RT Journal Article
T1 The network structure of psychopathological and resilient responses to the pandemic: A multicountry general population study of depression and anxiety
A1 Contreras, Alba
A1 Peinado Tena, Vanesa
A1 Valiente Ots, M. Carmen
A1 Bertamini, Marco
A1 Bruno, Giovanni
A1 Bentall, Richard P.
A1 Butter, Sarah
A1 Trucharte Martínez, Almudena
A1 Vázquez Valverde, Carmelo José
A1 Shevlin, Mark
A1 Mignemi, Giuseppe
A1 Granziol, Umberto
A1 Zavlis, Orestis
A1 Murphy, Jamie
A1 Hartman, Todd K.
A1 Spoto, Andrea
A1 Panzeri, Anna
A1 Vidotto, Giulio
AB Commonly identified patterns of psychological distress in response to adverse events are characterized by resilience (i.e., little to no distress), delayed (i.e., distress that increases over time), recovery (i.e., distress followed by a gradual decrease over time), and sustained (i.e., distress remaining stable over time). This study aimed to examine these response patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety and depressive symptom data collected across four European countries over the first year of the pandemic were analyzed (N = 3,594). Participants were first categorized into groups based on the four described patterns. Network connectivity and symptom clustering were then estimated for each group and compared. Two thirds (63.6%) of the sample displayed a resilience pattern. The sustained distress network (16.3%) showed higher connectivity than the recovery network (10.0%) group, p = .031; however, the resilient network showed higher connectivity than the delayed network (10.1%) group, p = .016. Regarding symptom clustering, more clusters emerged in the recovery network (i.e., three) than the sustained network (i.e., two). These results replicate findings that resilience was the most common mental health pattern over the first pandemic year. Moreover, they suggest that high network connectivity may be indicative of a stable mental health response over time, whereas fewer clusters may be indicative of a sustained distress pattern. Although exploratory, the network perspective provides a useful tool for examining the complexity of psychological responses to adverse events and, if replicated, could be useful in identifying indicators of protection against or vulnerability to future psychological distress.
PB International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
SN 0894-9867
YR 2024
FD 2024-02-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113915
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/113915
LA eng
NO Contreras, A., Butter, S., Granziol, U., Panzeri, A., Peinado, V., Trucharte, A., Zavlis, O., Valiente, C., Vázquez, C., Murphy, J., Bertamini, M., Shevlin, M., Hartman, T. K., Bruno, G., Mignemi, G., Spoto, A., Vidotto, G., & Bentall, R. P. (2024). The network structure of psychopathological and resilient responses to the pandemic: A multicountry general population study of depression and anxiety. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 37(1), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22988
NO This article has earned Open Materials and Preregistered Research Design badges. The preregistered design and materials are available at https://osf.io/95m4j/, and https://osf.io/xbsnj, respectively. Furthermore, data andR code can be found in the Supplementary Materials.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
NO Instituto de Salud Carlos III
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 11 abr 2025