Measuring resilience prospectively as the speed of affect recovery in daily life: a complex systems perspective on mental health.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is growing evidence that mental disorders behave like complex dynamic systems. Complex dynamic systems theory states that a slower recovery from small perturbations indicates a loss of resilience of a system. This study is the first to test whether the speed of recovery of affect states from small daily life perturbations predicts changes in psychopathological symptoms over 1 year in a group of adolescents at increased risk for mental disorders.

Methods

We used data from 157 adolescents from the TWINSSCAN study. Course of psychopathology was operationalized as the 1-year change in the Symptom Checklist-90 sum score. Two groups were defined: one with stable and one with increasing symptom levels. Time-series data on momentary daily affect and daily unpleasa

SUBMITTER: Kuranova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7027206 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature