Striving against adversity yields psychological benefits but increased cardiovascular disease risks beyond a certain threshold of adversity in children.
In children facing severe adversity, striving behaviors may preserve psychological well-being at the cost of increased subclinical cardiovascular disease risk.
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This pattern we observed is becoming consistent in the literature, whereby striving against adversity produces psychological and physical benefits when adversity is below a certain threshold but produces continued psychological benefits yet CVD risks when adversity rises beyond this threshold. Efforts to protect children living in severe adversity might benefit from interventions designed to maintain the psychological benefits associated with striving against adversity while simultaneously blocking any harm to the cardiovascular system. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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