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Psychological resilience mediates the association of the middle frontal gyrus functional connectivity with sleep quality

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Psychological resilience is characterized as the ability to recover from stress, which is essential for sleep quality. However, the neurological underpinnings of psychological resilience and the neural substrates of the links between psychological resilience and sleep quality in healthy brains remain not well understood. To address these issues, we adopted the method of resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) analysis in 144 young college students. The functional connectivity analysis indicated that psychological resilience was associated with the middle frontal gryus (MFG) functional connectivity, which mainly involved the right middle cingulum gyrus (rMCG), the right precentral gyrus (rPreCG), the left postcentral gyrus (lPoCG), and the left thalamus. Furthermore, mediation analysis suggested that psychological resilience played a mediating role in the relationship between MFG functional connectivity and sleep quality. Overall, the current study offered further evidence for the neurological underpinnings of psychological resilience and provided new insights into the relationship between psychological resilience and sleep quality from a neural basis perspective.

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This work was supported by the Education Project of National Social Science Foundation of China: The evolutionary trajectory, influencing factors and coping strategies of adolescent sleep quality in the context of healthy China (Grant No. BBA220199).

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    Yan Shi, Youling Bai, Li Zhang, Yang Chen, Xiaoyi Liu, Yunpeng Liu & Huazhan Yin

  2. Cognition and Human Behavior Key Laboratory of Hunan Province, Hunan Normal University, Chang Sha, 410081, China

    Yan Shi, Youling Bai, Li Zhang, Yang Chen, Xiaoyi Liu, Yunpeng Liu & Huazhan Yin

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Yan Shi and Youling Bai conducted the studies, Yan Shi, Youling Bai, Li Zhang and, YangChen collected and analyzed the data. Yan Shi, Youling Bai, Li Zhang, YangChen, Xiaoyi Liu, Yunpeng Liu, and HuanzhanYin prepared and revised the manuscript.

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Shi, Y., Bai, Y., Zhang, L. et al. Psychological resilience mediates the association of the middle frontal gyrus functional connectivity with sleep quality. Brain Imaging and Behavior 16, 2735–2743 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-022-00735-5

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