Exploring factors associated with personal recovery in bipolar disorder

Background Personal recovery is increasingly recognized as important outcome for people with bipolar disorder (BD), but research addressing associated factors of personal recovery in this group remains scarce. This study aimed to explore the association of sociodemographic variables, social participation, psychopathology, and positive emotion regulation with personal recovery in BD. Methods Baseline data from a randomized controlled trial and survey data were combined (N = 209) and split into a training (n = 149) and test sample (n = 60). Block‐wise regression analyses and model training were used to determine the most relevant predictors. The final parsimonious model was cross‐validated in the test sample. Results In the final parsimonious model, satisfaction with social roles (β = .442, p