Bosshard, Michel; Gomez, Patrick (2024). Effectiveness of stress arousal reappraisal and stress-is-enhancing mindset interventions on task performance outcomes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Scientific Reports, 14(7923) Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41598-024-58408-w
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Stress arousal reappraisal (SAR) and stress-is-enhancing (SIE) mindset interventions aim to promote a more adaptive stress response by educating individuals about the functionality of stress. As part of this framework, an adaptive stress response is coupled with improved performance on stressful tasks. The goal of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions on task performance. The literature search yielded 44 effect sizes, and a random-effects model with Knapp-Hartung adjustment was used to pool them. The results revealed an overall small significant improvement in task performance (d = 0.23, p < 0.001). The effect size was significantly larger for mixed interventions (i.e., SAR/SIE mindset instructions combined with additional content, k = 5, d = 0.45, p = 0.004) than SAR-only interventions (k = 33, d = 0.22, p < 0.001) and SIE mindset-only interventions (k = 6, d = 0.18, p = 0.22) and tended to be larger for public performance tasks than cognitive written tasks (k = 14, d = 0.34, p < 0.001 vs. k = 30, d = 0.20, p = 0.002). Although SAR and SIE mindset interventions are not "silver bullets", they offer a promising cost-effective low-threshold approach to improve performance across various domains.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute for Medical Education 04 Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education > Institute for Medical Education > Assessment and Evaluation Unit (AAE) |
Graduate School: |
Graduate School for Health Sciences (GHS) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Bosshard, Michel |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
2045-2322 |
Publisher: |
Nature Publishing Group |
Language: |
English |
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Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
08 Apr 2024 12:31 |
Last Modified: |
08 Apr 2024 12:40 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1038/s41598-024-58408-w |
PubMed ID: |
38575696 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/195682 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/195682 |
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