Digital Stress Induction in Daily Life Using the Salzburg Mobile Stress Induction (SMSI): Development and Ambulatory Evaluation Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The use of digital technology enabled examining stress in everyday life. However, ambulatory research depends on the natural occurrence of stressful situations while most standardized stress inductions rely on cost- and labor-expensive laboratory experiments, which are limited in their infrequent applicability.

Objective

We developed the Salzburg Mobile Stress Induction (SMSI), a newly conceptualized toolbox including 6 different stress-inducing paradigms (Matrices test, Cube Net test, Arithmetic test, Number Series test, Word Scramble test, and Word Pair test) and 1 control paradigm (Caesar Cipher test), which are based on cognitive performance tests. These 7 tests aim to provide researchers with an open-access, standardized method to repeatedly induce stress in

SUBMITTER: Vikoler T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491893 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature