ArticleNeural plasticity2014
Tinnitus-related distress and the personality characteristic resilience.
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- The Relationship of Tinnitus Distress With Personality Traits: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Pooled it
- The Association Between Resilience and Mental Health in the Somatically Ill.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2018Pooled it
- Psychosocial Work Stress, Resilience and the Risk of Tinnitus-Results from a Population-Based Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Observational
- Mourning for Silence: Bereavement and Tinnitus-A Perspective.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Validation of the Sinhala Version of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory.Journal of audiology & otology · 2023Article
- Too Blind to See the Elephant? Why Neuroscientists Ought to Be Interested in Tinnitus.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2021Review
- The evaluation of global cognitive and emotional status of older patients with chronic tinnitus.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- Differences in Clinical Characteristics and Brain Activity between Patients with Low- and High-Frequency Tinnitus.Neural plasticity · 2020Article
- From Acute to Chronic Tinnitus: Pilot Data on Predictors and Progression.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- Personality Traits, Perceived Stress, and Tinnitus-Related Distress in Patients With Chronic Tinnitus: Support for a Vulnerability-Stress Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- One-Year Results for Patients with Unilateral Hearing Loss and Accompanying Severe Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Treated with a Cochlear Implant.Audiology & neuro-otology · 2018Article
- The role of questioning environment, personality traits, depressive and anxiety symptoms in tinnitus severity perception.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2017Article
- Emotional states as mediators between tinnitus loudness and tinnitus distress in daily life: Results from the "TrackYourTinnitus" application.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
It has been suggested that personality traits may be prognostic for the severity of suffering from tinnitus. Resilience as measured with the Wagnild and Young resilience scale represents a positive personality characteristic that promotes adaptation to adverse life conditions including chronic health conditions. Aim of the study was to explore the relation between resilience and tinnitus severity. In a cross-sectional study with a self-report questionnaire, information on tinnitus-related distress and subjective tinnitus loudness was recorded together with the personality characteristic resilience and emotional health, a measure generated from depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity scales. Data from 4705 individuals with tinnitus indicate that tinnitus-related distress and to a lesser extent the experienced loudness of the tinnitus show an inverse correlation with resilience. A mediation analysis revealed that the relationship between resilience and tinnitus-related distress is mediated by emotional health. This indirect effect indicates that high resilience is associated with better emotional health or less depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity, which in turn is associated with a less distressing tinnitus. Validity of resilience as a predictor for tinnitus-related distress is supported but needs to be explored further in longitudinal studies including acute tinnitus patients.
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