American researchers present this Wednesday in the journal
Nature
a strategy to fight against school stress in adolescents.
The therapy that these psychologists from the University of Texas (Austin) have developed could, according to them, be deployed as a prevention tool on a large scale and at a lower cost.
It consists of a thirty-minute training module, to be followed online.
Experimented with 4,200 young people aged 13 to 22 in different contexts, the intervention improved
“their psychological well-being, their academic success and their symptoms of anxiety during the spring 2020 confinement linked to Covid-19 write
the researchers.
According to David Yeager, developmental psychologist and lead author of the study,
"experiences in which adolescents fear being judged negatively, such as exams or public speaking, can have a very negative impact on their mental health
.
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