Resilience to the effects of social stress: Evidence from clinical and preclinical studies on the role of coping strategies

Wood, Susan K.; Bhatnagar, Seema

doi:10.1016/j.ynstr.2014.11.002

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“…In addition, the results of the direct effects show that the association between general stress and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation for students from low‐tracking schools are solely significant on the within‐level, whereas these associations for students from high‐tracking schools are significant on the between‐level. This supports the assumption that students from low‐tracking schools are more resilient to social stress through more effective coping strategies (Wood & Bhatnagar, ) that could be examined in future studies.…”

Section: How Classmate Stress Affects An Individual's Quality Of Motisupporting

confidence: 76%

How classmates' stress affects student's quality of motivation

2018

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Over the last decades, more and more adolescents and children feel chronically stressed, which negatively affects their school performance. However, less is known whether classmates' general stress affects an individual student's quality of motivation. Therefore, based on conservation of resources theory, this study examined the precise interplay between general stress and the quality of motivation for students in high- and low-tracking schools considering potential context effects. Results of multilevel multigroup structural equation models with questionnaire data from 1,088 German students identified differences in the relation between general stress and quality of motivation for students from different school forms on both the within and between level.

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Section: How Classmate Stress Affects An Individual's Quality Of Motisupporting

confidence: 76%

How classmates' stress affects student's quality of motivation

2018

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“…These findings may support the neurotoxicity hypothesis, which proposes that stress‐related increases in glucocorticoids and decreases in neurotrophic factors result in hippocampal volume reductions . In contrast, avoidance coping is associated with passivity or helplessness, which results in increased vulnerability to stress . Thus, avoidance coping strategies may not directly be related to hippocampal function.…”

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confidence: 56%

Approach‐oriented coping strategy level may be related to volume of the whole hippocampus in the elderly

Kida

Nakajima

Shikimoto

et al. 2020

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Aim Stress‐related disorders and severe stress exposure can cause atrophy of the whole hippocampus and its subfields. However, the impact of stress coping strategies on the hippocampus remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to examine the relation between approach‐ and avoidance‐oriented coping strategies and hippocampal volume in elderly persons. Methods A total of 1045 elderly persons living in Arakawa‐ward, Tokyo (mean ± SD age: 72.8 ± 5.2 years; 569 females [54.4%]) were included in the study and completed several questionnaires and face‐to‐face interviews and underwent magnetic resonance imaging. Approach‐ or avoidance‐oriented coping strategies were assessed with the Stress and Coping Inventory, while cognitive function and depressive symptoms were assessed with the Mini‐Mental State Examination and Geriatric Depression Scale, respectively. The volume of the whole hippocampus on T1‐weighted images was delineated and calculated using FreeSurfer 6.0. Multiple regression analyses were performed to examine the relation between Stress and Coping Inventory scores and whole hippocampal volume. Results Approach‐oriented coping strategy scores were positively correlated with whole hippocampal volume. Furthermore, these relations remained significant after controlling for the influence of cognitive function and depressive symptoms on these volumetric variables. In contrast, avoidance‐oriented coping strategy scores were not correlated with whole hippocampal volume. Conclusion This study demonstrated that hippocampal volume may be associated with the approach‐oriented coping strategy; therefore, this strategy may preserve hippocampal volume in the elderly.

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“…Previous studies have shown that a reactive emotional coping strategy during social defeat, as measured by a short latency to display submissive postures, predicts vulnerability to subsequent development of anxiety-and depressive-like behavioral responses (25,27,60,61) and that inflammatory factors within the CNS drive the vulnerability to depressive-like behavioral responses in individuals with reactive coping responses (32). Thus, the decreased submissive behaviors in M. vaccae-immunized mice are consistent with a stress-resilient behavioral phenotype.…”

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Immunization with a heat-killed preparation of the environmental bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae promotes stress resilience in mice

Reber

Siebler

Donner

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The prevalence of inflammatory diseases is increasing in modern urban societies. Inflammation increases risk of stress-related pathology; consequently, immunoregulatory or antiinflammatory approaches may protect against negative stress-related outcomes. We show that stress disrupts the homeostatic relationship between the microbiota and the host, resulting in exaggerated inflammation. Repeated immunization with a heat-killed preparation of Mycobacterium vaccae, an immunoregulatory environmental microorganism, reduced subordinate, flight, and avoiding behavioral responses to a dominant aggressor in a murine model of chronic psychosocial stress when tested 1-2 wk following the final immunization. Furthermore, immunization with M. vaccae prevented stress-induced spontaneous colitis and, in stressed mice, induced anxiolytic or fear-reducing effects as measured on the elevated plus-maze, despite stress-induced gut microbiota changes characteristic of gut infection and colitis. Immunization with M. vaccae also prevented stress-induced aggravation of colitis in a model of inflammatory bowel disease. Depletion of regulatory T cells negated protective effects of immunization with M. vaccae on stress-induced colitis and anxiety-like or fear behaviors. These data provide a framework for developing microbiome-and immunoregulation-based strategies for prevention of stress-related pathologies.anxiety | chronic psychosocial stress | fear | microbiota | posttraumatic stress disorder

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Resilience to the effects of social stress: Evidence from clinical and preclinical studies on the role of coping strategies

Cited by 146 publications

References 159 publications

How classmates' stress affects student's quality of motivation

How classmates' stress affects student's quality of motivation

Approach‐oriented coping strategy level may be related to volume of the whole hippocampus in the elderly

Immunization with a heat-killed preparation of the environmental bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae promotes stress resilience in mice

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