The effects of challenge and threat states on performance outcomes: An updated review and meta-analysis of recent findings.

ABSTRACT: The biopsychosocial model (BPSM) of challenge and threat provides a framework for understanding stress responses in motivated performance situations, including how stress relates to performance. In this model, experiences of challenge - characterized by evaluations of personal coping resources matching or exceeding situational demands - elicit approach-oriented patterns of physiological responding and tend to facilitate performance, whereas threat - characterized by demands exceeding resources - elicit avoidance-oriented patterns of physiological responding and tend to impair performance. Extant systematic reviews and meta-analyses support the idea that challenge facilitates performance relative to threat (Behnke and Kaczmarek, 2018[8]; Hase et al., 2019[50]). The present systematic review

SUBMITTER: Hase A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11869992 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature