ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2016
Early-life predictors of resilience and related outcomes up to 66 years later in the 6-day sample of the 1947 Scottish mental survey.
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- Psychological Resilience and Cognitive Functioning in Black and White Men and Women.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Editorial: Chronic effects on brain development induced by early-life stress.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Predictable maternal separation confers adult stress resilience via the medial prefrontal cortex oxytocin signaling pathway in rats.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Article
- A Developmental Framework for Embodiment Research: The Next Step Toward Integrating Concepts and Methods.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Review
- General psychopathology links burden of recent life events and psychotic symptoms in a network approach.NPJ schizophrenia · 2020Article
- Associations between Brief Resilience Scale scores and ageing-related domains in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.Psychology and aging · 2020Article
- Towards a Transversal Definition of Psychological Resilience: A Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Review
- Impact of resilience on health in older adults: a cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study (IMIAS).BMJ open · 2018Article
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purposePsychological resilience, the ability to manage and quickly recover from stress and trauma, is associated with a range of health and wellbeing outcomes. Resilience is known to relate to personality, self-esteem and positive affect, and may also depend upon childhood experience and stress. In this study, we investigated the role of early-life contributors to resilience and related factors in later life.
methodsWe used data from the 6-day sample of the Scottish mental survey 1947, an initially representative sample of Scottish children born in 1936. They were assessed on a range of factors between the ages of 11 and 27 years, and resilience and other outcomes at 77 years.
resultsHigher adolescent dependability unexpectedly predicted lower resilience in older-age, as did childhood illnesses, while a count of specific stressors experienced throughout early life significantly predicted higher later-life resilience. We also observed significant cross-sectional correlations between resilience and measures of physical health, mental health, wellbeing and loneliness. Some of the associations between early-life predictors and later-life outcomes were significantly mediated by resilience.
conclusionsOur results support the hypothesis that stress throughout early life may help to build resilience in later-life, and demonstrate the importance of resilience as a mediator of other influences on health and wellbeing in older age. We suggest that the mechanisms determining how early-life stress leads to higher resilience are worthy of further investigation, and that psychological resilience should be a focus of research and a target for therapeutic interventions aiming to improve older-age health and wellbeing.
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