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. 2022 Dec;29(6):796-806.
doi: 10.1007/s12529-022-10061-1. Epub 2022 Mar 4.

Associations Between Outcome Resilience and Sociodemographic Factors, Childhood Trauma, Personality Dimensions and Self-Rated Health in Middle-Aged Adults

Patrick Linnemann  1 , Klaus Berger  2 , Henning Teismann  2
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Associations Between Outcome Resilience and Sociodemographic Factors, Childhood Trauma, Personality Dimensions and Self-Rated Health in Middle-Aged Adults

Patrick Linnemann et al. Int J Behav Med. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

Background: We examined how sociodemographic factors, childhood trauma, personality dimensions, and self-rated health were associated with outcome resilience and how different stressors influenced depressive symptoms.

Methods: An outcome resilience score for 213 adults was derived by means of a residualization approach. Associations between outcome resilience and sociodemographic and personality factors were evaluated using linear regression. In addition, associations between log-transformed depressive symptoms and the stressors were analyzed using multiple linear regression. A Pearson correlation coefficient between self-rated health and outcome resilience was also computed.

Results: Higher neuroticism was negatively and higher conscientiousness was positively associated with outcome resilience. Better self-rated health was associated with higher outcome resilience. Somatic disease events and onset of chronic mental disorders were associated with more depressive symptoms.

Conclusions: Outcome resilience was significantly related to neuroticism, conscientiousness, and self-rated health. Strong associations between depressive symptoms and the stressors somatic disease event, and chronic mental disorder were observed.

Keywords: Depressive symptoms; Outcome resilience; Personality dimensions; Residualization; Stressor.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Associations of neuroticism and conscientiousness with outcome resilience (SR score), in each case adjusted for the other predictors in the model. A positive resilience score means here that a person is less resilient and vice versa. Points denote partial residuals. Gray lines denote linear trends. Gray shades denote 95% confidence intervals of the linear trends
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