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Impact of Select Cognitive Distortions on Emotional Stress

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Stress has been recognized as an important factor affecting health, productivity, interpersonal relations, and accidents. Mitigation of stress, therefore, has been a considerable research area across the world. There are several factors that lead to stress and a major one being the cognitive distortions. The cognitive model explains that we as individuals are presented with negative, positive, and neutral events, which are interpreted with a chain of thoughts, resulting in distinct feelings and moods. This work is focused on exploring the relationship between select cognitive distortions and stress in a college setting. Partly modified scales of cognitive distortions (Roberts, M. B) and emotional stress (Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS)) have been used for the survey. Results indicate that there is a moderate correlation between the cognitive distortions and emotional stress. Results may be useful to mitigate the negative consequences of emotional stress born of cognitive distortions. It is implied that teachers recognize the suffering of general students in this respect and must adapt useful techniques to help the students.

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Jha, A. et al. (2022). Impact of Select Cognitive Distortions on Emotional Stress. In: Samanta, S.R., Mallick, P.K., Pattnaik, P.K., Mohanty, J.R., Polkowski, Z. (eds) Cognitive Computing for Risk Management. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74517-2_2

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