ArticleJournal of happiness studies2021
Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress-Related Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a National Representative Sample: The Role of Positive Core Beliefs About the World and Others.
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85 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Positive Psychology: Looking Back and Looking Forward.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- Prolonged exposure to a public health event: the mediating role of resilience between social support and post-traumatic growth among frontline nurses.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Fear of COVID-19, traumatic growth, and traumatic stress symptoms: the mediating role of basic psychological needs.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Growing through adversity: the relation of early childhood educator post-traumatic growth to young children's executive function.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Given the need to understand both the negative and positive psychological consequences of the current global COVID-19 pandemic (Brewin et al. in Perspectives in Public Health 10.1177/1757913920957365 2020), the aim of this study was to test a cognitive model of post-traumatic symptoms (PTS) and post-traumatic growth (PTG) during confinement caused by the SARS-COV-2 epidemic. In line with cognitive models of trauma elaboration (Park in Psychological Bulletin 10.1037/a0018301), we included in our model some beliefs associated to the world (e.g., primal beliefs about a good world), to the self (e.g., death anxiety or orientation toward the future) and to others (e.g., suspiciousness or identification with humanity). To evaluate the explanatory model, a national representative sample of adults between the ages of 18 and 75 (N = 1951) was surveyed between 7th and 13th April, 2020, in the middle of a strict 7-week national confinement. Structural equation modelling yielded a very similar model to the one initially specified. The results highlight the role of both negative and positive core beliefs, which are pertinent to the current pandemic threat, in the appearance of PTS and PTG, respectively. In short, primal beliefs about a good world, openness to the future and identification with humanity were associated with PTG; while suspiciousness, intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety about death and also identification with humanity were associated with PTS and consequent impairment. This is an innovative study of different pathways to traumatic responses and growth during a pandemic. Future research is needed to replicate its findings.
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