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Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study
PURPOSE: Negative life events (LEs) are associated with mental health problems in youth. However, little is known about underlying mechanisms. The aim of the study was to investigate whether exposure to LEs modifies stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life. METHODS: Ecological Momentary Assessment (...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35467134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02276-0 |
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author | Rauschenberg, Christian Schulte-Strathaus, Julia C. C. van Os, Jim Goedhart, Matthieu Schieveld, Jan N. M. Reininghaus, Ulrich |
author_facet | Rauschenberg, Christian Schulte-Strathaus, Julia C. C. van Os, Jim Goedhart, Matthieu Schieveld, Jan N. M. Reininghaus, Ulrich |
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description | PURPOSE: Negative life events (LEs) are associated with mental health problems in youth. However, little is known about underlying mechanisms. The aim of the study was to investigate whether exposure to LEs modifies stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life. METHODS: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) was used to assess stress sensitivity (i.e., association of momentary stress with (i) negative affect and (ii) psychotic experiences) in 99 adolescents and young adults (42 service users, 17 siblings, and 40 controls; M(age) 15 years). Before EMA, exposure to LEs (e.g., intrusive threats, experience of loss, serious illness) was assessed. RESULTS: Lifetime as well as previous-year exposure to LEs modified stress sensitivity in service users: they experienced more intense negative affect and psychotic experiences in response to stress when high vs. low exposure levels were compared. In contrast, controls showed no differences in stress sensitivity by exposure levels. Looking at specific types of LEs, controls showed less intense negative affect in response to stress when high vs. low exposure levels to threatening events during the last year, but not lifetime exposure, were compared. In siblings, no evidence was found that LEs modified stress sensitivity. CONCLUSION: Stress sensitivity may constitute a putative risk mechanism linking LEs and mental health in help-seeking youth, while unfavourable effects of LEs on stress sensitivity may attenuate over time or do not occur in controls and siblings. Targeting individuals’ sensitivity to stress in daily life using novel digital interventions may be a promising approach towards improving youth mental health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00127-022-02276-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-92889442022-07-19 Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study Rauschenberg, Christian Schulte-Strathaus, Julia C. C. van Os, Jim Goedhart, Matthieu Schieveld, Jan N. M. Reininghaus, Ulrich Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol Original Paper PURPOSE: Negative life events (LEs) are associated with mental health problems in youth. However, little is known about underlying mechanisms. The aim of the study was to investigate whether exposure to LEs modifies stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life. METHODS: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) was used to assess stress sensitivity (i.e., association of momentary stress with (i) negative affect and (ii) psychotic experiences) in 99 adolescents and young adults (42 service users, 17 siblings, and 40 controls; M(age) 15 years). Before EMA, exposure to LEs (e.g., intrusive threats, experience of loss, serious illness) was assessed. RESULTS: Lifetime as well as previous-year exposure to LEs modified stress sensitivity in service users: they experienced more intense negative affect and psychotic experiences in response to stress when high vs. low exposure levels were compared. In contrast, controls showed no differences in stress sensitivity by exposure levels. Looking at specific types of LEs, controls showed less intense negative affect in response to stress when high vs. low exposure levels to threatening events during the last year, but not lifetime exposure, were compared. In siblings, no evidence was found that LEs modified stress sensitivity. CONCLUSION: Stress sensitivity may constitute a putative risk mechanism linking LEs and mental health in help-seeking youth, while unfavourable effects of LEs on stress sensitivity may attenuate over time or do not occur in controls and siblings. Targeting individuals’ sensitivity to stress in daily life using novel digital interventions may be a promising approach towards improving youth mental health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00127-022-02276-0. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-04-25 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9288944/ /pubmed/35467134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02276-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visithttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Rauschenberg, Christian Schulte-Strathaus, Julia C. C. van Os, Jim Goedhart, Matthieu Schieveld, Jan N. M. Reininghaus, Ulrich Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
title | Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
title_full | Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
title_fullStr | Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
title_full_unstemmed | Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
title_short | Negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
title_sort | negative life events and stress sensitivity in youth’s daily life: an ecological momentary assessment study |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9288944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35467134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-022-02276-0 |
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