Psycho-social factors associated with mental resilience in the Corona lockdown
Creators: name: Veer, Ilya M.
name: Riepenhausen, Antje
name: Zerban, Matthias
name: Wackerhagen, Carolin
name: Puhlmann, Lara M. C.
name: Engen, Haakon
name: Köber, Göran
name: Bögemann, Sophie A.
name: Weermeijer, Jeroen
name: Uściłko, Aleksandra
name: Mor, Netali
name: Marciniak, Marta A.
name: Askelund, Adrian Dahl
name: Al-Kamel, Abbas
name: Ayash, Sarah
name: Barsuola, Giulia
name: Bartkute-Norkuniene, Vaida
name: Battaglia, Simone
name: Bobko, Yaryna
name: Bölte, Sven
name: Cardone, Paolo
name: Chvojková, Edita
name: Damnjanović, Kaja
name: De Calheiros Velozo, Joana
name: De Thurah, Lena
name: Deza-Araujo, Yacila I.
name: Dimitrov, Annika
name: Farkas, Kinga
name: Feller, Clémence
name: Gazea, Mary
name: Gilan, Donya
name: Gnjidić, Vedrana
name: Hajduk, Michal
name: Hiekkaranta, Anu P.
name: Hofgaard, Live S.
name: Ilen, Laura
name: Kasanova, Zuzana
name: Khanpour, Mohsen
name: Lau, Bobo Hi Po
name: Lenferink, Dionne B.
name: Lindhardt, Thomas B.
name: Magas, Dávid Á.
name: Mituniewicz, Julian
name: Moreno-López, Laura
name: Muzychka, Sofiia
name: Ntafouli, Maria
name: O’Leary, Aet
name: Paparella, Ilenia
name: Põldver, Nele
name: Rintala, Aki
name: Robak, Natalia
name: Rosická, Anna M.
name: Røysamb, Espen
name: Sadeghi, Siavash
name: Schneider, Maude
name: Siugzdaite, Roma
name: Stantić, Mirta
name: Teixeira, Ana
name: Todorovic, Ana
name: Wan, Wendy W. N.
name: Van Dick, Rolf
name: Lieb, Klaus
name: Kleim, Birgit
name: Hermans, Erno J.
name: Kobylińska, Dorota
name: Hendler, Talma
name: Binder, Harald
name: Myin-Germeys, Inez
name: Van Leeuwen, Judith M. C.
name: Tüscher, Oliver
name: Yuen, Kenneth S. L.
name: Walter, Henrik
name: Kalisch, Raffael
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
/631/477/2811
/692/53/2421
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description: Funder: State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (MARP program, DRZ program, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research)
description: Abstract: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is not only a threat to physical health but is also having severe impacts on mental health. Although increases in stress-related symptomatology and other adverse psycho-social outcomes, as well as their most important risk factors have been described, hardly anything is known about potential protective factors. Resilience refers to the maintenance of mental health despite adversity. To gain mechanistic insights about the relationship between described psycho-social resilience factors and resilience specifically in the current crisis, we assessed resilience factors, exposure to Corona crisis-specific and general stressors, as well as internalizing symptoms in a cross-sectional online survey conducted in 24 languages during the most intense phase of the lockdown in Europe (22 March to 19 April) in a convenience sample of N = 15,970 adults. Resilience, as an outcome, was conceptualized as good mental health despite stressor exposure and measured as the inverse residual between actual and predicted symptom total score. Preregistered hypotheses (osf.io/r6btn) were tested with multiple regression models and mediation analyses. Results confirmed our primary hypothesis that positive appraisal style (PAS) is positively associated with resilience (p &lt; 0.0001). The resilience factor PAS also partly mediated the positive association between perceived social support and resilience, and its association with resilience was in turn partly mediated by the ability to easily recover from stress (both p &lt; 0.0001). In comparison with other resilience factors, good stress response recovery and positive appraisal specifically of the consequences of the Corona crisis were the strongest factors. Preregistered exploratory subgroup analyses (osf.io/thka9) showed that all tested resilience factors generalize across major socio-demographic categories. This research identifies modifiable protective factors that can be targeted by public mental health efforts in this and in future pandemics.