OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Global prevalence of technostress among users of information and communication technologies: a meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis	31
The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations	26
Understanding coping with the climate crisis: an experimental study with young people on agency and mental health	20
Cumulative stressful life events and Australian women’s depressive symptom trajectories: a longitudinal study of potential non-additive effects	20
Marriage and health: exploring the role of stress overload	18
Cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression and mindfulness in adaptation to bereavement: a longitudinal study	18
Single-session expressive writing interventions for test anxiety: a meta-analysis	17
A longitudinal person-centered investigation of the multidimensional nature of employees’ perceptions of challenge and hindrance demands at work	16
Is fear of missing out (FOMO) differentially related to underlying dimensions of negative affectivity? Analyzing latent factors of rumination, depression, and negative affect	15
Aging and subjective cognitive difficulties during COVID-19: stress and positive experiences	14
The relationship between momentary experiential avoidance and anxiety symptoms	14
Integrating appraisal processes in the study demands-resources framework – a diary study	13
A qualitative investigation of elite athletes’ coping insight patterns from self-distanced and self-immersed stressor reflections	13
Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction	12
Facial infrared thermography as an index of social anxiety	12
Cross-sectional and longitudinal influences of stress mindset on adolescent depressive symptoms and cannabis use	12
Perfectionism, wellbeing, and coping among Filipino university students: a multi-study test of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism	12
Relationships between stress appraisals and intolerance of uncertainty with psychological health during early COVID-19 in the USA	11
Hearing laughter: a prescription for anxiety relief	10
Associations between birth-related stressors, social reward responsiveness, and postpartum internalizing symptoms	10
Do positive memory characteristics influence daily-level trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms? an exploratory daily diary study	10
Nobody’s “Prfect”! The effect of manipulating perfectionism on social anxiety symptoms	10
To reappraise or not to reappraise? Emotion regulation strategies moderate the association of loneliness during COVID-19 with depression and anxiety	9
Brief adjunctive mindfulness-based cognitive therapy via Telehealth for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Reappraising stress-related arousal enhances prosocial behavior in individuals perceiving the intervention as effective	9

Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication	9
The role of maladaptive emotion regulation in the bidirectional relation between sleep and depression in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Cumulative genetic effects of HPA axis on social phobia scrutiny fear: psychoticism and social face as mediators	9
Within-person associations of optimistic and pessimistic expectations with momentary stress, affect, and ambulatory blood pressure	8
Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life	8
The influence of unfinished tasks on subjective ease of falling asleep via negative emotions at work: a diary study	8
Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduces anxiety and improves motor performance efficiency under stress	8
The associations between repetitive negative thinking, insomnia symptoms, and sleep quality in adults with a history of trauma	8
Brief mindfulness meditation based on Buddhist Anapanasati regulates stress response in young Chinese males	8
Birthing during the stress of war: mode of birth and flow state	7
Perceived posttraumatic growth: positive change occurring because of or despite the trauma?	7
Value changes during war: coping with direct and indirect threats	6
Coping strategy-situation fit vs. present control: relations with perceived stress in U.S. college students	6
Associations between mindfulness and mental health after collective trauma: results from a longitudinal, representative, probability-based survey	6
Modeling micro- versus macro-level processes on the path to common psychiatric disorders: a replication in emerging adults	6
The development of anxiety and depression in Chinese high school students and associated factors: a latent transition analysis	6
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	6
The past and future of uncertainty in advanced illness: a systematic scoping review of underlying cognitive processes	6
The effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on romantic couples’ physiology and behavior during conflict	6
Generalized anxiety disorder symptoms and daily social behavior predict hair cortisol concentration	6
The role of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety on compulsive exercise in adolescents	6
The cortisol awakening response: predicting self-reported daily stress reactivity	6
Examining worry and secondary stressors on grief severity using machine learning	6
A brief nonattachment intervention based on the three marks of existence: development, rationale, and initial evidence	5
Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being	5
Boosting positive mood during stress: a Daily Coping Toolkit replication in college undergraduates	5
A cognitive-behavioral approach to teacher burnout: A randomized controlled trial of a group therapy program	5
Reflection impulsivity in patients with panic disorder	5
Emotional processing of math-related words in people with math anxiety	5
Test anxiety and reading comprehension: the key role of fluid reasoning	5
Posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic distress relationship across time: a change dynamics approach	5
Cognitive predictors of stress-induced mood malleability in depression	5
When talking goes awry: association between co-rumination and trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity in early and late adolescents	5
The efficacy of a stress mindset intervention on psychosocial health and daily stress processes in college students	5
A multilevel analysis of the links between daily emotional labor, daily spiritual experiences, and daily stress during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Understanding job demands and resources through network analysis: insights into workplace interconnectivity	5
Nothing means anything if everything means something: exploring the issues of coping profiles and the person-centered approach	4
Investigating profiles of positive and negative imagery ability with stress-related outcomes	4
A laboratory-based examination of a standardized sexual assault script	4
Future time perspective and depression, anxiety, and stress in adulthood	4
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	4
Lexical indicators of anxiety in schizophrenia	4
A longitudinal model of emotion pathways to growth, depreciation, and health outcomes after life stress	4
Bidirectional associations between negative relationship events and suicidal ideation: an EMA study of stress exposure and generation	4
The impact of moral injury on trajectories of depression: a five-year longitudinal study among recently discharged Israeli veterans	4
Looking back and moving forward: dimensions of coping flexibility divergently predict long-term bereavement outcomes	4
Antenatal anxiety symptoms outperform antenatal depression symptoms and suicidal ideation as a risk factor for postpartum suicidal ideation	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
Coping with COVID-19: the efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic	4

Disengagement coping and sleep problems among trauma-exposed adolescents	4
Posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquake: exploring the role of demographics, level of exposure, and personality traits	3
Emotion regulation and high social anxiety: spontaneous and instructed use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate anger	3
Evidence that specific personal relationships evoke maladaptive personality expression	3
Coping profiles across adulthood: findings from a 3-wave longitudinal study using latent profile transition analysis	3
Autonomic reactivity during acute social stress: exploratory investigation of an interaction by threat interpretation bias and emotion regulation difficulties	3
Hindrance demands as a boundary condition to the appraisal of challenge demands	3
Social anxiety and weight interact with body salience to affect experiences of social exclusion	3
A coping self-insight scale for adults: development and preliminary psychometric properties	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
Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy	3
The role of meaning in life in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Hopelessness mediates the relationship between self-perceptions of aging and negative affect: within-person results from the health and retirement study	3
Psychological distress and negative life events among university students: mapping patterns of exposure and impact	3
Unfinished work tasks and work-related thoughts during off-job time: meta-analysis of the Zeigarnik effect in a work-recovery context	3
Cognitive flexibility and resilience measured through a residual approach	2
An experimental examination of the situational variables that influence the traumatic stress response	2
There’s no place like dorm: actual-ideal dorm ambiance as a unique predictor of undergraduate mental health	2
Improving stress mindset through education and imagery	2
Daily interpersonal tensions as predictors of threats to communion and agency, coping, and perceived coping efficacy: role of adverse childhood experiences	2
Emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between self-compassion and social anxiety: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study	2
Life meaning and mental health in post-9/11 veterans: the mediating role of perceived stress	2
Associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and reckless/self-destructive behaviors among firefighters: the roles of negative and positive affect	2
A longitudinal study of positive mental health and coping among Indigenous adults with type 2 diabetes	2
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials	2
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry	2
Relations between worry, thought control, suicidal ideation and attempt history	2
Investigating the relationship between the five-factor model of distress tolerance, anxiety and anxiety sensitivity	2
Two sides of the same coin: motivating and demotivating mediation paths of time pressure and their relationship with strain	2
Psychological distress and everyday discrimination among Chinese international students one year into COVID-19: a preregistered comparative study	2
Investigating the effectiveness of instructing emotion regulation flexibility to individuals with low and high anxiety	2
Self-compassion as a shield? Investigating self-compassion’s prospective role in buffering the effects of traumatic and negative life events	2
Perceived and behavioral distress tolerance: links with avoidance and anxiety	2
Anxiety sensitivity and panic symptoms: the moderating influence of distress tolerance	2
How public commuting stress promotes employee turnover intention: an examination through the lens of the transactional theory of stress	2
Emotion polyregulation and daily negative affect: predictors of use and strategy-level effectiveness	2