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Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies

Resilience, the ability to overcome adversity and face stressful demands and experiences, has been strongly associated with successful aging, a low risk of diseases and high mental and physical functioning. This relationship could be based on adaptive coping behaviors, but more research is needed to...

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Autores principales: Zapater-Fajarí, Mariola, Crespo-Sanmiguel, Isabel, Pulopulos, Matias M., Hidalgo, Vanesa, Salvador, Alicia
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33692681
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.632141
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author Zapater-Fajarí, Mariola
Crespo-Sanmiguel, Isabel
Pulopulos, Matias M.
Hidalgo, Vanesa
Salvador, Alicia
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Crespo-Sanmiguel, Isabel
Pulopulos, Matias M.
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description Resilience, the ability to overcome adversity and face stressful demands and experiences, has been strongly associated with successful aging, a low risk of diseases and high mental and physical functioning. This relationship could be based on adaptive coping behaviors, but more research is needed to gain knowledge about the strategies employed to confront social stress. Thus, we aimed to investigate the role of the use of active or passive coping strategies by resilient people in dealing with stressful situations. For this purpose, we measured resilience, coping strategies, and perceived stress in 66 healthy older adults (31 men and 35 women) between 56 and 75 years old who were exposed to stress (Trier Social Stress Test, TSST) or a control situation. The stress response was analyzed at endocrine (cortisol) and psychological (anxiety) levels. In the stress condition, moderated mediation analysis showed a conditional indirect effect of resilience on cortisol reactivity through active coping. However, passive coping strategies did not mediate the resilience-cortisol relationship. In addition, neither active nor passive coping mediated the relationship between resilience and the anxiety response. These results suggest that resilience is associated with active coping strategies, which in turn could explain, at least in part, individual differences in the cortisol response to a psychosocial laboratory stressor. These factors may prevent the development of stress-related pathologies associated with aging and facilitate healthy and satisfactory aging.
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spelling pubmed-79379692021-03-09 Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies Zapater-Fajarí, Mariola Crespo-Sanmiguel, Isabel Pulopulos, Matias M. Hidalgo, Vanesa Salvador, Alicia Front Aging Neurosci Neuroscience Resilience, the ability to overcome adversity and face stressful demands and experiences, has been strongly associated with successful aging, a low risk of diseases and high mental and physical functioning. This relationship could be based on adaptive coping behaviors, but more research is needed to gain knowledge about the strategies employed to confront social stress. Thus, we aimed to investigate the role of the use of active or passive coping strategies by resilient people in dealing with stressful situations. For this purpose, we measured resilience, coping strategies, and perceived stress in 66 healthy older adults (31 men and 35 women) between 56 and 75 years old who were exposed to stress (Trier Social Stress Test, TSST) or a control situation. The stress response was analyzed at endocrine (cortisol) and psychological (anxiety) levels. In the stress condition, moderated mediation analysis showed a conditional indirect effect of resilience on cortisol reactivity through active coping. However, passive coping strategies did not mediate the resilience-cortisol relationship. In addition, neither active nor passive coping mediated the relationship between resilience and the anxiety response. These results suggest that resilience is associated with active coping strategies, which in turn could explain, at least in part, individual differences in the cortisol response to a psychosocial laboratory stressor. These factors may prevent the development of stress-related pathologies associated with aging and facilitate healthy and satisfactory aging. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7937969/ /pubmed/33692681 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.632141 Text en Copyright © 2021 Zapater-Fajarí, Crespo-Sanmiguel, Pulopulos, Hidalgo and Salvador. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Zapater-Fajarí, Mariola
Crespo-Sanmiguel, Isabel
Pulopulos, Matias M.
Hidalgo, Vanesa
Salvador, Alicia
Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies
title Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies
title_full Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies
title_fullStr Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies
title_full_unstemmed Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies
title_short Resilience and Psychobiological Response to Stress in Older People: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies
title_sort resilience and psychobiological response to stress in older people: the mediating role of coping strategies
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7937969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33692681
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.632141
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