Do your friends stress you out? A field study of the spread of stress through a community network
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shihan Li (0000-0003-2566-5917, Carnegie Mellon University), D Krackhardt (0000-0001-9487-9973, Carnegie Mellon University), Nynke M D Niezink (0000-0003-4199-4841, Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-116 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspi0000415 |
| PMID | 36633994 |
| OpenAlex | W4315754290 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In this study, we seek to understand how stress changes in dynamic social systems. Where prior work on the interpersonal transmission of stress focused on pairs of individuals and small groups, we adopt a network perspective to investigate how the distribution of stress in an individual's social environment influences their stress appraisal process. We conducted a 6-month longitudinal study of 315 early to midcareer adults in professional master's programs as they encountered the stress of everyday academic life. We follow the dynamics of the participants' networks and their concomitant stress at four key time points during those 6 months. We find that the perceived stress of one's social contacts affects their experience of stress in this setting. Yet, not everyone is equally susceptible to this social influence. In particular, we find that social influence is substantially amplified under conditions of relative consensus among one's social contacts. Also, a low level of neuroticism, a high level of conscientiousness, and a high level of internal control orientation help buffer the transmission of stress. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Big Five personality traits · Conscientiousness · Developmental psychology · Extraversion and introversion · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal relationship · Neuroticism · Personality · Perspective (graphical) · PsycINFO · Social stress · Social support · Stress (linguistics) · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |