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ArticleCommunications psychology2024

A systematic review of individual, social, and societal resilience factors in response to societal challenges and crises.

Sarah K Schäfer, Max Supke, Corinna Kausmann, Lea M Schaubruch, Klaus Lieb, Caroline Cohrdes

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Article in Communications psychology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Sarah K SchäferLeibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany. sarah.schaefer@lir-mainz.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9885-3252
Max SupkeLeibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.
Corinna KausmannDepartment of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Lea M SchaubruchLeibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.
Klaus LiebLeibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.
Caroline CohrdesDepartment of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0063-4145

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Societal challenges put public mental health at risk and result in a growing interest in resilience as trajectories of good mental health during stressor exposure. Resilience factors represent multilevel psychosocial resources that increase the likelihood of resilient responses. This preregistered systematic review aims at summarizing evidence on the predictive value of individual, social and societal resilience factors for resilient responses to societal challenges and crises. Eligible studies examined the predictive value of resilience factors in stressor-exposed populations in high-income countries by means of multinomial regression models based on growth mixture modeling. Five databases were searched until August 2, 2023. Data synthesis employed a rating scheme to assess the incremental predictive value of resilience factors beyond sociodemographic variables and other resilience factors. An adapted version of the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale was used for risk of bias assessment. Fifty studies (sample sizes: 360-65,818 participants) with moderate study quality reported on various stressors (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters, terrorist attacks). Higher income, socioeconomic status and perceived social support, better emotion regulation and psychological flexibility were related to more resilient responses. The association between resilience factors and resilient responses was stronger in samples with younger mean age and a larger proportion of women. Most studies used non-representative convenience samples and effects were smaller when accounting for sociodemographic variables and other resilience factors. For many factors, findings were mixed, supporting the importance of the fit between resilience factors and situational demands. Research into social and societal resilience factors and multilevel resilience interventions is needed. Preregistration-ID: 10.17605/OSF.IO/GWJVA. Funding source: Robert Koch Institute (ID: LIR_2023_01).

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