Effect of Self-Efficacy on Vicarious Trauma and Resiliency in School Counsellors in Turkey

Aksan, Aygül Tunç; Gündüz, Bülent; Yildiz, Mehmet Cemal

doi:10.1007/s10447-021-09459-5

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“…VT varies with situational and personal factors such as socioeconomic status, previous trauma history, coping strategies, the ability to tolerate strong affect, and psychological resilience [ 13 – 15 ]. Psychological resilience, defined as the ability to adapt positively to difficulties and recover from significant adversity, trauma, or stressful events [ 16 ], is particularly important in determining whether an individual develops PTSD after exposure to traumatic events [ 17 ].…”

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Psychological resilience mediates the protective role of default-mode network functional connectivity against COVID-19 vicarious traumatization

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Vicarious traumatization (VT), a negative reaction to witnessing others’ trauma, has been experienced by some people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and can lead to mental health problems. This study aimed to identify functional brain markers of COVID-specific VT and explore the psychological mechanism underlying the brain-VT link. One hundred healthy participants underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging before the pandemic (October 2019–January 2020) and completed VT measurement during the pandemic (February–April 2020). Whole-brain correlation analysis based on global functional connectivity density (FCD) mapping revealed that VT was negatively correlated with FCD in the right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) (i.e., the lower FCD in ITG, the worse the VT), identified by mapping onto known large-scale networks as part of the default-mode network (DMN). Resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) analysis using ITG as seed found that VT was predicted by lower functional connectivity between ITG and other DMN regions including left medial prefrontal cortex, left orbitofrontal cortex, right superior frontal gyrus, right inferior parietal lobule and bilateral precuneus (i.e., the lower the ITG-DMN connectivity, the worse the VT). Mediation analyses suggested that psychological resilience served as a mediator in these associations of ITG FCD and ITG-DMN RSFC with VT. Our results provide novel evidence on the brain basis of VT and emphasize psychological resilience as an important link from DMN functional connectivity to COVID-specific-VT. This may facilitate public health interventions by helping identify individuals at risk of stress- and trauma-related psychopathologies.

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