Framing the meaning of COVID-19 and the psychological responses to it: Insights gleaned from selected theoretical approaches

Gouzman, Julia; Soskolne, Varda; Dekel, Rachel

doi:10.1177/13591053221079178

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“…In contrast, COVID-19 has fueled research interest in not only psychopathological symptoms, but also pandemic-related worries and fears. Although early COVID-19 researchers considered different strain constructs (e.g., fear, trauma) as if they were interchangeable, it is important to distinguish between COVID-19 distress and mental illness, which represent conceptually distinct parts of the stress-response experience (see Gouzman et al, 2022). For example, compared to depression, fear may be a more proximal outcome of pandemic-related stressors.…”

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Fear and Trembling While Working in a Pandemic: an Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Workers’ COVID-19 Distress

2022

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The global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of workers and taken its toll on health and well-being. In line with recent calls for more inductive and abductive occupational health science research, we exploratorily meta-analyzed workers’ COVID-19 distress, defined as psychological and psychosomatic strain contextualized to experiencing the virus and pandemic broadly. We identified many existing COVID-19 distress measures (e.g., Fear of COVID-19 Scale by Ahorsu et al., International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction , 2020 ; Coronavirus Anxiety Scale by Lee, Death Studies, 44 (7), 393–401, 2020a ) and correlates, including demographic variables (viz., gender, marital status, whether worker has children), positive well-being (e.g., quality of life, perceived social support, resilience), negative well-being (e.g., anxiety, depression, sleep problems), and work-related variables (e.g., job satisfaction, burnout, task performance). Additionally, we found preliminary evidence of subgroup differences by COVID-19 distress measure and country-level moderation moderators (viz., cultural values, pandemic-related government response) as well as COVID-19 distress’s incremental validity over and above anxiety and depression. The findings—based on k = 135 independent samples totaling N = 61,470 workers—were abductively contextualized with existing theories and previous research. We also call for future research to address the grand challenge of working during the COVID-19 pandemic and ultimately develop a cumulative occupational health psychology of pandemics. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41542-022-00131-x.

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Fear and Trembling While Working in a Pandemic: an Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Workers’ COVID-19 Distress

2022

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic could be seen as a traumatic event, given the acute and chronic threats it has posed (Sanchez-Gomez et al, 2021). Criterion A of the DSM-5 (the event criterion) and the four clusters of post-trauma symptoms and functioning (Criteria B, C, D, and E) all align with the recognition of COVID-19 as a traumatic event (Gouzman, Soskolne & Dekel, 2022). In other words, COVID-19 comprises exposure to actual or threatened death, and evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reactions has already accumulated.…”

Section: The Ecological Model Of Trauma and Recovery And Covid-19 Amo...mentioning

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COVID-19 pandemic among adults with intellectual disabilities: Implementing a social model of disability in crisis and trauma situations

Gouzman

Soskolne

Dekel

2023

J Intellect Disabil

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A growing body of evidence has attested to the higher impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs) than on members of the general population during the pandemic, mainly showing their higher vulnerability. However, we believe it is important to better understand how their situation interacts with the specific circumstances of the pandemic. In this article we discuss recent findings regarding individuals with IDs through the lens of two theories – the social disability model and the ecological model of trauma and recovery – and propose an integration, namely a social model of disability in crisis and trauma situations. Such a model allows for a wider perspective on understanding the way people living with disabilities (PLWDs) cope in these situations, integrating the individual aspects of coping with the social and environmental ones.

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“…The scientific literature highlighted their greater vulnerability to infection and serious clinical outcomes, focusing almost only on negative aspects like depression, psychological distress, loneliness. Not considering the phenomenon in its entirety may also have been due to the need for data to better study the complexity of the dynamics behind the pandemic (Gouzman et al, 2022). However, this trend has changed, studies have emerged that consider the Covid phenomenon widely, with both negative and positive aspects.…”

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“…The Covid-19 pandemic, especially in its initial period, could be analyzed as a significant, negative event or mass trauma (Gouzman et al, 2022). According to Olson et al (2020), experiencing trauma makes people tend to re-assess and revise their beliefs about how to cope with life.…”

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Stemming the “ageism pandemic”: A qualitative inquiry with older adults in residential care facilities during the Covid-19 outbreak

Bellanova,

Romaioli,

Contarello

2023

J Health Psychol

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The Covid-19 pandemic added to collective concerns, making health risks salient especially for the older population. The health emergency exacerbated an already widespread negative representation of aging, and phenomena such as ageism. With the present qualitative inquiry, 21 episodic interviews were collected with the aim of understanding the experience of older adults in residential care facilities, exploring their ideas of aging and the viewpoints that helped them to respond to the pandemic successfully. A thematic analysis was conducted using NudIst software. The results show that participants described multiple personal and relational resources they used to cope with the pandemic, and they were able to express counter-narratives to the ideas of aging as coinciding with decline, and of lockdown as a source of distress alone. The paper concludes with reflections on the relevance of research capable of challenging unhelpful dominant discourses and averting the risk of them turning into negative prophecies.

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Framing the meaning of COVID-19 and the psychological responses to it: Insights gleaned from selected theoretical approaches

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Fear and Trembling While Working in a Pandemic: an Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Workers’ COVID-19 Distress

Fear and Trembling While Working in a Pandemic: an Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Workers’ COVID-19 Distress

COVID-19 pandemic among adults with intellectual disabilities: Implementing a social model of disability in crisis and trauma situations

Stemming the “ageism pandemic”: A qualitative inquiry with older adults in residential care facilities during the Covid-19 outbreak

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