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. 2025 May;22(5):542-551.
doi: 10.30773/pi.2024.0319. Epub 2025 May 15.

Development and Validation of an Online Intervention Program to Augment Psychological Resilience: A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial

Sang Won Lee  1   2 , Jihyun Nam  3
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Development and Validation of an Online Intervention Program to Augment Psychological Resilience: A Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial

Sang Won Lee et al. Psychiatry Investig. 2025 May.

Abstract

Objective: Resilience is the ability to bounce back from stressful events using individual and environmental resources. The online intervention program, MoVemEnT, which includes mindfulness training and emotion regulation, was developed to enhance resilience among young adults.

Methods: Persons without current medical or psychiatric diseases, aged 20-40 years, were recruited. Ninety-six participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention group or a waiting list control (WLC) group, with 45 participants per group completing the program.

Results: Results demonstrated significant improvements in the intervention group in measures of emotion regulation (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, DERS) and clinical symptoms of depression (Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale, CES-D) and anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7) compared to the WLC group (all p<0.05). Correlation analyses indicated that improvements in DERS scores were associated with enhanced resilience, as measured by the Korean Resilience Quotient-53 (KRQ-53) and reduced CES-D scores. Reduction in DERS scores can reduce depressive symptoms (CES-D) through direct and indirect pathways via an increase in KRQ-53, according to mediation analyses.

Conclusion: Our findings reported positive effects of the MoVemEnT program, which includes short videos and brief homework assignments, on resilience in young adults. This study suggests that online intervention programs could offer an opportunity to simultaneously improve general mental health among a large population and may help reduce the burden of face-to-face psychological interventions.

Keywords: Depression; Emotion regulation; Online intervention; Resilience.

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The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Structure of the MoVemEnt program.
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