The Frustration Social Stressor for Adolescents (FSS-A): A newly adapted psychosocial stressor
| Autor: | Saman Fouladirad, Stacey L. McKay, Catherine Ann Cameron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Hydrocortisone media_common.quotation_subject Anger Anxiety behavioral disciplines and activities Frustration Intervention (counseling) 0502 economics and business Stress (linguistics) Trier social stress test Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Saliva Applied Psychology media_common Psychomotor learning 05 social sciences Stressor General Medicine Mental health Anxiety Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Female Psychology Psychosocial 050203 business & management Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of StressREFERENCES. 37(4) |
| ISSN: | 1532-2998 |
| Popis: | The role of stress on adolescents and its impact on development and mental health is of significant psychological concern. Previous research has investigated physiological changes, stressor characteristics and individual differences in stress responding. Experimental procedures that closely simulate naturally occurring psychosocial stressors have primarily been achievement-related (e.g., test taking, competitive tasks and psychomotor performance) and anxiety-provoking tasks (e.g., public speaking, improvisation and invasive medical-procedures) but few seek to elicit frustration. To address this gap, a new experimental procedure was developed and validated against the Trier Social Stress Test for Teens, with a Low Stress condition as a control. Conflict-related stressors, such as parent- and peer-related debates, have been found to be effective in provoking frustration in adolescents. The Frustration Social Stressor for Adolescents (FSS-A), a moderate frustration-provoking stressor involves a peer debate on a 'hot' topic, followed by a serial subtraction task with still-faced judges. The FSS-A procedure effectively elicited reliable and valid physiological (cortisol, heart rate) stress responses and was an effective stressor for both sexes. This new, stress protocol mirrors frustrating- and anxiety-provoking stressful situations that adolescents commonly encounter and affords a more detailed study of differential stress response patterns, increased understanding of adolescent stress, and potential for psychoeducational programming, such as directions for education and therapeutic intervention. |
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