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Stress arousal reappraisal and stress mindset interventions aim to change people’s appraisal of and belief about their stress responses to active tasks with the ultimate goal of improving cognitive, emotional, physiological, and behavioral outcomes, including task performance. While these interventions are applied in various domains (e.g., academic, sport), they sometimes lead to contradictory results in regard to task performance. The goal of this meta-analysis is to evaluate if and to what degree stress arousal reappraisal and stress mindset interventions affect task performance outcomes.

This is the Final Report of a research project carried out between June 1, 1975 and March 31, 1980. The research dealt with the relationships of individual differences, experimental conditions, and training in stress-coping skills to performance. Fourteen Technical Reports and several articles resulted from the project. (Author)