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Is sensitivity to daily stress predictive of onset or persistence of psychopathology?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

T. Vaessen ,
M. van Nierop ,
J. Decoster ,
P. Delespaul ,
C. Derom ,
M. de Hert ,
N. Jacobs ,
C. Menne-Lothmann ,
B. Rutten  and
E. Thiery
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T. Vaessen*
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Department of Neuroscience, Research Group Psychiatry, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, Kapucijnenvoer 35 bus 7001, 3000Leuven, Belgium Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience MHeNS, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
M. van Nierop
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Department of Neuroscience, Research Group Psychiatry, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, Kapucijnenvoer 35 bus 7001, 3000Leuven, Belgium
J. Decoster
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
P. Delespaul
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience MHeNS, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
C. Derom
Affiliation:
Department of Human Genetics, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
M. de Hert
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
N. Jacobs
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience MHeNS, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands, 6419AT Heerlen, The Netherlands
C. Menne-Lothmann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience MHeNS, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
B. Rutten
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience MHeNS, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
E. Thiery
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
J. van Os
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, South Limburg Mental Health Research and Teaching Network, EURON, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience MHeNS, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands King's College London, King's Health Partners, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, SE5 8AF London, UK
R. van Winkel
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Department of Neuroscience, Research Group Psychiatry, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, Kapucijnenvoer 35 bus 7001, 3000Leuven, Belgium
M. Wichers
Affiliation:
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), 9713GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
I. Myin-Germeys
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Department of Neuroscience, Research Group Psychiatry, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, Kapucijnenvoer 35 bus 7001, 3000Leuven, Belgium
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*Corresponding author. KU Leuven, Department of Neuroscience, Research Group Psychiatry, Center for Contextual Psychiatry, Kapucijnenvoer 35 bus 7001, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail address:thomas.vaessen@kuleuven.be (T. Vaessen).
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Abstract

Purpose:

The aim of the current study was to replicate findings in adults indicating that higher sensitivity to stressful events is predictive of both onset and persistence of psychopathological symptoms in a sample of adolescents and young adults. In addition, we tested the hypothesis that sensitivity to mild stressors in particular is predictive of the developmental course of psychopathology.

Methods:

We analyzed experience sampling and questionnaire data collected at baseline and one-year follow-up of 445 adolescent and young adult twins and non-twin siblings (age range: 15–34). Linear multilevel regression was used for the replication analyses. To test if affective sensitivity to mild stressors in particular was associated with follow-up symptoms, we used a categorical approach adding variables on affective sensitivity to mild, moderate and severe daily stressors to the model.

Results:

Linear analyses showed that emotional stress reactivity was not associated with onset (ß = .02; P = .56) or persistence (ß = -.01; P = .78) of symptoms. There was a significant effect of baseline symptom score (ß = .53; P < .001) and average negative affect (NA: ß = .19; P < .001) on follow-up symptoms. Using the categorical approach, we found that affective sensitivity to mild (ß = .25; P < .001), but not moderate (ß = -.03; P = .65) or severe (ß = -.06; P = .42), stressors was associated with symptom persistence one year later.

Discussion:

We were unable to replicate previous findings relating stress sensitivity linearly to symptom onset or persistence in a younger sample. Whereas sensitivity to more severe stressors may reflect adaptive coping, high sensitivity to the mildest of daily stressors may indicate an increased risk for psychopathology.

Keywords

Experience sampling methodStress reactivityEpidemiologyProspectiveLongitudinal
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European Psychiatry , Volume 45 , September 2017 , pp. 167 - 173
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

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