"Vulnerability factors" refers to characteristics or circumstances that increase the likelihood of a person or a system being harmed, affected, or negatively impacted by something.
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Evaluation of protective and
vulnerability factors for depression following an internet - based intervention to prevent depression in at - risk adolescents.
For future research, it would be interesting to investigate the developmental nature of the models using longitudinal designs, taking into account domain specificity
of vulnerability factors.
Background A range of studies show adult attachment style is associated with depressive -
vulnerability factors such as low self - esteem, poor support and childhood adversity.
This suggests that low self - esteem can be a
stable vulnerability factor that makes adolescents vulnerable to develop depressive symptoms throughout their way to adulthood.
The present study examines whether cognitive and
interpersonal vulnerability factors to depression contribute to stress generation in children, independent of their current depressive symptoms.
Butler, A.C., Hokanson, J.E.,, 1994, A comparison of self - esteem ability and low self - esteem
as vulnerability factors for depression 66: 166 ~ 177
Research in adolescent samples is particularly scarce, but preliminary evidence provides support for the role of cognitive
vulnerability factors in transactional models via stress generation processes.
For this first nationwide assessment of drinking water quality over several decades, trends in health - related incidents were evaluated along
with vulnerability factors possibly influencing the frequency of violations since the 1974 passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The primary questions regarding Notre Dame are a) does this hysteria force the university to choose more permanent membership, b) do the Irish choose the partial membership arrangement they currently have with the ACC, c) is the conference's
sudden vulnerability a factor, and d) what happens while the Irish are mulling all of this over?
We are also starting to recruit the siblings of problem gamblers (those who do not have a gambling problem themselves) in order to look at
underlying vulnerability factors,» concluded Dr Clark.
Identifying hot spots and
vulnerability factors associated with violations indicates the types of communities that can benefit from greater regulatory oversight and assistance to help reduce quality issues, improve compliance and ensure safe drinking water across the nation.»
These maps measure and illustrate the convergence of
social vulnerability factors (such as economic standing and age, among others) and four environmental hazards: flooding, hurricane force winds, sea - level rise, and drought.
Other parental factors such as anxious modelling, an over-controlling parenting style, ineffective disciplinary methods and
child vulnerability factors such as their temperament, the way they think, and their age can also contribute to the likelihood of a child developing anxiety problems.
Dr. Dunkley is a FRSQ Chercheur - Boursier and the primary goal of his research has been to examine the mechanisms through which perfectionism is a
personality vulnerability factor to depression.
At the same time, less research with adolescent samples has examined whether cognitive
vulnerability factors contribute to stress generation (for exceptions see Shahar and Priel 2003; Shih et al. 2009).
Self - esteem is thus proposed to be an
important vulnerability factor and may be particularly relevant to study in adolescents, because of the important role it plays in social development during adolescence (Steinberg and Morris 2001).
Inherent to diathesis - stress models is the belief that the interaction between
pre-morbid vulnerability factors and situational stressors contributes to the onset of depressive symptomology (Monroe and Hadiyannakis 2002).
The impact of role stressors on workplace bullying in both victims and perpetrators, controlling for
personal vulnerability factors: A longitudinal analysis.
Conclusion Non-standard attachment in the form of markedly Enmeshed, Fearful or Angry - dismissive styles was shown to be associated with other depressive -
vulnerability factors involving close relationships, self - esteem and childhood adversity and added to these in modelling depression.
Current findings highlight the importance of taking into account domain specifity of
vulnerability factors in the examination of developmental models of depression in youth.
At the same time, given culture - specific factors including the authoritative communist political structure and restricted educational opportunities (Fong 2006), it is likely that
vulnerability factors such as a lack of perceived control regarding the self, world, and future underscores vulnerability to depression.
Evaluation of protective and
vulnerability factors for depression following an internet - based intervention to prevent depression in at - risk adolescents (2017)
In a linked editorial, Cornelius Katona, medical director at the Helen Bamber Foundation, says «a robust mental health response to the refugee «crisis» must lie in a combination of clinical vigilance, recognition
of vulnerability factors, and above all, a determination to minimise the aggravating effects of post-migration experiences.»
According to Sekiguchi, the new finding suggests that the reduced size is a «
vulnerability factor» for the disorder.
Our idea was to look at
a vulnerability factor / risk factor pupil response and see if we could predict which families have the most depression following the flood if they had more of this particular risk factor.»
«Although numerous researchers have suggested that reduced responsivity is
a vulnerability factor for substance use, this theory was based entirely on cross-sectional studies comparing substance abusing individuals to healthy controls; no studies have tested this thesis with prospective data.»
Compared to everything else going on, like wondering whether or not you're actually being funny,
your vulnerability factor is something that you can actually influence.
Low social functioning can act as
a vulnerability factor for more frequent relapses.32 It is important for psychological therapy to aim to increase patients» level of social functioning.