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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of social anxiety on social attention in naturalistic situations	54
Understanding coping with the climate crisis: an experimental study with young people on agency and mental health	29
The relationship between momentary experiential avoidance and anxiety symptoms	26
Cognitive reappraisal, emotional expression and mindfulness in adaptation to bereavement: a longitudinal study	20
Marriage and health: exploring the role of stress overload	16
The effects of challenge and threat states on coping flexibility: evidence from framing and exemplar priming	16
Facial infrared thermography as an index of social anxiety	14
Aging and subjective cognitive difficulties during COVID-19: stress and positive experiences	14
Integrating appraisal processes in the study demands-resources framework – a diary study	14
Supportive people evoke positive affect, but do not reduce negative affect, while supportive groups result from favorable dyadic, not group effects	14
A longitudinal person-centered investigation of the multidimensional nature of employees’ perceptions of challenge and hindrance demands at work	14
Perfectionism, wellbeing, and coping among Filipino university students: a multi-study test of the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism	13
Hearing laughter: a prescription for anxiety relief	13
A qualitative investigation of elite athletes’ coping insight patterns from self-distanced and self-immersed stressor reflections	13
Cross-sectional and longitudinal influences of stress mindset on adolescent depressive symptoms and cannabis use	12
Relationships between stress appraisals and intolerance of uncertainty with psychological health during early COVID-19 in the USA	11
Do positive memory characteristics influence daily-level trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms? an exploratory daily diary study	11
Social anxiety is related to reduced face gaze during a naturalistic social interaction	11
Ultra-brief training in cognitive reappraisal or mindfulness reduces anxiety and improves motor performance efficiency under stress	10
Implicit and explicit COVID-19 associations and mental health in the United States: a large-scale examination and replication	10
Nobody’s “Prfect”! The effect of manipulating perfectionism on social anxiety symptoms	10
Effects of cognitive flexibility on dynamics of emotion regulation and negative affect in daily life	9
Distinct and interacting impacts of trait anxiety and a state anxiety manipulation on attentional switching	9
Brief adjunctive mindfulness-based cognitive therapy via Telehealth for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Within-person associations of optimistic and pessimistic expectations with momentary stress, affect, and ambulatory blood pressure	8

The role of maladaptive emotion regulation in the bidirectional relation between sleep and depression in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Birthing during the stress of war: mode of birth and flow state	8
Cumulative genetic effects of HPA axis on social phobia scrutiny fear: psychoticism and social face as mediators	8
Perceived posttraumatic growth: positive change occurring because of or despite the trauma?	8
The associations between repetitive negative thinking, insomnia symptoms, and sleep quality in adults with a history of trauma	8
To reappraise or not to reappraise? Emotion regulation strategies moderate the association of loneliness during COVID-19 with depression and anxiety	8
The past and future of uncertainty in advanced illness: a systematic scoping review of underlying cognitive processes	7
Prolonged grief in refugees living in Germany confronted with ambiguous or confirmed loss	7
Emotion regulation strategy correlates with discrete state emotion in major depression	7
The wounded helper: moral injury contributes to depression and anxiety among Israeli health and social care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Concurrent and predictive relations of multidimensional perfectionism with test anxiety in secondary school students	7
Does repetitive negative thinking mediate the relationship between perfectionistic concerns and cognitive test anxiety?	6
Coping strategy-situation fit vs. present control: relations with perceived stress in U.S. college students	6
Examining worry and secondary stressors on grief severity using machine learning	6
The cortisol awakening response: predicting self-reported daily stress reactivity	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	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
Posttraumatic stress and COVID-19-related stressors: a prospective observational study	5
Reflection impulsivity in patients with panic disorder	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
A cognitive-behavioral approach to teacher burnout: A randomized controlled trial of a group therapy program	5
Boosting positive mood during stress: a Daily Coping Toolkit replication in college undergraduates	5
The efficacy of a stress mindset intervention on psychosocial health and daily stress processes in college students	4
Dynamic links between daily anxiety symptoms and young adults’ daily well-being	4
Lexical indicators of anxiety in schizophrenia	4
