Adolescent mental health and activities in the period of social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between the forms of youth activity (in a virtual environment and in the real world) and their mental health in the period of forced social isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings presented here are part of a larger international project (research-all.org).

Resilience in persons with affective and anxiety disorders and the experience of early trauma - pilot studies.

Objectives: The primary goal of the study was to examine the role of ego resilience as a factor contributing to the relationship between early trauma and the incidence of psychopathology in adult life; and to make an attempt at identifying the relationship between resilience and personality traits and the early experience of trauma and the incidence of psychopathology in adult life in persons with affective and anxiety disorders.

Methods: The study involved 30 patients of the Day Care Emotional and Mood Disorder Treatment Unit, University Hospital in Krakow, Poland, who were asked to complete the following inventories: the Early Trauma Inventory - Self Report, the NEO-PI-R, the Resilience Scale for Adults, and the Beck Depression Inventory.

Results: The vast majority of the participants (97%) experienced interpersonal trauma in childhood, mostly of physical (96.