The psychological impact of social problem solving under stress in adults: Debased life satisfaction, heightened depressed mood, or both?

Fuente, Amaia de la; Chang, Edward C.; Cardeñoso, Olga; Chang, Olivia D.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.033

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“…Perceived stress is considered as dysfunctional problem solving because a person who feels stress tends to choose negative social problem-solving, and vice versa, stay away from posi-tive social problem-solving (De la Fuente, Chang, Cardenoso, & Chang, 2019;Roy, Schwartz-Mette, & Nangle, 2020). Youth is a prone age to dysfunctional social problem-solving (De la Fuente, Chang, Cardenoso, & Chang, 2019). For freshmen, various demands from the academy are sources of heavy stress (Amirkhan & Kofman, 2018).…”

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Do loneliness, perceived stress, and communication skill with peers predict social problem-solving in freshmen during COVID-19 pandemic?

Putri

Rahardjo

Pranandari

et al. 2023

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The condition of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the enactment of physical distancing and staying at home policy. With this isolation, face-to-face activities are replaced by online activities. Several studies have found that distancing has an impact on increasing anxiety and stress in college students. This is inseparable from their ability in social problem-solving. The aim of this study was to determine how loneliness, perceived stress, communication skills with peers influence social problem-solving. Participants were 702 freshmen from University X and domiciled in the Jakarta Greater Area and several other cities. The instruments were the Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised Short-Form, UCLA Loneliness Scale Short Version (ULS-8), Perceived Stress Scale, and the Interpersonal Communication Scale. The data was collected through an online questionnaire and were analyzed using hierarchical regression. The dynamics of research results show that loneliness has a significant effect on social problem-solving. When perceived stress is included in the model, the effect of loneliness on social problem-solving decreases and tends to be weak, although still significant, the effect of perceived stress is much stronger. When communication skills with peers are included in the model, the effect of loneliness is no longer significant and the effect of perceived stress decreases, but it becomes the strongest variable affecting social problem-solving. On the other side, the three independent variables have a great influence on solving social problems in freshmen.

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Do loneliness, perceived stress, and communication skill with peers predict social problem-solving in freshmen during COVID-19 pandemic?

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Rahardjo

Pranandari

et al. 2023

JPS

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“…Hatam, Abolghasemi, and Kafi (2019) revealed that while SPS skills increased, RS and AS were improved due to the influence of empathy training. In Spain, De la Fuente, Chang, Cardeñoso, and Chang (2019) indicated that weak SPS was connected to stress and was not associated with poorer psychological adjustment (i.e., greater depressive symptoms and less life satisfaction). Kasik, József Balázs, Guti, Gáspár, and Zsolnai (2018) exhibited that IS was found among 12 years old; AS was higher among 14 years old; while RS and AS were common among 16 years old.…”

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The characteristics of social problem-solving among Palestinian adolescents

Aburezeq

Kasik

2023

HERJ

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Social problem-solving skills are the individual's way for better social adaptation. Therefore, the study aimed to investigate the characteristics of Palestinian adolescents' social problem-solving (Positive orientation, negative orientation, rational style, impulsive style, and avoidance style) in connection to some demographic variables (i.e. gender, age, family composition, father's education, and mother's education). As an instrument, Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised (SPSI-R) was applied to 410 Palestinian adolescents whose ages (12, 15, and 18 years old). The results showed that the Palestinian adolescents had the highest level of positive orientation and the least level of negative problem orientation towards solving social-problems. In addition, the finding showed that there were no differences between girls and boys in positive orientation, rational style and impulsive style, while females had a tendency towards negative orientation and avoidance style. There were no differences attributed to age in negative orientation, rational style, impulsive style, and avoidance style. However, it was found that positive orientation was prominent in 18 years old. There was no difference in adolescents' family composition in their dealing with social problems. Also, there was no difference in solving social problems attributed to the father's education. However, there was no difference in negative orientation, positive orientation, rational style, and impulsive style attributed to mother's education. However, there was a relationship between the mother who has elementary school and avoidance style.

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“…Among Hispanic college students, Chesin and Jeglic (2012) found that both depression and PPO were significant predictors of suicide in their sample of Latina undergraduates. Further, among students in Northern Spain, low PPO and high NPO predicted depressive symptoms, whereby NPO significantly interacted with stress in predicting depression (de la Fuente et al, 2019).…”

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“…In essence, then, the relationship between SPS and depression can be characterized as a diathesis-stress association-ineffective SPS is considered to be a vulnerability factor that, when triggered by a stressful event, increases the probability of depression occurring. Several studies have directly addressed this concept and found that SPS is a significant moderator of the association between stress and depression, suggesting that effective SPS serves to mitigate against the negative impact of stress (Bell & D'Zurilla, 2009a;Brack et al, 1992;Cheng, 2001;de la Fuente et al, 2019;Frye & Goodman, 2000;Goodman et al, 1995;Nezu et al, 1986;Nezu & Ronan, 1985, 1988Priester & Clum, 1993;Spence et al, 2003;Yang & Clum, 1994).…”

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Ineffective social problem solving.

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Nezu²,

Damico³

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Treatment of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Depression.

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C onventional wisdom suggests that the experience of stress is ubiquitous and omnipresent. Conventional wisdom also posits that a modicum of stress is important for our daily lives-if we did not have it, we would not get up in the morning and go to school or work. A further truism (which research findings confirm; e.g., Vrshek-Schallhorn et al., 2020) indicates that too much stress can lead to negative consequences, such as depression. However, we opine that it is not the presence of stress per se that engenders psychopathology but how we handle or manage such stress that best predicts the likelihood of experiencing depressive reactions. As such, this chapter focuses on ineffective social problem solving (SPS) as one major risk or vulnerability factor for depression, as well as on how psychosocial interventions aimed at improving SPS can attenuate such distress. DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTSWe begin by differentiating between the constructs of problem solving and social problem solving. The topic of problem solving has been the focus of many decades of research within the fields of cognitive and experimental psychology. As such, human problem solving has been conceptualized as a higher order set of cognitive processes and one major aspect of executive functioning. Such research generally addresses how individuals attempt to solve cognitive, mathematical, or intellectual problems, as compared with the types of problems that people experience in living (e.g., dealing with financial stressors,

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The psychological impact of social problem solving under stress in adults: Debased life satisfaction, heightened depressed mood, or both?

Cited by 12 publications

References 45 publications

Do loneliness, perceived stress, and communication skill with peers predict social problem-solving in freshmen during COVID-19 pandemic?

Do loneliness, perceived stress, and communication skill with peers predict social problem-solving in freshmen during COVID-19 pandemic?

The characteristics of social problem-solving among Palestinian adolescents

Ineffective social problem solving.

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