In recent years, young adults have navigated multiple, simultaneous crises - COVID-19, war in Ukraine, economic turbulence, climate change, and rapid AI growth - which pose complex mental-health risks Show more
In recent years, young adults have navigated multiple, simultaneous crises - COVID-19, war in Ukraine, economic turbulence, climate change, and rapid AI growth - which pose complex mental-health risks. Drawing on multisystemic resilience models and the dual-factor model of mental health, we examine how individual (emotion-regulation difficulties), relational (attachment, social support), and contextual resources (social engagement, place attachment, socioeconomic status) relate to distinct emotional-response profiles and their change across three waves (July 2023, February 2024, September 2024) in a representative Polish sample ( The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12992-026-01199-8. Show less