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Papers

(The median citation count of Anxiety Stress and Coping is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations	50
Understanding coping with the climate crisis: an experimental study with young people on agency and mental health	41
The relationship between momentary experiential avoidance and anxiety symptoms	25
The effects of challenge and threat states on coping flexibility: evidence from framing and exemplar priming	25
Cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression and mindfulness in adaptation to bereavement: a longitudinal study	24
A longitudinal person-centered investigation of the multidimensional nature of employees’ perceptions of challenge and hindrance demands at work	23
Marriage and health: exploring the role of stress overload	18
Facial infrared thermography as an index of social anxiety	16
Integrating appraisal processes in the study demands-resources framework – a diary study	16
Supportive people evoke positive affect, but do not reduce negative affect, while supportive groups result from favorable dyadic, not group effects	15
Do positive memory characteristics influence daily-level trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms? an exploratory daily diary study	14
Hearing laughter: a prescription for anxiety relief	14
Aging and subjective cognitive difficulties during COVID-19: stress and positive experiences	14
Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction	13
Relationships between stress appraisals and intolerance of uncertainty with psychological health during early COVID-19 in the USA	13
Nobody’s “Prfect”! The effect of manipulating perfectionism on social anxiety symptoms	13
Distinct and interacting impacts of trait anxiety and a state anxiety manipulation on attentional switching	12
To reappraise or not to reappraise? Emotion regulation strategies moderate the association of loneliness during COVID-19 with depression and anxiety	12
The role of maladaptive emotion regulation in the bidirectional relation between sleep and depression in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Brief adjunctive mindfulness-based cognitive therapy via Telehealth for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication	11
Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduces anxiety and improves motor performance efficiency under stress	11
Cognitive bias modification for threat interpretations: using passive Mobile Sensing to detect intervention effects in daily life	11
Birthing during the stress of war: mode of birth and flow state	10
Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life	10

Prolonged grief in refugees living in Germany confronted with ambiguous or confirmed loss	10
The associations between repetitive negative thinking, insomnia symptoms, and sleep quality in adults with a history of trauma	10
Perceived posttraumatic growth: positive change occurring because of or despite the trauma?	9
Concurrent and predictive relations of multidimensional perfectionism with test anxiety in secondary school students	9
The wounded helper: moral injury contributes to depression and anxiety among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Coping strategy-situation fit vs. present control: relations with perceived stress in U.S. college students	9
Effects of mask-wearing on social anxiety: an exploratory review	9
Within-person associations of optimistic and pessimistic expectations with momentary stress, affect, and ambulatory blood pressure	9
Emotion regulation strategy correlates with discrete state emotion in major depression	8
Received support in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence: reciprocal relations among perceived support, community solidarity, and PTSD	8
The past and future of uncertainty in advanced illness: a systematic scoping review of underlying cognitive processes	8
How is variability in physiological responses to social stress related to punishment and reward sensitivities? Preliminary findings from the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality per	8
The role of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety on compulsive exercise in adolescents	7
Does repetitive negative thinking mediate the relationship between perfectionistic concerns and cognitive test anxiety?	7
Coping under a COVID-19 lockdown: patterns of daily coping and individual differences in coping repertoires	7
Examining worry and secondary stressors on grief severity using machine learning	6
The impact of emotion regulation therapy on emotion differentiation in psychologically distressed caregivers of cancer patients	6
A cognitive-behavioral approach to teacher burnout: A randomized controlled trial of a group therapy program	6
Student aggression against teachers, stress, and emotional intelligence as predictors of withdrawal intentions among secondary school teachers	6
A brief nonattachment intervention based on the three marks of existence: development, rationale, and initial evidence	6
Associations between mindfulness and mental health after collective trauma: results from a longitudinal, representative, probability-based survey	6
The moderating effects of reported pre-pandemic social anxiety, symptom impairment, and current stressors on mental health and affiliative adjustment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Posttraumatic stress and COVID-19-related stressors: a prospective observational study	5
Reflection impulsivity in patients with panic disorder	5
Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being	5
Cognitive predictors of stress-induced mood malleability in depression	5
Boosting positive mood during stress: a Daily Coping Toolkit replication in college undergraduates	5
Test anxiety and reading comprehension: the key role of fluid reasoning	5
A multilevel analysis of the links between daily emotional labor, daily spiritual experiences, and daily stress during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Emotional processing of math-related words in people with math anxiety	5
When talking goes awry: association between co-rumination and trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity in early and late adolescents	5
Lexical indicators of anxiety in schizophrenia	4
Short mindfulness-based intervention for psychological and academic outcomes among university students	4
Coping with COVID-19: the efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic	4
A laboratory-based examination of a standardized sexual assault script	4
Resting respiratory sinus arrythmia and cognitive reappraisal moderate the link between political climate stress and anxiety symptoms in Latina and Black mothers	4
Associations of specific emotion and symptom mindsets with clinical symptoms, treatment attitudes, and treatment preference	4
Depression and anxiety in cardiac rehabilitation: differential associations with changes in exercise capacity and quality of life	4
Within-person patterns of psychobiological stress response correspondence: links to preadolescent internalizing problems and coping behaviors	4
The efficacy of a stress mindset intervention on psychosocial health and daily stress processes in college students	4
Nothing means anything if everything means something: exploring the issues of coping profiles and the person-centered approach	4
Future time perspective and depression, anxiety, and stress in adulthood	4
The impact of moral injury on trajectories of depression: a five-year longitudinal study among recently discharged Israeli veterans	4
Anxiety sensitivity, distress intolerance, and negative interpretation bias strengthen the relationship between trait anxiety and depersonalization	4
Antenatal anxiety symptoms outperform antenatal depression symptoms and suicidal ideation as a risk factor for postpartum suicidal ideation	4
Sequential multiple mediation of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance in the relationship between rumination and social anxiety among Chinese adolescents	3
The association between procrastination in academic writing and negative emotional states during the COVID-19 pandemic: the indirect effects of stress coping styles and self-efficacy	3
Lower socioeconomic status is related to poorer emotional well-being prior to academic exams	3
The mediating role of hope in the relationship between benefit finding and anxiety: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Families serve too: military spouse well-being after separation from active-duty service	3

