@article{ref1,
title="Self-focused and other-focused resiliency: plausible mechanisms linking early family adversity to health problems in college women",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2016",
author="Coleman, Sulamunn R. M. and Zawadzki, Matthew J. and Heron, Kristin E. and Vartanian, Lenny R. and Smyth, Joshua M.",
volume="64",
number="2",
pages="85-95",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether self-focused and other-focused resiliency help explain how early family adversity relates to perceived stress, subjective health, and health behaviors in college women. Participants: Female students (N = 795) participated between October 2009 and May 2010. <br><br>METHODS: Participants completed self-report measures of early family adversity, self-focused (self-esteem, personal growth initiative) and other-focused (perceived social support, gratitude) resiliency, stress, subjective health, and health behaviors. <br><br>RESULTS: Using structural equation modeling, self-focused resiliency associated with less stress, better subjective health, more sleep, less smoking, and less weekend alcohol consumption. Other-focused resiliency associated with more exercise, greater stress, and more weekend alcohol consumption. Early family adversity was indirectly related to all health outcomes, except smoking, via self-focused and other-focused resiliency. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Self-focused and other-focused resiliency represent plausible mechanisms through which early family adversity relates to stress and health in college women. This highlights areas for future research in disease prevention and management.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2015.1075994",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2015.1075994"
}