Affective reserve, its development in context of critical life events and its effects on individual coping abilities and mental health or stress
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Adult participants, who have sufficient knowledge of the German language and are neither acutely life-threateningly ill nor severely impaired, will be surveyed within a cross-sectional data c
Sponsors
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie | Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies der Medizinischen Fakultät und Uniklinik Köln der Universität zu Köln
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: • Minimum age of 18 years • German as native language or sufficiently good written and spoken German language skills • Unrestricted or sufficiently corrected vision and hearing • Individuals are able to follow instructions and complete questionnaires independently. • Written consent to participate in the study
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: • Acute life-threatening illnesses that prevent participation in the study • Severe cognitive impairment (Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) = 12 points as the cut-off value between mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's dementia according to Nasreddine et al., 2005)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| • Primary outcome and secondary outcome: not applicable (no interventional study) • Research objective: development and validation of a statistical model to describe affective reserve in adulthood as emotional adaptability and resistance to risk factors for mental illness, arising from previous experiences throughout the lifespan • Implementation of the research objective: exploratory, non-experimental correlation study • Primary predictor variables (key influencing factors according to the above research objective): - Number of previous critical life events (Kritische Lebensereignis-Kategorien-Skala (KLEKS) - Average subjective valence of previous critical life events (Kritische Lebensereignis-Kategorien-Skala (KLEKS) - Average subjective controllability of previous critical life events (Kritische Lebensereignis-Kategorien-Skala (KLEKS) • Secondary predictor variables (considered as control variables with a potentially modulating effect): - Sociodemographic variables: gender, age, marital status, socioeconomic status - Past and ongoing illnesses - Deductive reasoning (subtest 4 of the Leistungsprüfsystem (LPS) or the Leistungsprüfsystem 50+ (LPS 50+)) - Big Five personality variables: extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness (NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI)) - Social support (Fragebogen zur Sozialen Unterstützung (F-SozU)) • Primary criterion variables (key outcome measures according to the above research objective): - Resilience (Resilienzskala (RS-13)) - Coping strategies: task-oriented coping, emotion-oriented coping, and avoidance-oriented coping (Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS)) - Stress experience (Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)) - Global burden of psychological symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)) • Secondary criterion variables (considered for the investigation of possible complementary or specific effects): - Health literacy (European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU-Q47)) - S | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactSophia Lammertz
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie | Neuropsychologie und Gender Studies der Medizinischen Fakultät und Uniklinik Köln der Universität zu Köln
Outcome results
None listed