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Stress mindset
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Stress mindset

Jacob Keech and Kyra Hamilton
Encyclopedia of Behavioural Medicine, 2nd Edition
Springer Science+Business Media, 2nd Edition
2019
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_102001-1View
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Psychology Public Health and Health Services beliefs about stress implicit theories lay beliefs
Stress mindset refers to a set of beliefs individuals hold about the consequences of experiencing stress. This includes the belief that stress has enhancing consequences (i.e., a stress-is-enhancing mindset) and the contrasting belief that stress has debilitating consequences (i.e., a stress-is-debilitating mindset) for health and vitality, performance and productivity, and learning and growth (Crum et al. 2013). Stress mindset contrasts with transactional stress appraisal (Lazarus & Folkman 1984); in that the former concerns beliefs about the stress response in general which is theorized to apply across situations, whereas the latter is a single response to a stressor in a particular situation.

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