{"doi":"10.31234/osf.io/n9su7","title":"Adolescent resilience in the face of acute stressors: the role of trauma and protective factors","abstract":"Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced acute stressors that posed significant threats to adolescent mental health. However, limited research has examined the impact of trauma exposure on vulnerability to acute stressor-related mental health outcomes in adolescents. Furthermore, little is known about the role of factors that promote resilience in this context. This preregistered study aimed to investigate the impact of trauma on COVID-19 stressor-related mental health difficulties in adolescents, in addition to the role of protective factors.Method: Aims were investigated in a large sample of 9,933 adolescents (mean age 12.85 +/- 0.88 years) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. Linear mixed effects models were employed to examine a) the associations of early trauma exposure (exposed vs. non-exposed), COVID-19 stressors, and perceived stress, sadness, and positive affect levels during the pandemic period in the US, and b) the role of protective factors (physical activity, parental support, and positive family and peer relationships) in these associations. Results: There was a positive association between COVID-19 stressors and sadness, which was enhanced in trauma-exposed adolescents. Higher levels of positive family and peer relationships mitigated the positive association between COVID-19 stressors and all mental health outcomes, regardless of prior traumatic experience. Conclusion: These findings support the hypothesis that prior trauma elevates risk of mental health difficulties in the face of future acute stressors. Results underscore the protective role of social relationships as targets for early prevention and intervention in those experiencing acute stressors, regardless of prior traumatic experience.","journal":"PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)","year":2023,"id":414292,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9444,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":236923,"name":"Vanessa Cropley","orcid":"0000-0003-0029-1525","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240748,"name":"Sarah Whittle","orcid":"0000-0003-3145-1528","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":884547,"name":"Divyangana Rakesh","orcid":"0000-0002-8529-2086","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1196051,"name":"Lu Zhang","orcid":"0000-0002-6599-1832","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":47,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:22:05.177070Z","pmid":null,"pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}