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  • Psychology
  • Gerontology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Major life stressors are hypothesized to decrease resilience and increase mortality.
  • Prospective evidence for this hypothesis is limited.
  • This study addresses the impact of multiple major health events on resilience and mortality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if multiple major health events diminish resilience and increase mortality rates.
  • To examine the relationship between health events, resilience, and mortality in a prospective cohort.
  • To identify distinct trajectories of depression and resilience following health events.

Main Methods:

  • A prospective cohort study of 1,395 individuals from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).
  • Data examined 2 years before to 4 years after single or multiple health events (lung disease, heart disease, stroke, cancer).
  • Latent growth mixture modeling (LGMM) identified depression and resilience trajectories, compared on mortality rates.

Main Results:

  • Four distinct trajectories were identified: resilience, emergent post-event depression, chronic pre-to-post depression, and improved prior depression.
  • Multiple health events did not decrease resilience rates.
  • Emergent depression increased mortality risk, but this risk was not amplified by multiple events within this group.

Conclusions:

  • Multiple major stressors do not reduce resilience.
  • The onset of depression following health events significantly elevates mortality risk.
  • Mortality risk associated with emergent depression is independent of the number of health events experienced.