary college students (mean age = 20.98 years, SD = 2.28; 55.70% women) completed a set of scales assessing expressive flexibility, perceived social support, depression, and life satisfaction. Results showed that expressive flexibility had a positive direct effect on life satisfaction and social support mediated this association. Social support also mediated the relationship between expressive flexibility and depression. The mediation effect of social support was robust and consistent in men and women whereas expressive flexibility had a stronger direct effect on depression in women compared to men. The present study contributes to clarifying the relationship between expressive flexibility and mental health from a more comprehensive perspective. Last, the strengths and limitations of this study were discussed.

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Expressive Flexibility and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Gender Differences

Shangguan

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2022

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“…Researchers investigated potential factors that affect resiliency toward trauma and found that some personality factors, such as optimism, hardiness, and some emotion regulation strategies, were associated with ways of coping with trauma (Bonanno, 2004.;Glatzer-Levy et al, 2012;Maccallum, Tran, & Bonanno, 2021). According to the Coping with Trauma Framework (Bonanno et al, 2011), people who use more forward-focus coping and coping flexibility were more resistant against mental health symptoms like anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (Rodin et al, 2017;Pinciotti et al, 2017).…”

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World Assumptions and Coping Related to Trauma as Predictors of General Mental Health and Acute Stress Symptoms Among Iranian Muslims During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Khanipour

Pourali

Atar

et al. 2023

Journal of Muslim Mental Health

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The COVID-19 outbreak is a new potentially traumatic event that may have some unknown effects on mental health. The aim of this study was to examine how two theoretical frameworks related to coping with trauma, including shattered assumptions and coping with trauma, could explain mental health and acute stress symptoms among the general population during the COVID-19 outbreak. The participants included 212 Iranian Muslims who filled out the online survey. Women and people with non-fixed jobs reported more mental health deterioration and acute stress symptoms. There were no significant differences between people with or without COVID-19 in terms of mental health symptoms, experiencing acute stress symptoms, and world assumptions. Results showed that world assumption and forward-focused coping could predict mental health symptoms and acute stress symptoms beyond COVID-19 specific stress. Assumptions related to the meaningfulness of the world and trauma-focused coping were associated with a higher score in general mental health symptoms and acute stress, but assumptions related to the benevolence of the world, self-worth, and forward-focused coping were associated with lower mental health and acute stress symptoms. This could suggest that world assumptions could buffer or endanger mental health during crises such as the pandemic. In addition, it seems that forward-focus coping is effective for managing new life challenges during the COVID-19 outbreak. In contrast, the more people address the negative and catastrophic effects of COVID-19 (such as trauma-focused coping), the more they are prone to developing mental health symptoms. This study showed that among Iranian Muslims, some world assumptions (for example, the meaningfulness of world) and some kinds of coping (for example, trauma-focused coping) were not as protective factor as in non-Muslim countries.

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“…It is also associated with negative intrapersonal outcomes (e.g., lower friendship quality, distress, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety; Bonanno et al, 2004;Westphal et al, 2010;Rodin et al, 2016;Strickland and Skolnick, 2020;Lenzo et al, 2021;Sardella et al, 2021;Shangguan et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022). Furthermore, deficits in this ability in adults are associated with social anxiety (Maccallum et al, 2021), complicated grief (Gupta and Bonanno, 2011), and in patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (Henry et al, 2009) or schizophrenia (Henry et al, 2007).…”

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Emotional Intelligence in Applied Settings: Approaches to Its Theoretical Model, Measurement, and Application

Ding,

Mortillaro,

Ramdas

2024

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Expressive flexibility and anxiety

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Expressive Flexibility and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Gender Differences

Expressive Flexibility and Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Social Support and Gender Differences

World Assumptions and Coping Related to Trauma as Predictors of General Mental Health and Acute Stress Symptoms Among Iranian Muslims During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Emotional Intelligence in Applied Settings: Approaches to Its Theoretical Model, Measurement, and Application

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