There is great interest in understanding who the population resilient face of major life events, and not. In this paper we construct a revealed measure adulthood psychological resilience by modelling individuals’ responses to ten adverse events using dynamic finite mixture regression model applied 17 years panel data. Our methodology accounts for non-random selection into differences between in...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether persons who experienced adverse childhood events or recent negative life events have a worse cognitive performance and faster cognitive decline and the role of depression and apolipoprotein E-∊4 in this relationship. METHODS The community-based sample consisted of 10-year follow-up data of 1312 persons participating in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (age r...

The etiology and clinical course of bipolar disorder are considered to be determined by genetic and environmental factors. Although the kindling hypothesis emphasizes the impact of environmental factors on initial onset, their connection to the outcome and clinical course have been poorly established. Hence, there have been numerous research efforts to investigate the impact of environmental fa...