Understanding social adversity and stress and mood symptoms: The Bayesian network approach

Abstract

Social adversity events commonly occur in our daily lives. However, an individual’s perception of social adversity experienced may be more important than actual events in impacting an individual’s psychological functioning and reactions. In the current study, we examined how individuals’ perception of social adversity events they experienced is associated with their traumatic stress symptoms as well as mood and anxiety symptoms using the Bayesian network model. The findings indicated that individuals with a perception of social adversity events as traumatic and frequent showed an increase in the probability of displaying a high level of posttraumatic stress symptoms.

How rumination influences meaning in life among Chinese high school students: the mediating effects of perceived chronic social adversity and coping style

“…Therefore, rumination (as a cognitive vulnerability factor) exerts a detrimental influence on the mental health of high school students because of its interaction with stressful life events (30). On the other hand, a higher level of perceived chronic social adversity has been found to decrease an individual's sense of control (39), impair their interpersonal skills (43), and lead to social anxiety (44) and non-adaptive behaviors, including aggression (29). For high school students, perceiving adverse events such as social exclusion not only increases stress but also decreases academic self-efficacy and school satisfaction, ultimately leading to learned helplessness in academic performance (45,46).…”