Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic Resilience
It has been suggested that personality traits may be prognostic for the severity of suffering from tinnitus. Resilience as measured with the Wagnild and Young resilience scale represents a positive personality characteristic that promotes adaptation to adverse life conditions including chronic healt...
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| description | It has been suggested that personality traits may be prognostic for the severity of suffering from tinnitus. Resilience as measured with the Wagnild and Young resilience scale represents a positive personality characteristic that promotes adaptation to adverse life conditions including chronic health conditions. Aim of the study was to explore the relation between resilience and tinnitus severity. In a cross-sectional study with a self-report questionnaire, information on tinnitus-related distress and subjective tinnitus loudness was recorded together with the personality characteristic resilience and emotional health, a measure generated from depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity scales. Data from 4705 individuals with tinnitus indicate that tinnitus-related distress and to a lesser extent the experienced loudness of the tinnitus show an inverse correlation with resilience. A mediation analysis revealed that the relationship between resilience and tinnitus-related distress is mediated by emotional health. This indirect effect indicates that high resilience is associated with better emotional health or less depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity, which in turn is associated with a less distressing tinnitus. Validity of resilience as a predictor for tinnitus-related distress is supported but needs to be explored further in longitudinal studies including acute tinnitus patients. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-49e9cf6d24bb4df8a735c8a77ff72db22025-08-20T03:34:18ZengWileyNeural Plasticity2090-59041687-54432014-01-01201410.1155/2014/370307370307Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic ResilienceElisabeth Wallhäusser-Franke0Wolfgang Delb1Tobias Balkenhol2Wolfgang Hiller3Karl Hörmann4Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, ENT-Department, Unit of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Ludolf-Krehl-Straße 13-17, 68167 Mannheim, GermanyMedical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, ENT-Department, Unit of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Ludolf-Krehl-Straße 13-17, 68167 Mannheim, GermanyMedical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, ENT-Department, Unit of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Ludolf-Krehl-Straße 13-17, 68167 Mannheim, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Wallstraße 3, 55122 Mainz, GermanyMedical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, ENT-Department, Unit of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Ludolf-Krehl-Straße 13-17, 68167 Mannheim, GermanyIt has been suggested that personality traits may be prognostic for the severity of suffering from tinnitus. Resilience as measured with the Wagnild and Young resilience scale represents a positive personality characteristic that promotes adaptation to adverse life conditions including chronic health conditions. Aim of the study was to explore the relation between resilience and tinnitus severity. In a cross-sectional study with a self-report questionnaire, information on tinnitus-related distress and subjective tinnitus loudness was recorded together with the personality characteristic resilience and emotional health, a measure generated from depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity scales. Data from 4705 individuals with tinnitus indicate that tinnitus-related distress and to a lesser extent the experienced loudness of the tinnitus show an inverse correlation with resilience. A mediation analysis revealed that the relationship between resilience and tinnitus-related distress is mediated by emotional health. This indirect effect indicates that high resilience is associated with better emotional health or less depression, anxiety, and somatic symptom severity, which in turn is associated with a less distressing tinnitus. Validity of resilience as a predictor for tinnitus-related distress is supported but needs to be explored further in longitudinal studies including acute tinnitus patients.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/370307 |
| spellingShingle | Elisabeth Wallhäusser-Franke Wolfgang Delb Tobias Balkenhol Wolfgang Hiller Karl Hörmann Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic Resilience Neural Plasticity |
| title | Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic Resilience |
| title_full | Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic Resilience |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic Resilience |
| title_short | Tinnitus-Related Distress and the Personality Characteristic Resilience |
| title_sort | tinnitus related distress and the personality characteristic resilience |
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