Exploring the associations between resilience, dispositional hope, preventive behaviours, subjective well-being, and psy
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Exploring the associations between resilience, dispositional hope, preventive behaviours, subjective well-being, and psychological health among adults during early stage of COVID-19 Murat Yıldırım 1,2
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Gökmen Arslan 3
Accepted: 6 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract During the pandemic, people may experience various mental health problems. Psychological strengths may help them to cope with emerging challenges and foster mental health and well-being. This study examined the associations between resilience, dispositional hope, preventive behaviours, subjective well-being, and psychological health among adults during early stage of COVID-19. A total of 220 participants from general public participated this study completing a battery of measures (134 men [M age = 42.36 years, SD = 8.99, range = 18 to 60] and 86 women [M age = 36.73 years, SD = 7.44, range = 18 to 51]). This crosssection study indicated that resilience mediated the relationship between hope and psychological health and subjective wellbeing. Results also showed that hope, and resilience had significant direct effects on psychological health, and subjective wellbeing while preventive behaviours did not manifest a significant effect on these two variables except on resilience. Preventive behaviours mediated the relationship between hope and resilience. The results suggest that we should more pay attention to hope and resilience for the development and improvement of well-being and psychological health during the times of crisis. Keywords Hope . Resilience . Preventive behaviours . Subjective well-being . Psychological health . COVID-19
The emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID19) has been connected to the Wuhan city in the province of Hubei, China. The first case of patient suffering from COVID19 dated back to 17 November 2019 (The Guardian, 2020). Since the number of cases have been exponentially increasing globally. Currently, the COVID-19 still lacks a vaccine and the estimation of its impact on public health is unpredictable. As of 28 September 2020, there were a total of 33.238.168 confirmed cases and 999.629 deaths of COVID-19 around the world, touching 188 countries/regions (Center for Systems Science and Engineering, 2020). On 11 March 2020, WHO
* Murat Yıldırım [email protected]; [email protected] Gökmen Arslan [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Erzurum Yolu 4 Km 04100, Merkez, Ağrı, Turkey
2
University of Liecester, Liecester, UK
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Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Education, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey
announced that COVID-19 can be characterised as the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus which has serious psychological, social and economic consequences (WHO, 2020a). To control the risk of COVID-19 on public health, WHO (2020b) recommended some measures to be implemented both at the individual-levels (e.g., frequent handwash
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