2024-01-29 バース大学
◆395人のスポーツ選手を対象に行ったオンライン調査で、ストレス評価、健康、幸福に焦点を当て、ストレスを挑戦と見なす能力が高いほど、健康と幸福が報告されやすいと結論づけられました。ストレスを脅威と見なし続けることが、うつ病などの精神的健康問題、風邪やインフルエンザなどの身体疾患、おそらくは常に圧倒感を感じたり免疫系が抑制されたりすることからくる幸福の低下と関連しています。
◆研究者は、ストレスを脅威と見なす傾向がある人々には、ストレスに対処するための戦略を学ばせ、それを挑戦と見なすように促すことで、将来の健康と幸福に良い影響を与える可能性があると期待しています。
<関連情報>
- https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/when-a-stressful-situation-is-perceived-as-a-threat-health-and-wellbeing-suffer/
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smi.3358
ストレスの多い状況をより脅威として評価する傾向は、より悪い健康と幸福と関連している。 The tendency to appraise stressful situations as more of a threat is associated with poorer health and well-being
Ella McLoughlin, Rachel Arnold, Lee J. Moore
Stress and Health Published: 18 December 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3358
Abstract
It has been argued that habitually appraising stressful events as more of a threat (i.e., situational demands exceed personal coping resources) may increase one’s risk of ill-health (e.g., depression). However, while first theorized 15 years ago, little research has tested this assertion. Thus, this study offered a novel test of the associations between trait challenge and threat appraisals and health-related outcomes (i.e., mental health symptomology, psychological well-being, and physical health complaints). Three hundred and ninety-five participants (251 female, 144 male; Mage = 22.50 years, SD = 5.33) completed valid and reliable measures of trait challenge and threat appraisals, mental health (i.e., symptoms of depression and anxiety), well-being (e.g., subjective vitality), and physical health complaints (e.g., respiratory illnesses). Regression analyses revealed that trait challenge and threat appraisals accounted for a significant proportion of variance in all outcomes after controlling for age and gender, with a tendency to appraise stressful events as more of a threat associated with poorer mental health (i.e., greater depression symptomology), well-being (e.g., lower vitality), and physical health (e.g., more respiratory illnesses). Taken together, the findings highlight the importance of trait challenge and threat appraisals for health, although further research is needed using stronger designs (e.g., longitudinal) to enable a more causal understanding.
