Project Details
Description
Background: Resilience is defined as the capacity to adapt successfully through multiple processes in
response to adverse events. While explanatory models are still in their infancy, theoretical and empirical
evidence suggest that self-regulatory processes may underlie resilient functioning. This proposal will develop
(Phase 1, Year 1) and then implement (Phase 2, Years 2-5) a study of 1,200 National Guard recruits in the first
two years of their enlistment in order to identify patterns and processes of adaptive (resilient) functioning in the
face of Basic Combat Training (BCT) and other adverse events.
Aims: The aims for Phase 1 are focused on planning and preparing for a longitudinal study of resilience in
National Guard recruits and include:
1) Use prior datasets to develop statistical algorithms for selecting
ilot baseline data collection procedures to
determine feasibility of enrollment and response rate targets for longitudinal study, 3) Develop and refine
contextualized measures of National Guard training stressor exposure, and 4) Evaluate the feasibility and
acceptability of neurobehavioral markers of resilience processes. During Phase 2, a comprehensive model of
resilience will be investigated using a four-year, mixed-method, longitudinal study to
participants with high and low probabilities of resilience, 2) P
1) Characterize latent
trajectories of adjustment among new military recruits beginning prior to BCT over two years, 2) Identify
promotive and protective predictors of resilient functioning in National Guard soldiers, and 3) Investigate
neurobehavioral pathways of self-regulation predictive of resilience trajectories in new military recruits.
Procedures and Analyses: In Phase 1, prediction algorithms will be established using analysis of datasets
gathered in prior National Guard studies. The measurement of BCT stressors, and feasibility of Phase 2
recruitment plans, will involve online surveys of 100 National Guard recruits before, during and immediately
after BCT. The feasibility and acceptability of neurobiological measures through imaging and laboratory tasks
piloting procedures will be assessed with 10 recruits undergoing procedures before and after BCT.
In Phase 2, on-line self-reports of symptoms (depression, anxiety, alcohol or drug use), adaptive social
functioning, and promotive, protective, and risk factors will be collected before and at 4 time points after BCT
with 1200 National Guard recruits. Growth mixture modeling will establish resilient and non-resilient trajectories
of adaptive functioning. Aim 2 will use predictive modeling of trajectories using predictors collected during the
baseline and subsequent time points. In Aim 3, 120 recruits will complete laboratory tasks (Farmer's task,
go/no-go task, dot probe task, performance monitoring task) before and after BCT while undergoing MRI or
EEG scans. Analyses will determine if these tasks can discriminate between recruits in the resilient vs. non-
resilient trajectories of functioning established in Aim 1.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 3/20/19 → 2/28/23 |
Funding
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $41,599.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $35,129.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $629,790.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $28,728.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $671,009.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $248,458.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $41,479.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $198,159.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $629,711.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $541,773.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $36,389.00
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: $41,599.00
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