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

Article	Citations
Cumulative stressful life events and Australian women’s depressive symptom trajectories: a longitudinal study of potential non-additive effects	30
Understanding coping with the climate crisis: an experimental study with young people on agency and mental health	19
The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations	18
Marriage and health: exploring the role of stress overload	18
Cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression and mindfulness in adaptation to bereavement: a longitudinal study	16
The effects of challenge and threat states on coping flexibility: evidence from framing and exemplar priming	16
The relationship between momentary experiential avoidance and anxiety symptoms	16
A longitudinal person-centered investigation of the multidimensional nature of employees’ perceptions of challenge and hindrance demands at work	15
Single-session expressive writing interventions for test anxiety: a meta-analysis	13
Aging and subjective cognitive difficulties during COVID-19: stress and positive experiences	13
A qualitative investigation of elite athletes’ coping insight patterns from self-distanced and self-immersed stressor reflections	12
Facial infrared thermography as an index of social anxiety	12
Integrating appraisal processes in the study demands-resources framework – a diary study	11
Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction	11
Perfectionism, wellbeing, and coping among Filipino university students: a multi-study test of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism	11
Do positive memory characteristics influence daily-level trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms? an exploratory daily diary study	10
Relationships between stress appraisals and intolerance of uncertainty with psychological health during early COVID-19 in the USA	10
Hearing laughter: a prescription for anxiety relief	10
Cross-sectional and longitudinal influences of stress mindset on adolescent depressive symptoms and cannabis use	10
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
Nobody’s “Prfect”! The effect of manipulating perfectionism on social anxiety symptoms	9
Brief adjunctive mindfulness-based cognitive therapy via Telehealth for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduces anxiety and improves motor performance efficiency under stress	8
Cumulative genetic effects of HPA axis on social phobia scrutiny fear: psychoticism and social face as mediators	8

Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life	8
To reappraise or not to reappraise? Emotion regulation strategies moderate the association of loneliness during COVID-19 with depression and anxiety	8
Generalized anxiety disorder symptoms and daily social behavior predict hair cortisol concentration	7
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
Concurrent and predictive relations of multidimensional perfectionism with test anxiety in secondary school students	7
The associations between repetitive negative thinking, insomnia symptoms, and sleep quality in adults with a history of trauma	7
The past and future of uncertainty in advanced illness: a systematic scoping review of underlying cognitive processes	6
The wounded helper: moral injury contributes to depression and anxiety among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Value changes during war: coping with direct and indirect threats	6
Within-person associations of optimistic and pessimistic expectations with momentary stress, affect, and ambulatory blood pressure	6
Coping strategy-situation fit vs. present control: relations with perceived stress in U.S. college students	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 influence of unfinished tasks on subjective ease of falling asleep via negative emotions at work: a diary study	6
The role of intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety on compulsive exercise in adolescents	6
Associations between mindfulness and mental health after collective trauma: results from a longitudinal, representative, probability-based survey	5
Understanding job demands and resources through network analysis: insights into workplace interconnectivity	5
Reflection impulsivity in patients with panic disorder	5
A multilevel analysis of the links between daily emotional labor, daily spiritual experiences, and daily stress during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
When talking goes awry: association between co-rumination and trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity in early and late adolescents	5
Antenatal anxiety symptoms outperform antenatal depression symptoms and suicidal ideation as a risk factor for postpartum suicidal ideation	5
Boosting positive mood during stress: a Daily Coping Toolkit replication in college undergraduates	5
Examining worry and secondary stressors on grief severity using machine learning	5
Posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic distress relationship across time: a change dynamics approach	5
Posttraumatic stress and COVID-19-related stressors: a prospective observational study	5
Emotional processing of math-related words in people with math anxiety	5
Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being	5
Investigating profiles of positive and negative imagery ability with stress-related outcomes	5
The cortisol awakening response: predicting self-reported daily stress reactivity	5
A cognitive-behavioral approach to teacher burnout: A randomized controlled trial of a group therapy program	5
A brief nonattachment intervention based on the three marks of existence: development, rationale, and initial evidence	5
Cognitive predictors of stress-induced mood malleability in depression	5
The efficacy of a stress mindset intervention on psychosocial health and daily stress processes in college students	5
Test anxiety and reading comprehension: the key role of fluid reasoning	5
Lexical indicators of anxiety in schizophrenia	5
Future time perspective and depression, anxiety, and stress in adulthood	4
Hindrance demands as a boundary condition to the appraisal of challenge demands	4
Resting respiratory sinus arrythmia and cognitive reappraisal moderate the link between political climate stress and anxiety symptoms in Latina and Black mothers	4
Bidirectional associations between negative relationship events and suicidal ideation: an EMA study of stress exposure and generation	4
A laboratory-based examination of a standardized sexual assault script	4
Disengagement coping and sleep problems among trauma-exposed adolescents	4
Looking back and moving forward: dimensions of coping flexibility divergently predict long-term bereavement outcomes	4
Nothing means anything if everything means something: exploring the issues of coping profiles and the person-centered approach	4
Coping with COVID-19: the efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic	4
The impact of moral injury on trajectories of depression: a five-year longitudinal study among recently discharged Israeli veterans	4
The mediating role of hope in the relationship between benefit finding and anxiety: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	4
A longitudinal model of emotion pathways to growth, depreciation, and health outcomes after life stress	4
Associations of specific emotion and symptom mindsets with clinical symptoms, treatment attitudes, and treatment preference	4
Families serve too: military spouse well-being after separation from active-duty service	4
The role of meaning in life in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic	3

