Englert, Chris; Bechler, Aline; Singh, Sarah; Bertrams, Alex (2018). Testing the effectiveness of a short-term stress prevention programme in primary school students. Health psychology bulletin, 2(1), pp. 1-9. Ubiquity Press 10.5334/hpb.11
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The present study tested the effectiveness of a four-week, school-based, universal cognitive-behavioural stress prevention programme. The prevention programme included short daily exercises which were adopted from two well-validated anti stress trainings. The daily exercises took approximately 10−15 minutes on average and were performed during regular classroom sessions. Half of the classes were randomly assigned to the prevention group (n = 80), while the other half were sorted into the non-treatment control group, which did not take part in the stress prevention programme (n = 73). The students’ physical and psychological stress-related symptoms were assessed five times (i.e., prior to the training and after each week of training). Their coping strategies, self-efficacy and self-control were also measured. It was hypothesized that in the prevention group students’ physical and psychological stress-related symptoms would significantly decrease over time, compared to the non-treatment control group. Contrary to our predictions, the prevention programme did not lead to statistically significant changes in physical or psychological stress-related symptoms. The students’ coping strategies, self-efficacy and self-control did not have an influence on the result patterns. The results indicate that short-term stress prevention programmes may not be as effective as long-term programmes.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Education > Educational Psychology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Englert, Christoph, Bertrams, Alexander Gregor |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
2398-5941 |
Publisher: |
Ubiquity Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Alexander Gregor Bertrams-Pencik |
Date Deposited: |
24 Jan 2019 14:47 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:23 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.5334/hpb.11 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.122964 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/122964 |
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