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Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample
While adverse childhood experiences have been shown to contribute to adverse health outcomes in adulthood, specifically distress and somatic symptoms, few studies have examined their joint effects with resilient coping style on adult adjustment. Hence, we aim to determine the association between res...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173826 |
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author | Beutel, Manfred E. Tibubos, Ana N. Klein, Eva M. Schmutzer, Gabriele Reiner, Iris Kocalevent, Rüya-Daniela Brähler, Elmar |
author_facet | Beutel, Manfred E. Tibubos, Ana N. Klein, Eva M. Schmutzer, Gabriele Reiner, Iris Kocalevent, Rüya-Daniela Brähler, Elmar |
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description | While adverse childhood experiences have been shown to contribute to adverse health outcomes in adulthood, specifically distress and somatic symptoms, few studies have examined their joint effects with resilient coping style on adult adjustment. Hence, we aim to determine the association between resilient coping and distress in participants with and without reported childhood adversities. A representative German community sample (N = 2508) between 14–92 years (1334 women; 1174 men) was examined by the short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Brief Resilience Coping Scale, standardized scales of distress and somatoform symptoms. Childhood adversity was associated with reduced adjustment, social support and resilience. It was also strongly associated with increased distress and somatoform complaints. Resilient coping was not only associated with lower distress, it also buffered the effects of childhood adversity on distress. Our study corroborates the buffering effect of resilience in a representative German sample. High trait resilient subjects show less distress and somatoform symptoms despite reported childhood adversities in comparison to those with low resilient coping abilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-53519922017-04-06 Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample Beutel, Manfred E. Tibubos, Ana N. Klein, Eva M. Schmutzer, Gabriele Reiner, Iris Kocalevent, Rüya-Daniela Brähler, Elmar PLoS One Research Article While adverse childhood experiences have been shown to contribute to adverse health outcomes in adulthood, specifically distress and somatic symptoms, few studies have examined their joint effects with resilient coping style on adult adjustment. Hence, we aim to determine the association between resilient coping and distress in participants with and without reported childhood adversities. A representative German community sample (N = 2508) between 14–92 years (1334 women; 1174 men) was examined by the short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Brief Resilience Coping Scale, standardized scales of distress and somatoform symptoms. Childhood adversity was associated with reduced adjustment, social support and resilience. It was also strongly associated with increased distress and somatoform complaints. Resilient coping was not only associated with lower distress, it also buffered the effects of childhood adversity on distress. Our study corroborates the buffering effect of resilience in a representative German sample. High trait resilient subjects show less distress and somatoform symptoms despite reported childhood adversities in comparison to those with low resilient coping abilities. Public Library of Science 2017-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5351992/ /pubmed/28296938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173826 Text en © 2017 Beutel et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Beutel, Manfred E. Tibubos, Ana N. Klein, Eva M. Schmutzer, Gabriele Reiner, Iris Kocalevent, Rüya-Daniela Brähler, Elmar Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample |
title | Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample |
title_full | Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample |
title_fullStr | Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample |
title_short | Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample |
title_sort | childhood adversities and distress - the role of resilience in a representative sample |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351992/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173826 |
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