Bringing a Neurobiological Perspective to Resilience

Bush, Nicole R.; Roubinov, Danielle S.

doi:10.1093/oso/9780190095888.003.0003

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“…Recent reviews call for measurement of multiple measures of children's biological functioning to best capture positive or negative child adjustment in the context of risk (Bush & Roubinov, 2021;Masten et al, 2021). The current study found significant associations among cardiometabolic risk indicators as early as preschool, corresponding with empirical work among older adolescents and adults highlighting cardiometabolic systemic dysfunction across multiple indicators (King et al, 2019;McCaffery et al, 2012;Torrance et al, 2007;Vale et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 64%

Multilevel prenatal socioeconomic predictors of Mexican American children’s cardiometabolic health in preschool and school age.

Curci,

Luecken,

Hernández

et al. 2023

Health Psychology

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Objective: Using a life course perspective, this longitudinal study examines the extent to which prenatal family-and neighborhood-level socioeconomic factors influence the cardiometabolic health of low-income Mexican American children. It was hypothesized that prenatal maternal residence in a more economically disadvantaged neighborhood and more family-level economic hardship would each be associated with higher adiposity and blood pressure (BP) at child age 4.5 years, and higher adiposity, BP, inflammation and a less healthy lipid profile at child age 7.5 years. Method: The sample consisted of 322 low-income, Mexican American mother-child dyads, 181 of whom completed the 7.5-year laboratory visit. Using maternal prenatal residence and U.S. census data, neighborhood concentrated disadvantage index was computed. Results: Higher prenatal neighborhood concentrated disadvantage predicted higher 4.5-year adiposity in children, which, in turn, predicted higher adiposity, BP, and inflammation, and less healthy lipid profile (higher triglycerides, lower high-density lipoprotein cholesterol) at 7.5 years. Higher child 4.5-year BP was concurrently associated with higher adiposity and predicted higher 7.5-year BP. Conclusions: Extending previous work with this sample, the current study found associations between cardiometabolic risk indicators as early as preschool among Mexican American children. Furthermore, this study builds on existing literature by expanding our understanding of the effect of prenatal neighborhood concentrated disadvantage on cardiometabolic phenotypes during early childhood. Public Significance StatementPrenatal residence in neighborhoods marked by high levels of concentrated socioeconomic disadvantage may place low-income, Mexican American children at elevated risk for cardiometabolic dysfunction across the first few years of life. Early detection and prevention of cardiometabolic dysfunction in early childhood may have cascading effects for children's subsequent health.

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confidence: 64%

Multilevel prenatal socioeconomic predictors of Mexican American children’s cardiometabolic health in preschool and school age.

Curci,

Luecken,

Hernández

et al. 2023

Health Psychology

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“…While these processes may have been spoken about by participants at the individual level, with some participants explicitly suggesting that they made a choice to maintain their well-being, many also identified the value of their surrounding environment in supporting or inhibiting their resilience. These COR narratives emphasized the importance of navigating toward supportive resources and revealed the “role of micro and macrolevel factors in culture and society, in addition to individual agency, in different constellations that contribute to the chances for resilience (Ungar, 2011)” (Bush & Roubinov, 2021, p. 36). Participants identified the role of supportive family and access to mental health services as elements of the environment that contributed to their sustained well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to the absence of sustained negative outcomes, some individuals may experience improved psychological health or functioning postexposure to PPTE (Bush & Roubinov, 2021). This process of posttraumatic growth reflects an individual’s ability to experience positive psychological change that surpasses their preexposure adaptation (i.e., identify benefits, lessons, or gains) in the face of PPTEs (Calhoun & Tedeschi, 2001; Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004).…”

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Tough lessons: Pathways toward correctional officer resilience and growth.

Konyk¹,

Ricciardelli²

2023

Traumatology

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Research examining the well-being of correctional officers (COs) has primarily focused on their exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTE) and the presence of mental health disorders once employed. Absent is an understanding of the mental health of COs and their exposures to PPTEs before entering the federal CO occupation. In the current article, we qualitatively examine how themes of resilience and posttraumatic growth emerge in correctional officer recruit narratives of overcoming their past experiences with PPTE exposures. Drawing from interview data, we analyzed the descriptions of PPTEs from 100 correctional officer recruits, focusing on experiences of coping with PPTEs and shedding light on their descriptions of resiliency and posttraumatic growth. Of our 100 participants, 86 reported prior exposure to a PPTE. Analyses of semistructured interviews reveal engagement in processes such as distancing, relationality, and vulnerability. We discuss how such processes may serve as strategies for resilience that can help COs, who work in carceral environments, cope with PPTEs and maintain or regain well-being.

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“…The term resilience refers to the capacity of a dynamic system to withstand or recover from significant disturbances that threaten its adaptive function, variability or development [6]. In relation to mood and its interaction with the environment, mood resilience could be viewed as the ability of mood to resist the effects of exposure to adverse stimuli or bounce back from states provoked by such an exposure [7]. For the purposes of our study, and concerning resilience, we focus on the first component of the definition and explore whether mood could be trained to resist the effects of exposure to negative stimuli.…”

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An experimental approach to training mood for resilience

Mantas,

Kotoula,

Zheng

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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According to influential theories about mood, exposure to environments characterized by specific patterns of punishments and rewards could shape mood response to future stimuli. This raises the intriguing possibility that mood could be trained by exposure to controlled environments. The aim of the present study is to investigate experimental settings that increase resilience of mood to negative stimuli. For this study, a new task was developed where participants register their mood when rewards are added or subtracted from their score. The study was conducted online, using Amazon MTurk, and a total of N = 1287 participants were recruited for all three sets of experiments. In an exploratory experiment, sixteen different experimental task environments which are characterized by different mood-reward relationships, were tested. We identified six task environments that produce the greatest improvements in mood resilience to negative stimuli, as measured by decreased sensitivity to loss. In a next step, we isolated the two most effective task environments, from the previous set of experiments, and we replicated our results and tested mood’s resilience to negative stimuli over time, in a novel sample. We found that the effects of the task environments on mood are detectable and remain significant after multiple task rounds (approximately two minutes) for an environment where good mood yielded maximum reward. These findings are a first step in our effort to better understand the mechanisms behind mood training and its potential clinical utility.

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Bringing a Neurobiological Perspective to Resilience

Cited by 7 publications

References 99 publications

Multilevel prenatal socioeconomic predictors of Mexican American children’s cardiometabolic health in preschool and school age.

Multilevel prenatal socioeconomic predictors of Mexican American children’s cardiometabolic health in preschool and school age.

Tough lessons: Pathways toward correctional officer resilience and growth.

An experimental approach to training mood for resilience

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