Self-beneficial belief updating as a coping mechanism for stress-induced negative affect.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 08 2021
24 08 2021
Historique:
received:
08
01
2021
accepted:
21
07
2021
entrez:
25
8
2021
pubmed:
26
8
2021
medline:
3
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Being confronted with social-evaluative stress elicits a physiological and a psychological stress response. This calls for regulatory processes to manage negative affect and maintain self-related optimistic beliefs. The aim of the current study was to investigate the affect-regulating potential of self-related updating of ability beliefs after exposure to social-evaluative stress, in comparison to non-social physical stress or no stress. We assessed self-related belief updating using trial-by-trial performance feedback and described the updating behavior in a mechanistic way using computational modeling. We found that social-evaluative stress was accompanied by an increase in cortisol and negative affect which was related to a positive shift in self-related belief updating. This self-beneficial belief updating, which was absent after physical stress or control, was associated with a better recovery from stress-induced negative affect. This indicates that enhanced integration of positive self-related feedback can act as a coping strategy to deal with social-evaluative stress.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34429447
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-96264-0
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-96264-0
pmc: PMC8384941
doi:
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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
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© 2021. The Author(s).
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