TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blessin, Manpreet
A1  - Lehmann, Sophie
A1  - Kunzler, Angela Mareike
A1  - Dick, Rolf van
A1  - Lieb, Klaus
T1  - Resilience interventions conducted in western and eastern countries — a systematic review
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health : IJERPH
N2  - Previous research has demonstrated the efficacy of psychological interventions to foster resilience. However, little is known about whether the cultural context in which resilience interventions are implemented affects their efficacy on mental health. Studies performed in Western (k = 175) and Eastern countries (k = 46) regarding different aspects of interventions (setting, mode of delivery, target population, underlying theoretical approach, duration, control group design) and their efficacy on resilience, anxiety, depressive symptoms, quality of life, perceived stress, and social support were compared. Interventions in Eastern countries were longer in duration and tended to be more often conducted in group settings with a focus on family caregivers. We found evidence for larger effect sizes of resilience interventions in Eastern countries for improving resilience (standardized mean difference [SMD] = 0.48, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.28 to 0.67; p < 0.0001; 43 studies; 6248 participants; I2 = 97.4%). Intercultural differences should receive more attention in resilience intervention research. Future studies could directly compare interventions in different cultural contexts to explain possible underlying causes for differences in their efficacy on mental health outcomes.
KW  - resilience
KW  - intervention
KW  - cultural psychology
KW  - mental health
KW  - anxiety
KW  - depression
KW  - quality of life
KW  - perceived stress
KW  - social support
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62201
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-622010
SN  - 1660-4601
N1  - This work was funded by the Leibniz Gemeinschaft (Grant Number K83/2017). The grant was awarded to undertake the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence project ‘Resilience Factors in a diachronic and intercultural Perspective’. The project provides a collaboration of the Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology—Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) and the Johannes Gutenberg University (all three in Mainz, Germany), the Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) of the German Archaeological Institute and the Goethe University (both in Frankfurt a. M.) as well as the Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt.
VL  - 19.2022
IS  - 6913
SP  - 1
EP  - 25
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -