Lifetime trauma, perceived control, and all-cause mortality: Results from the Midlife in the United States Study.

Elliot, Ari J.; Turiano, Nicholas A.; Infurna, Frank J.; Lachman, Margie E.; Chapman, Benjamin P.

doi:10.1037/hea0000585

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“…Field studies have similarly found that among those with high perceived control there is an attenuation of the associations of major stressful life events with negative affect and depressive symptoms e.g., King et al (2015) and Mausbach (2007) ; of the association of lifetime trauma and the inflammatory marker, CRP ( Elliot et al, 2017 ); and the associations between major depression and poorer natural killer cell activity (NKCA) ( Reynaert, 1995 ). In a recent study, Elliot et al (2018) found that perceived control also protected against the increase in allcause mortality associated with a greater number of lifetime traumatic experiences even with adjustments for baseline health status, and psychological, and behavioral covariates.…”

Section: Stress Resilience and Immunity: Association Studiesmentioning

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Resilience and immunity

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Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

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Resilience is the process that allows individuals to adapt to adverse conditions and recover from them. This process is favored by individual qualities that have been amply studied in the field of stress such as personal control, positive affect, optimism, and social support. Biopsychosocial studies on the individual qualities that promote resilience show that these factors help protect against the deleterious influences of stressors on physiology in general and immunity in particular. The reverse is also true as there is evidence that immune processes influence resilience. Most of the data supporting this relationship comes from animal studies on individual differences in the ability to resist situations of chronic stress. These data build on the knowledge that has accumulated on the influence of immune factors on brain and behavior in both animal and human studies. In general, resilient individuals have a different immunophenotype from that of stress susceptible individuals. It is possible to render susceptible individuals resilient and vice versa by changing their inflammatory phenotype. The adaptive immune phenotype also influences the ability to recover from inflammation-induced symptoms. The modulation of these bidirectional relationships between resilience and immunity by the gut microbiota opens the possibility to influence them by probiotics and prebiotics. However, more focused studies on the reciprocal relationship between resilience and immunity will be necessary before this can be put into practice.

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Section: Stress Resilience and Immunity: Association Studiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Resilience and immunity

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Cohen

Russo

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“…Further, longitudinal research on disaster survivors ( Benight and Harper, 2002 ; Bosmans et al, 2013 ), victims of acute physical injuries ( Flatten et al, 2008 ; Bosmans et al, 2015 ), and survivors of motor vehicle accidents ( Benight et al, 2008 ) indicated that CSE is a key mechanism through which initial distress influences subsequent post-traumatic symptoms. Most recently a general sense of mastery, which is another term for general self-efficacy, was found to moderate the effect of trauma on all-cause mortality ( Elliot et al, 2018 ). Collectively, these studies strongly suggest that an individual’s sense of agency (i.e., degree of CSE) plays a pivotal role in trauma recovery.…”

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Self-Regulation Shift Theory: A Dynamic Personal Agency Approach to Recovery Capital and Methodological Suggestions

2018

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Recovery capital highlights person and environmental resources associated with overcoming significant life challenges. This paper utilizes social cognitive theory as a framework for understanding how recovery capital functions in trauma adaptation. This theory outlines the bidirectional, dynamic interactions among person (e.g., cognitive and affective), behavioral (e.g., problem focused coping), and environmental variables (i.e., triadic reciprocal determinism). The value of this approach to understanding human adaptation to trauma is that it targets the self-regulatory processes that unfold for trauma survivors as they attempt to put their lives back together. Self-regulation shift theory (SRST), as an extension to social cognitive theory, is offered to explain how self-regulation is involved in both positive and negative adjustment. The theory uses a dynamical systems approach and highlights the mechanisms related to non-linear shifts in both positive and negative trauma recovery. According to SRST, trauma recovery may not be linear with threshold shifts (i.e., bifurcations) from one organized state (broken self) to another (empowered self). Coping self-efficacy perceptions are a critical factor influencing these threshold shifts. This paper concludes with a brief review of study designs and analytic procedures that can facilitate the application of non-linear dynamic research in this area.

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“…At MIDUS 3, a total of 29 chronic conditions were assessed (which were also assessed at MIDUS 1 and 2); we used participants' summed “yes” responses to this full list of chronic conditions. This morbidity count variable has been validated in multiple studies exploring health outcomes of MIDUS participants (Elliot, Turiano, Infurna, Lachman, & Chapman, 2018; Priest et al, 2019; Woods et al, 2019). The average number of chronic conditions for the present sample was 2.75 ( SD = 2.56).…”

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Family emotional climate and health: Testing conveyance of effects via psychobiological mediators

Woods

Roberson

Priest

2020

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Using the Biobehavioral Family Model and data from five Midlife in the United States projects (N = 793), this study tests whether allostatic load and negative affect reactivity convey the effects of categorizations of family emotional climate on health appraisal and morbidity (chronic conditions) across 20 years. Results indicated that negative family emotional climate (high strain, low support/parental affection) was indirectly associated with health appraisal 20 years later via negative affect reactivity at 10 years. Ambivalent family emotional climate (high strain/support) was directly associated with greater morbidity. Allostatic load did not serve as a significant mediator in the models tested. Findings suggest that family emotional climates marked by strain and intensity may be especially problematic for health, partly by exacerbating negative affect reactivity. K E Y W O R D S daily diary methods, families, health, psychophysiology 1 | INTRODUCTION Overwhelming evidence has established that close relationships impact health. Among types of close relationships, family relationships have the strongest effects. Family members provide greater emotional support than friends and nonrelatives (Shor & Roelfs,

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Lifetime trauma, perceived control, and all-cause mortality: Results from the Midlife in the United States Study.

Cited by 44 publications

References 67 publications

Resilience and immunity

Resilience and immunity

Self-Regulation Shift Theory: A Dynamic Personal Agency Approach to Recovery Capital and Methodological Suggestions

Family emotional climate and health: Testing conveyance of effects via psychobiological mediators

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