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Post-hypnotic safety suggestion improves stress coping with long-lasting effects
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Effective coping with acute stress is important to promote mental health and to build stress resilience. Interventions improving stress coping usually require long training periods. In this study, we present a hypnosis-based intervention that produces long-term effects after a single hypnosis session. In that session, we established a post-hypnotic safety suggestion that participants can activate afterwards with a cue. We tested 60 participants in our study who all received the hypnosis session and a stress task. The safety group used the post-hypnotic safety cue during acute stress (Trier Social Stress Test, TSST). The control group used a neutral trigger instead. We measured subjective stress responses via self-reports and physiological stress responses via saliva and blood samples as well as heart rate. One week later, all participants filled in an online survey to measure long-term effects of the post-hypnotic safety suggestion. We found that participants using the post-hypnotic safety cue during the TSST reported significantly lower stress and anxiety compared to the control group. The safety group also reported significantly fewer negative thoughts concerning their TSST performance than the control group during the stress recovery phase and one week later. All participants indicated that the post-hypnotic safety suggestion still worked one week after its establishment. Suggestibility did not affect the efficacy of the post-hypnotic safety suggestion. Our findings demonstrate that post-hypnotic safety suggestions improve stress coping with long-lasting effects, which makes it a promising intervention to promote mental health and establish stress resilience in just one hypnosis session.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schmidt, B., Rohleder, N., & Engert, V.
- Affiliations
- Jena University Hospital (DE)
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Schmidt, Barbara
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Publisher
- Research Square Platform LLC
- Published
- 2023-07-05
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3548-3548
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10861489
- OpenAlex
- W4391743631
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4
- FWCI
- 2.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SCHM 3129/5-1)
- Universitätsklinikum Jena
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Keywords
- hypnosis, stress coping, acute stress, Trier Social Stress Test, stress resilience, long-term effects, physiological stress response, heart rate, negative thinking, suggestibility, mental health interventions
- MeSH terms
- Coping Skills, Humans, Hypnosis, Surveys and Questionnaires, Suggestion, Self Report
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