The Hormesis Model for Building Resilience Through Adversity: Attention to Mechanism in Developmental Context

Oshri, Assaf

doi:10.1177/10892680221142020

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“…The Yerkes–Dodson law (1908) and Hormesis Hypothesis (Oshri, 2022) suggest that stress is only beneficial for performance (i.e., eustress) until a threshold is reached and after which performance declines (i.e., distress). Our within-person results somewhat mirror these quadratic inverted U-shaped associations between stress and performance when partner support is included.…”

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Deviations in stress and support: Associations with parenting emotions across the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hibel

Boyer

Buhler‐Wassmann

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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Stress is a potent disruptor of parents’ emotional well-being and interactions with their children. In the context of the early months of the unfolding pandemic, parents’ stress likely fluctuated, with downstream impacts on their parenting experiences. The sample consisted of 72 Latina mothers who participated in a 15–20-min phone interview roughly once a month between March 2020 and January 2021. Mothers were asked about their experiences of stress, the quality of partner support, and their emotional experience of parenting. Analyses revealed that mothers’ experiences of stress were high at the beginning of the pandemic and slowly decreased as time went on, though this decline eventually leveled off. Partner support and mothers’ emotional experiences of parenting, on the other hand, did not change across the first 10 months of the pandemic. Collectively, the within and between analyses revealed that stress (individually), and stress and support (interactively) were associated with mothers’ emotional experiences while interacting with their children. Between-subjects analyses revealed greater stress was associated with greater negative emotions during parenting, though support did not buffer this association. Within-subjects analyses revealed a quadratic association between stress and positive parenting emotions, such that at lower levels of stress, increases in stress were associated with more positive than typical emotions during parenting. However, the inclusion of social support into the model as a moderator revealed that when mothers received less support than typical from their partners, mothers’ greater experience of stress was associated with their greater experience of negativity during parent–child interactions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deviations in stress and support: Associations with parenting emotions across the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hibel

Boyer

Buhler‐Wassmann

et al. 2023

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Conversely, chronic, high levels of stress can be toxic, potentially damaging mental, emotional, and physical functioning. 18 Building resilience as a protective coping strategy may also help dampen susceptibility to occupational stress and burnout altogether. If one's resilience is strong, level of functioning under pressure has been shown to improve.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Studies have shown that low to moderate levels of stress may foster learning experiences and personal growth that improve resilience building and brain functioning while reducing mental illness risk. Conversely, chronic, high levels of stress can be toxic, potentially damaging mental, emotional, and physical functioning 18. Building resilience as a protective coping strategy may also help dampen susceptibility to occupational stress and burnout altogether.…”

Section: Stress and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Feasibility of a 3-Minute Mindful Breathing Intervention for Enhancing Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses' Resilience During COVID

Owens,

Houchins,

Nolan

et al. 2024

Holistic Nursing Practice

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COVID created a perfect storm of conditions leading to excessive and prolonged stress on already vulnerable nurses. This study examines the feasibility of enhancing psychiatric mental health nurses' (PMHNs') resilience by practicing a 3-minute mindfulness-based intervention. In this pilot study, we explored if PMHNs could be recruited and retained for intervention implementation, intervention acceptability, and measurement of any notable changes over the prescribed period. Study feasibility is reflected in high participant retention and increased postintervention resilience scores. Given the positive outcomes, a larger-scale study is warranted. Additional areas of opportunity include strategies for increasing participant uptake, and, due to limited acceptability feedback, the introduction of a usefulness scale.

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“…While stress is perceived as a negative event, increasingly nuanced investigations of perceived stress and performance suggest a u-shaped association, with low-moderate levels of stress enhancing cognitive and physical performance, and high levels of stress, or no stress, diminishing performance. This emerging theory of stress, initially described by Rutter (2012) as a steeling effect, and more recently expressed as hormesis, a concept borrowed from the field of toxicology (Oshri et al, 2022; Oshri, 2022), is providing a more contextualized understanding of the interactions between individuals and their environments, suggesting that even external stressors can benefit human development when delivered in manageable amounts.…”

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Multisystemic approaches to researching young people’s resilience: Discovering culturally and contextually sensitive accounts of thriving under adversity

2023

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As our understanding of the process of resilience has become more culturally and contextually grounded, researchers have had to seek innovative ways to account for the complex, reciprocal relationship between the many systems that influence young people’s capacity to thrive. This paper briefly traces the history of a more contextualized understanding of resilience and then reviews a social–ecological model to explain multisystemic resilience. A case study is then used to show how a multisystemic understanding of resilience can influence the design and implementation of resilience research. The Resilient Youth in Stressed Environments study is a longitudinal mixed methods investigation of adolescents and emerging adults in communities that depend on oil and gas industries in Canada and South Africa. These communities routinely experience stress at individual, family, and institutional levels from macroeconomic factors related to boom-and-bust economic cycles. Building on the project’s methods and findings, we discuss how to create better studies of resilience which are able to capture both emic and etic accounts of positive developmental processes in ways that avoid the tendency to homogenize children’s experience. Limitations to doing multisystemic resilience research are also highlighted, with special attention to the need for further innovation.

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The Hormesis Model for Building Resilience Through Adversity: Attention to Mechanism in Developmental Context

Cited by 7 publications

References 122 publications

Deviations in stress and support: Associations with parenting emotions across the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deviations in stress and support: Associations with parenting emotions across the COVID-19 pandemic.

Feasibility of a 3-Minute Mindful Breathing Intervention for Enhancing Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses' Resilience During COVID

Multisystemic approaches to researching young people’s resilience: Discovering culturally and contextually sensitive accounts of thriving under adversity

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