Kalisch, Raffael
Cramer, Angelique OJ
Binder, Harald
Fritz, Jessica
Leertouwer, IJsbrand
Lunansky, Gabriela
Meyer, Benjamin
Timmer, Jens
Veer, Ily M.
van Harmelen, Anne-Laura
2019-05-25
<p>Resilience is still often viewed as a unitary personality construct that, as a kind of anti-nosological entity, protects individuals against stress-related mental problems. However, increasing evidence indicates that the maintenance of mental health in the face of adversity results from complex and dynamic processes of adaptation to stressors that involve the activation of several separable protective factors. Such resilience factors can reside at biological, psychological and social levels and may include stable predispositions (such as genotype or personality traits) and malleable properties, skills, capacities or external circumstances (such as gene expression patterns, emotion regulation abilities, appraisal styles or social support). We here abandon the notion of resilience as an entity. Starting from a conceptualization of psychiatric disorders as dynamic networks of interacting symptoms that may be driven by stressors into stable maladaptive states of disease, we deconstruct the maintenance of mental health during stressor exposure into time-variant dampening influences of resilience factors onto these symptom networks. Resilience factors are separate additional network nodes that weaken symptom-symptom interconnections or symptom auto-connections, thereby preventing maladaptive system transitions. We argue that these "hybrid symptom-and-resilience factor" (HSR) networks provide a promising new way of unraveling the complex dynamics of mental health.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3228687
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3228686
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Perspectives on Psychological Science, (2019-05-25)
resilience
stress
mental health
anxiety
depression
network
Deconstructing and reconstructing resilience: a dynamic network approach
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