Observational studyJournal of psychiatric research2022
The long-term buffering effect of sense of coherence on psychopathological symptoms during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective observational study.
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- Current evidence and future directions for social and societal resilience factors in response to societal challenges and crises: an overview of systematic reviews and expert rating.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 on emotional and behavioral problems among preschool children: a meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Echoes of ease: Tracing the course of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the aftermath of a pandemic-Insights from a four-year panel study.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Stressful Life Events and Sense of Coherence in College Students: Roles of Coping, Self-Efficacy, and Stress Mindset.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Workers' Psychological Distress During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Outdoor recreation's association with mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2025Article
- A systematic review of individual, social, and societal resilience factors in response to societal challenges and crises.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Sense of coherence, mental health, and hair cortisol concentrations among older people during the COVID -19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The effectiveness of an online short-format Recovery College model: a co-learning model to support mental health.International journal of mental health systems · 2024Article
- Spirituality and anxiety in pastoral care workers and physicians in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Interrelations of resilience factors and their incremental impact for mental health: insights from network modeling using a prospective study across seven timepoints.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- The relationship between pre-surgery self-rated health and changes in functional and mental health in older adults: insights from a prospective observational study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Observational
- The Perceived Stress Scale 2&2: a two-factorial German short version of the Perceived Stress Scale.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
- Adaptive responding to prolonged stress exposure: A binational study on the impact of flexibility on latent profiles of cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- The long-term buffering effect of sense of coherence on psychopathological symptoms during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: A prospective observational study.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Observational
- Sense of Coherence in Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ecuador: Association With Work Engagement, Work Environment and Psychological Distress Factors.International journal of public health · 2022Observational
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is a major chronic stressor affecting all societies and almost all individuals. Consequently, research demonstrated a negative impact of COVID-19 on mental health in parts of the general population. However, not all people are affected equally thus making the identification of resilience factors modulating the pandemic's impact on mental health an important research agenda. One of these factors is sense of coherence (SOC), the key component of the salutogenesis framework. The current study aimed at investigating the long-term relationship between SOC and psychopathological symptoms, and the impact of COVID-19-related rumination as its moderator. The prospective observational study assessed psychopathological symptoms and SOC before the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany (February 2020) and at six critical time points during the pandemic in an online panel (n = 1,479). Bivariate latent change score models and latent growth mixture modeling were used to analyze changes in psychopathological symptoms and SOC along with their interaction and to differentiate trajectories of COVID-19-related rumination. A model allowing for unidirectional coupling from SOC to psychopathological symptoms demonstrated best fit. In the total sample, psychopathological symptoms increased significantly over time. Previous SOC predicted later changes in psychopathological symptoms, whereby a stronger SOC was associated with a decrease in symptoms over time. The same pattern of results was evident in the high-rumination (17.2%) but not in the low-rumination group (82.8%). Our findings demonstrate that SOC is an important predictor and modulator of psychopathological symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in those respondents that ruminate about the pandemic.
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