Towards a comprehensive theory of stress in a daily life contextTowards a comprehensive theory of stress in a daily life context
Research Theme 1 (RT1) focuses on the Theory of Stress. The primary objectives of RT1 are to
1) develop a comprehensive evidence-based theory of daily-life stress responses,
2) determine the key contextual factors in the aetiology of daily-life stress responses, and
3) test how these stress responses are moderated by evoking/buffering environmental factors and person-specific vulnerability and resilience characteristics.
Further, RT1 will develop a nomenclature of stress and will build the foundation for a common language and understanding of the stress concepts in the consortium.
During 2024, we worked on four reviews. The reviews concern: 1) an umbrella review on theories, hypotheses, and models describing the relationship between stress exposures, stress responses and psychopathology, 2 and 3) systematic reviews of original longitudinal studies on stress and psychopathology / cardiovascular diseases, and 4) a systematic review of the conceptualization, classification and contextualization of modern daily-life stressors. We continued with the development of an (online) Stress wiki and Stress database, both envisioned to grow into (public) platforms for collaboration and knowledge sharing. Moreover, we started a representative population-based survey to explore the ‘meaning of stress’ in society.
At University of Groningen, our colleagues made a short video about Stress in Action and the research we are doing in Research Theme 1. You can watch it here or on Youtube.
A key milestone in 2024 was our interactive SiA RT1 symposium in October 2024 with four distinguished invited speakers; dr. Markus Eronen, prof. dr. Matijn van Zomeren, prof. dr. Laura Batstra and prof. dr. Jan-Willem Romeijn. We shared the insights from this symposium with the entire SiA consortium during the consortium meeting in November 2024.
RT1 collaborates continuously and intensively with the DASC, e.g. joint participation in the EMA Toolkit taskforce. We are engaged in projects and exchange with RT2 and RT3 on context sensing and moderation of stress effects on health.
In 2025, we will recruit two new postdoctoral researchers, and four new PhD students. We will focus on the completion of the reviews, the SiA manifesto, the symposium synthesis, the initiated empirical research activities, and the dissemination of results in national and international conferences.
RT1 members: Fridtjof Petersen, Yong Zhang, Iris Arends, Malin Meyer, Ute Bültmann, Bertus Jeronimus, Laura Bringmann, Peter de Jonge, Solomiia Myroniuk and Nan Zhao.
