Unraveling Resilience: Personality Predicts Exposure and Reaction to Stressful Life Events

Abstract: Resilience is a key construct in psychology, which describes the maintenance of comparatively good mental health despite of environmental adversities or successful recovery from such adversities. Furthermore, it labels a specific personality type, characterized by high levels across the Big Five. However, whether the resilient type predicts less unfavorable mental health changes around environmental adversities remains unresolved. In a nationally representative sample from the Netherlands (LISS panel, N = 12,551), we longitudinally examined whether changes of internalizing symptoms around four stressful life events (unemployment, disability, divorce, and widowhood) differed between resilients and non-resilients. Internalizing symptoms increased before but decreased after each event, indicating recovery. Compared to non-resilients, resilients experienced a weaker symptom increase before the onset of unemployment and a stronger symptom rebound after the onset of disability. Thus, res.... https://ps.psychopen.eu/index.php/ps/article/view/6055

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Unraveling Resilience: Personality Predicts Exposure and Reaction to Stressful Life Events ; volume:2 ; number:1 ; day:04 ; month:11 ; year:2021 ; Personality science ; 2, Heft 1 (04.11.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Asselmann, Eva ; Klimstra, Theo A. ; Denissen, Jaap J. A.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ps.6055
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021112704104019219610
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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