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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The Impact of Stigma of Loneliness on Psychological Distress in Older Adults: The Chain Mediating Effect.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- The relationships of character strengths with job stress, mental wellbeing and perceived stress among financial professionals.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Coping with Coronavirus Pandemic: Risk Perception Predicts Life Optimism.Journal of happiness studies · 2023Article
- Resilience and Wellbeing Strategies for Pandemic Fatigue in Times of Covid-19.International journal of applied positive psychology · 2023Review
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- Well-being, character strengths, and depression in emerging adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Character Strengths' Change During COVID-19.Journal of happiness studies · 2023Article
- Determinants of Residential Satisfaction During the Initial Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Xiangyang City, China.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Adaptability favors positive academic responses and posttraumatic growth under COVID-19: a longitudinal study with adolescents.European journal of psychology of education = Journal europeen de psychologie de l'education · 2022Article
- Assessment of mental health of medical personnel during COVID-19: insights from Pakistan.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic upon Chinese Positive Traits.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Character strengths as protective factors against behavior problems in early adolescent.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2022Article
- The positive and negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective well-being and changes in social inequality: Evidence from prefectures in Japan.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- The Relationship Among Spirituality, Self-Efficacy, COVID-19 Anxiety, and Hopelessness During the COVID-19 Process in Turkey: A Path Analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Through the Second Wave: Analysis of the Psychological and Perceptive Changes in the Italian Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- How Communication Technology Fosters Individual and Social Wellbeing During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Support For a Digital Interaction Model.Journal of happiness studies · 2022Article
- Does Gratitude Promote Resilience During a Pandemic? An Examination of Mental Health and Positivity at the Onset of COVID-19.Journal of happiness studies · 2022Article
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Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic obliged people around the world to stay home and self-isolate, with a number of negative psychological consequences. This study focuses on the protective role of character strengths in sustaining mental health and self-efficacy during lockdown. Data were collected from 944 Italian respondents (mean age = 37.24 years, SD = 14.50) by means of an online survey investigating character strengths, psychological distress and Covid-19-related self-efficacy one month after lockdown began. Using principal component analysis, four strengths factors were extracted, namely transcendence, interpersonal, openness and restraint. Regression models with second-order factors showed that transcendence strengths had a strong inverse association with psychological distress, and a positive association with self-efficacy. Regression models with single strengths identified hope, zest, prudence, love and forgiveness as the strengths most associated with distress, love and zest as the most related to self-efficacy and zest to general mental health. Openness factor and appreciation of beauty showed an unexpected direct relation with psychological distress. These results provide original evidence of the association of character strengths, and transcendence strengths in particular, with mental health and self-efficacy in a pandemic and are discussed within the field of positive psychology.
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