Resilience and related factors during female Ecuadorian mid-life

Chedraui, Peter; Pérez‐López, Faustino R.; Schwager, Gino; Sánchez, Hugo; Aguirre, Wellington; Martínez, Nalo; Miranda, Octavio; Plaza, María S.; Astudillo, Cesar; Narváez, Jorge; Quintero, Juan C.; Zambrano, Branly

doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2012.03.004

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“…It is important to stress out the fact that few studies have analyzed RE among mid-aged women, relating RE to the severity of menopausal complaints; our data confirms that of others (13,14).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…The WYRS-14, used to measure RE in our study, has reported high measures of consistency and correlation with life satisfaction scales (19,23), and has been validated in other studies demonstrating good internal consistency and allowing the analysis of factors related to RE during the menopausal transition (13,14,24). The total median WYRS score (79; IQR: 20.0) in the present study was similar to the previously reported among Spanish population from the Asturias Region (median 79, IQR: 17.0), but lower than that found in Ecuadorian midaged women (86; IQR: 16.0).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…The discrepancy observed between these populations is likely to be due to cultural and social differences. In fact, to highlight this, in postmenopausal Spanish women living in the Asturias region lower RE was associated to depression and regular exercise to higher RE (14); otherwise, in Ecuadorian mid-aged women, higher RE was related to parity and being sexually active and lower RE was related to high altitude residency, severe hot flushes, sedentarism, and abdominal obesity (13). We found no factors directly associated with higher RE in our series except for moderate alcohol consumption which showed to be a protective factor of low RE.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Mid-aged women may live a long process of biological, psychological and social adaptations which may be associated with negative feelings, depressive mood, lack of healthiness, economical problems, loneliness, low life satisfaction and a lack of social support (9,10,11,12). Hence, it seems that women with high RE could better cope with adversity and have fewer menopausal complaints suggesting that lower RE would relate to more severe menopausal symptom (13,14). Nevertheless, available evidence related to RE in mid-aged women is scarce.…”

Section: Resilience (Re) Is a Dynamic Process That Implies A Positivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…lower scores indicate lower RE and vice versa (21,22). However, for the purpose of this research, the 25th percentile of the achieved total WYRS-14 score (< 68 points) was used as a cut-off value to define low RE.…”

Section: The 14-item Wagnild and Young Scale (Wyrs-14)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychosocial factors promoting resilience during the menopausal transition

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Despite significant biological, psychological, and social challenges in the perimenopause, most women report an overall positive well-being and appear to be resilient to potentially negative effects of this life phase. The objective of this study was to detect psychosocial variables which contribute to resilience in a sample of perimenopausal women. A total of 135 healthy perimenopausal women aged 40–56 years completed a battery of validated psychosocial questionnaires including variables related to resilience, well-being, and mental health. First, using exploratory factor analysis, we examined which of the assessed variables related to resilience can be assigned to a common factor. Second, linear regression analyses were performed to investigate whether a common resilience factor predicts well-being and mental health in the examined sample of women. Optimism (LOT-R-O), emotional stability (BFI-K-N), emotion regulation (ERQ), self-compassion (SCS-D), and self-esteem (RSES) in perimenopausal women can be allocated to a single resilience-associated factor. Regression analyses revealed that this factor is related to higher life satisfaction (SWLS; β = .39, p < .001, adj. R2 = .20), lower perceived stress (PSS-10; β = − .55, p < .001, adj. R2 = .30), lower psychological distress (BSI-18; β = − .49, p < .001, adj. R2 = .22), better general psychological health (GHQ-12; β = − .49, p < .001, adj. R2 = .22), milder menopausal complaints (MRS II; β = − .41, p < .001, adj. R2 = .18), and lower depressive symptoms (ADS-L; β = − .32, p < .001, adj. R2 = .26). The α levels were adjusted for multiple testing. Our findings confirm that several psychosocial variables (optimism, emotional stability, emotion regulation, self-compassion, and self-esteem) can be allocated to one common resilience-associated factor. This resilience factor is strongly related to women’s well-being as well as mental health in perimenopause.

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