Distress and Prevention Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among College Students: the Moderating Role of Resilience
| العنوان: | Distress and Prevention Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among College Students: the Moderating Role of Resilience |
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| المؤلفون: | Anthony Vander Horst, T. A. Kuhn, Christopher J. Woolverton, Cynthia Hunt, Craig Wawrosch, Kimberly A. Cleveland, Joel W. Hughes, Gregory Gibson |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Universities, Brief Report, COVID-19, Regression analysis, Resilience, Psychological, Affect (psychology), Moderation, Health psychology, Distress, Scale (social sciences), Pandemic, Humans, Students, Resilience (network), Psychology, Pandemics, Stress, Psychological, Applied Psychology, Clinical psychology |
| الوصف: | Background Pandemics can generate considerable distress, which can affect prevention behaviors. Resilience may buffer the negative effects of distress on engagement in relevant prevention behaviors, which may also hold true for COVID-19 prevention behaviors. The objective of the current study was to evaluate whether resilience moderated the relationship between distress and COVID-19 prevention behaviors early in the pandemic. Methods Data were collected via surveys in which all students at a large midwestern university were emailed invitations beginning March 18, 2020. Surveys were completed by 5,530 individuals. In addition to demographic questions and items about COVID-19 prevention behaviors, distress was assessed using the K6 Distress Scale and resilience using the Brief Resilience Scale. Data were analyzed using moderator regression analysis. Results Resilience moderates the effects from distress to prevention behaviors, such that the relationship was stronger for individuals with higher resilience than for individuals with lower resilience. When resilience was one standard deviation below the mean, at the mean value of resilience, and when resilience was one standard deviation above the mean, there was a significant positive relationship between distress and COVID-19 prevention behaviors. However, the relationship was strongest for those with high resilience, and lowest for those with low resilience. Conclusions In the current sample, resilience appeared to influence the strength of the relationship between distress and COVID-19 prevention behaviors. Having higher resilience may promote positive adaptation to distress, leading individuals to engage in a greater number of disease-related prevention behaviors. Future research should examine this relationship longitudinally and in relation to differing constructs of resilience. |
| تدمد: | 1532-7558 1070-5503 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::5d37fb8fc1fcdb30f8995c8703693244 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-021-10034-w |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....5d37fb8fc1fcdb30f8995c8703693244 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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