Looking back and moving forward: dimensions of coping flexibility divergently predict long-term bereavement outcomes	3
Disengagement coping and sleep problems among trauma-exposed adolescents	3
The role of meaning in life in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Psychological distress and everyday discrimination among Chinese international students one year into COVID-19: a preregistered comparative study	3
Fear of the unknown as a mechanism of the inverse relation between life meaning and psychological distress	3
Autonomic reactivity during acute social stress: exploratory investigation of an interaction by threat interpretation bias and emotion regulation difficulties	3
Posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquake: exploring the role of demographics, level of exposure, and personality traits	3
Hindrance demands as a boundary condition to the appraisal of challenge demands	3
Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy	3
Restoration-oriented stressors of bereavement	2
Character virtues prospectively predict responses to situational stressors in daily life in clinical and subclinical samples	2
Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: change and predictors of change from strict to discontinued social distancing protocols	2
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry	2
Irrational beliefs, depression and anxiety, in relation to 10-year cardiovascular disease risk: the ATTICA Epidemiological Study	2
Can respondents accurately self-report posttraumatic growth when coached through the required cognitive steps?	2
Social anxiety and weight interact with body salience to affect experiences of social exclusion	2
Social belonging, compassion, and kindness: Key ingredients for fostering resilience, recovery, and growth from the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Life meaning and mental health in post-9/11 veterans: the mediating role of perceived stress	2
A comparison of coping and safety-seeking behaviors	2
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials	2
A coping self-insight scale for adults: development and preliminary psychometric properties	2
Cognitive flexibility and resilience measured through a residual approach	2
Investigating the effectiveness of instructing emotion regulation flexibility to individuals with low and high anxiety	2
People who contracted COVID-19: the mediating role of shame and guilt in the link between threatening illness perception and mental health measures	2
Improving stress mindset through education and imagery	2
There’s no place like dorm: actual-ideal dorm ambiance as a unique predictor of undergraduate mental health	2
A longitudinal study of positive mental health and coping among Indigenous adults with type 2 diabetes	2
Hopelessness mediates the relationship between self-perceptions of aging and negative affect: within-person results from the health and retirement study	2
Evidence that specific personal relationships evoke maladaptive personality expression	2