Investigating the Protective Role of Mastery Imagery Ability in Buffering Debilitative Stress Responses.

ABSTRACT: Mastery imagery has been shown to be associated with more positive cognitive and emotional responses to stress, but research is yet to investigate the influence of mastery imagery ability on imagery's effectiveness in regulating responses to acute stress, such as competition. Furthermore, little research has examined imagery's effectiveness in response to actual competition. This study examined (a) whether mastery imagery ability was associated with stress response changes to a competitive stress task, a car racing computer game, following an imagery intervention, and (b) the effects of different guided imagery content on pre-task cognitive and emotional responses. In Session 1, 78 participants (M age = 20.03 years, SD = 1.28) completed ratings of pre-task anxiety intensity a

SUBMITTER: Quinton ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6668598 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature