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- Title
Resilience to Interpersonal Trauma and Decreased Risk for Psychopathology in an Epidemiologic Sample.
- Authors
Overstreet, Cassie; Stratton, Kelcey; Berenz, Erin; Sheerin, Christina; Hawn, Sage; Roberson-Nay, Roxann; Amstadter, Ananda
- Abstract
Quantitative measures of psychological resilience related to discrete stressors, such as interpersonal (IP) trauma, are lacking. The current study examined whether a novel, quantitative measure of resilience was related to decreased risk for a broad range of lifetime DSM-IV axis I disorders in an epidemiologic sample. Resilience was defined as the residual resulting from the difference between the individual's predicted and observed PTSD symptom count, based on their cumulative exposure to IP traumatic events. Participants were 6288 adults (59.5% women; M = 46.9, SD = 14.5) from the National Epidemiologic Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions endorsing at least one lifetime IP traumatic event. Logistic regressions were conducted to examine the relationship between resilience and axis I diagnoses, covarying for age, sex, education level, social support, and recent stressful life events. Greater resilience scores were associated with decreased likelihood of major depression ( OR = .64, p < .001), generalized anxiety disorder ( OR = .65, p < .001), social anxiety disorder ( OR = .74, p < .001), panic disorder ( OR = .65, p <. 001), and alcohol dependence ( OR = .85, p < .001). Discrepancy between expected and observed PTSD symptom severity based on IP trauma load may represent a useful, quantitative measure of resilience.
- Subjects
ALCOHOLISM risk factors; MENTAL depression risk factors; ANXIETY disorders; PANIC disorders; SOCIAL anxiety; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL research; INTERVIEWING; POST-traumatic stress disorder; PROBABILITY theory; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; LOGISTIC regression analysis; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; MENTAL illness risk factors
- Publication
Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment, 2017, Vol 39, Issue 3, p506
- ISSN
0882-2689
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10862-017-9601-2