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10.3390/ijerph18084143
Title: | Patterns of psychological responses among the public during the early phase of covid-19 : A cross-regional analysis |
Authors: | Chong, Yuen Yu Chien, Wai Tong Cheng, Ho Yu Ļubenko, Jeļena Lamnisos, Demetris Presti, Giovambattista Squatrito, Valeria Constantinou, Marios Nicolaou, Christiana Papacostas, Savvas Aydin, Gökçen Ruiz, Francisco J. Garcia-Martin, Maria B. Obando-Posada, Diana P. Segura-Vargas, Miguel A. Vasiliou, Vasilis S. McHugh, Louise Höfer, Stefan Baban, Adriana Neto, David Dias da Silva, Ana Nunes Monestès, Jean Louis Alvarez-Galvez, Javier Blarrina, Marisa Paez Montesinos, Francisco Salas, Sonsoles Valdivia Őri, Dorottya Kleszcz, Bartosz Lappalainen, Raimo Ivanović, Iva Gosar, David Dionne, Frederick Merwin, Rhonda M. Gloster, Andrew T. Karekla, Maria Kassianos, Angelos P. Psychology Laboratory |
Keywords: | COVID-19;Mental health;Prosociality;Psychological flexibility;Survey;3.3 Health sciences;5.1 Psychology;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database;Pollution;Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health;Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis;SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
Issue Date: | 14-Apr-2021 |
Citation: | Chong , Y Y , Chien , W T , Cheng , H Y , Ļubenko , J , Lamnisos , D , Presti , G , Squatrito , V , Constantinou , M , Nicolaou , C , Papacostas , S , Aydin , G , Ruiz , F J , Garcia-Martin , M B , Obando-Posada , D P , Segura-Vargas , M A , Vasiliou , V S , McHugh , L , Höfer , S , Baban , A , Neto , D D , da Silva , A N , Monestès , J L , Alvarez-Galvez , J , Blarrina , M P , Montesinos , F , Salas , S V , Őri , D , Kleszcz , B , Lappalainen , R , Ivanović , I , Gosar , D , Dionne , F , Merwin , R M , Gloster , A T , Karekla , M & Kassianos , A P 2021 , ' Patterns of psychological responses among the public during the early phase of covid-19 : A cross-regional analysis ' , International journal of environmental research and public health , vol. 18 , no. 8 , 4143 . https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084143 |
Abstract: | This study aimed to compare the mediation of psychological flexibility, prosociality and coping in the impacts of illness perceptions toward COVID-19 on mental health among seven regions. Convenience sampled online survey was conducted between April and June 2020 from 9130 citizens in 21 countries. Illness perceptions toward COVID-19, psychological flexibility, prosociality, coping and mental health, socio-demographics, lockdown-related variables and COVID-19 status were assessed. Results showed that psychological flexibility was the only significant mediator in the relationship between illness perceptions toward COVID-19 and mental health across all regions (all ps = 0.001–0.021). Seeking social support was the significant mediator across subgroups (all ps range = <0.001–0.005) except from the Hong Kong sample (p = 0.06) and the North and South American sample (p = 0.53). No mediation was found for problem-solving (except from the Northern European sample, p = 0.009). Prosociality was the significant mediator in the Hong Kong sample (p =0.016) and the Eastern European sample (p = 0.008). These findings indicate that fostering psychological flexibility may help to mitigate the adverse mental impacts of COVID-19 across regions. Roles of seeking social support, problem-solving and prosociality vary across regions. |
Description: | Funding Information: Funding: The study was supported by the Seeding Research Fund, The Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph18084143 |
ISSN: | 1661-7827 |
Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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