Coping With Everyday Stressors: The Effects of Awe

应对日常压力：敬畏的影响

• 批准号: 1823497
• 负责人: Mark Seery
• 金额: $ 33.51万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1823497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Coping; Everyday; Stressors; Effects; Awe

In times of stress, people often turn to spirituality, religion, or interacting with the natural world as a way to cope. These methods of coping may have benefits, such as social support during religious observance or relaxation while hiking in a forest. However, these coping strategies also share an unstudied element that may affect how well people cope with stress: the experience of awe. Awe is an emotion that comes from being in the presence of something so large or vast that it is difficult to make sense of it. An example is being immersed in a grand natural scene. This project aims to understand when and why awe helps people to cope better with stressful situations faced in everyday life, such as test taking, public speaking, or experiencing physical discomfort. Understanding the role of awe in effective coping can help to identify relatively simple techniques that people can use to help themselves rise to the occasion during something stressful rather than be overwhelmed by it.This project centers on the idea that awe makes people feel like they and their concerns are small in comparison to whatever induced that sense of awe. The specific nature of this experience should have important, and possibly contradictory, effects on coping with stress. If something that inspires awe makes a stressful situation seem negligible in comparison, that stressful situation should seem more manageable to cope with. In contrast, if something that inspires awe makes one's own capabilities seem insignificant, the stressful situation should seem less manageable. A set of studies assess personality characteristics and experimentally create psychological states that should make these types of focus during awe more versus less likely. Multiple methods will be used to study these effects, including measurements of bodily responses and behavior. This will allow tests of awe's effects on people's psychological experience as stress happens and on behaviors that can be self-destructive in the context of facing difficulties. The long-term goal of the research is to achieve a deeper understanding of when and why awe helps people cope with everyday stressors. Understanding simple ways to foster positive responses to everyday stressors can enhance resilience in people's lives, thereby improving well-being.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在面临压力时，人们常常求助于灵性、宗教或与自然世界的互动来应对。这些应对方法可能有好处，例如宗教仪式期间的社会支持或在森林徒步旅行时的放松。然而，这些应对策略也有一个未经研究的因素，可能会影响人们应对压力的能力：敬畏的体验。敬畏是一种情感，来自于面对如此巨大或巨大的事物，以至于很难理解它。一个例子就是沉浸在宏伟的自然场景中。该项目旨在了解敬畏何时以及为何可以帮助人们更好地应对日常生活中面临的压力情况，例如考试、公开演讲或经历身体不适。了解敬畏在有效应对中的作用有助于识别相对简单的技巧，人们可以使用这些技巧来帮助自己在有压力的情况下应对自如，而不是被压力压垮。这个项目的中心思想是，敬畏让人们感觉自己和他们的担忧与引发敬畏感的任何事物相比都是微不足道的。这种经历的具体性质应该对应对压力产生重要的、可能是矛盾的影响。如果某些令人敬畏的事情相比之下使压力情况显得微不足道，那么这种压力情况应该看起来更容易应对。相反，如果某些令人敬畏的事情使一个人自己的能力显得微不足道，那么压力很大的情况就会显得更难以控制。一组研究评估了人格特征，并通过实验创造了心理状态，这些状态应该使敬畏期间的这些类型的焦点更有可能发生，而不是不太可能发生。将使用多种方法来研究这些影响，包括测量身体反应和行为。这将能够测试敬畏对人们在压力发生时的心理体验以及在面临困难时可能自我毁灭的行为的影响。这项研究的长期目标是更深入地了解敬畏何时以及为何可以帮助人们应对日常压力。了解促进对日常压力源做出积极反应的简单方法可以增强人们生活的适应能力，从而改善福祉。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Facing the Facets: No Association Between Dispositional Mindfulness Facets and Positive Momentary Stress Responses During Active Stressors

• DOI: 10.1177/0146167220956898
• 发表时间: 2020-10
• 期刊: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Thomas L. Saltsman;Mark D. Seery;Deborah E. Ward;Tracy M Radsvick;Zaviera A. Panlilio;Veronica M. Lamarche;Cheryl L. Kondrak