A laboratory-based examination of a standardized sexual assault script	4
Nothing means anything if everything means something: exploring the issues of coping profiles and the person-centered approach	4
Test anxiety and reading comprehension: the key role of fluid reasoning	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
The impact of moral injury on trajectories of depression: a five-year longitudinal study among recently discharged Israeli veterans	4
Emotional processing of math-related words in people with math anxiety	4
When talking goes awry: association between co-rumination and trait anxiety, test anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity in early and late adolescents	4
A multilevel analysis of the links between daily emotional labor, daily spiritual experiences, and daily stress during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Anxiety sensitivity, distress intolerance, and negative interpretation bias strengthen the relationship between trait anxiety and depersonalization	4
Within-person patterns of psychobiological stress response correspondence: links to preadolescent internalizing problems and coping behaviors	4
Evidence that specific personal relationships evoke maladaptive personality expression	3
Hindrance demands as a boundary condition to the appraisal of challenge demands	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
Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy	3
Emotion regulation and high social anxiety: spontaneous and instructed use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate anger	3
Psychological distress and everyday discrimination among Chinese international students one year into COVID-19: a preregistered comparative study	3
Social anxiety and weight interact with body salience to affect experiences of social exclusion	3
Disengagement coping and sleep problems among trauma-exposed 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
Future time perspective and depression, anxiety, and stress in adulthood	3

Posttraumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of the Turkey earthquake: exploring the role of demographics, level of exposure, and personality traits	3
Lower socioeconomic status is related to poorer emotional well-being prior to academic exams	3
Cognitive flexibility and resilience measured through a residual approach	3
Can respondents accurately self-report posttraumatic growth when coached through the required cognitive steps?	3
The mediating role of hope in the relationship between benefit finding and anxiety: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The role of meaning in life in psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Autonomic reactivity during acute social stress: exploratory investigation of an interaction by threat interpretation bias and emotion regulation difficulties	3
Coping with COVID-19: the efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic	3
Fear of the unknown as a mechanism of the inverse relation between life meaning and psychological distress	3
Social belonging, compassion, and kindness: Key ingredients for fostering resilience, recovery, and growth from 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
A coping self-insight scale for adults: development and preliminary psychometric properties	3
Irrational beliefs, depression and anxiety, in relation to 10-year cardiovascular disease risk: the ATTICA Epidemiological Study	2
Investigating the relationship between the five-factor model of distress tolerance, anxiety and anxiety sensitivity	2
Perceived social support in the social distancing era: the association between circles of potential support and COVID-19 reactive psychopathology	2
Music performance anxiety: priority targets in prevention and intervention	2
Two sides of the same coin: motivating and demotivating mediation paths of time pressure and their relationship with strain	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
Investigating the effectiveness of instructing emotion regulation flexibility to individuals with low and high anxiety	2
Character virtues prospectively predict responses to situational stressors in daily life in clinical and subclinical samples	2
Immediate emotions and subjective stakes in risky decision-making under uncertainty	2
How public commuting stress promotes employee turnover intention: an examination through the lens of the transactional theory of stress	2
Relations between worry, thought control, suicidal ideation and attempt history	2
Life meaning and mental health in post-9/11 veterans: the mediating role of perceived stress	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
Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials	2
Perceived emotion invalidation predicts daily affect and stressors	2
Anxiety sensitivity and panic symptoms: the moderating influence of distress tolerance	2
Can the positive buffer the negative? Testing the impact of protective childhood experiences on adjustment in adults following trauma exposure	2
Associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and reckless/self-destructive behaviors among firefighters: the roles of negative and positive affect	2
Social and psychological resources and COVID-19 related fear, threat and worry	2
A longitudinal study of positive mental health and coping among Indigenous adults with type 2 diabetes	2