Lower socioeconomic status is related to poorer emotional well-being prior to academic exams	3
Social anxiety and weight interact with body salience to affect experiences of social exclusion	3
Cognitive flexibility and resilience measured through a residual approach	3
Posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquake: exploring the role of demographics, level of exposure, and personality traits	3
Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy	3
Psychological distress and negative life events among university students: mapping patterns of exposure and impact	3
A coping self-insight scale for adults: development and preliminary psychometric properties	3
Emotion regulation and high social anxiety: spontaneous and instructed use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate anger	3
Autonomic reactivity during acute social stress: exploratory investigation of an interaction by threat interpretation bias and emotion regulation difficulties	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
Coping profiles across adulthood: findings from a 3-wave longitudinal study using latent profile transition analysis	3
Life meaning and mental health in post-9/11 veterans: the mediating role of perceived stress	2
Emotional intelligence mediates the relationship between self-compassion and social anxiety: a meta-analytic structural equation modeling study	2
Investigating the effectiveness of instructing emotion regulation flexibility to individuals with low and high anxiety	2
Hopelessness mediates the relationship between self-perceptions of aging and negative affect: within-person results from the health and retirement study	2
Irrational beliefs, depression and anxiety, in relation to 10-year cardiovascular disease risk: the ATTICA Epidemiological Study	2
Improving stress mindset through education and imagery	2
Big ideas series: self-regulation shift theory: trauma, suicide, and violence	2
Investigating the relationship between the five-factor model of distress tolerance, anxiety and anxiety sensitivity	2
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry	2
There’s no place like dorm: actual-ideal dorm ambiance as a unique predictor of undergraduate mental health	2
Anxiety sensitivity and panic symptoms: the moderating influence of distress tolerance	2
Perceived and behavioral distress tolerance: links with avoidance and anxiety	2
Can respondents accurately self-report posttraumatic growth when coached through the required cognitive steps?	2
A longitudinal study of positive mental health and coping among Indigenous adults with type 2 diabetes	2
Two sides of the same coin: motivating and demotivating mediation paths of time pressure and their relationship with strain	2
Music performance anxiety: priority targets in prevention and intervention	2
Relations between worry, thought control, suicidal ideation and attempt history	2
Perceived emotion invalidation predicts daily affect and stressors	2
Associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and reckless/self-destructive behaviors among firefighters: the roles of negative and positive affect	2
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials	2
Psychological distress and everyday discrimination among Chinese international students one year into COVID-19: a preregistered comparative study	2
Evidence that specific personal relationships evoke maladaptive personality expression	2
Self-compassion as a shield? Investigating self-compassion’s prospective role in buffering the effects of traumatic and negative life events	2
Effect of brief dog-assisted interventions on psychobiological indicators of stress: a systematic review	2
How public commuting stress promotes employee turnover intention: an examination through the lens of the transactional theory of stress	2
Daily interpersonal tensions as predictors of threats to communion and agency, coping, and perceived coping efficacy: role of adverse childhood experiences	2