The Effect of Perceived Threat Avoidability of COVID-19 on Coping Strategies and Psychic Anxiety Among Chinese College Students in the Early Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic

Wu, Jinnan; Zheng, Yelianghui; Xiong, Shankuo; Zhang, Wenpei; Guo, Shanshan

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2022.854698

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“…In this sample, wishful thinking proved to increase dissociative experiences overall, and all its subscales through the mediation of perceived stress, and had a direct increasing effect on absorption and depersonalization. Wu et al [75] found the same adverse effect when examining effects of COVID-specific wishful thinking of Chinese university students and found that wishful thinking strategy increased anxiety and also prevented students from adaptive protective behaviors.…”

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Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dis-sociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kolozsvári¹,

Rekenyi²,

Garbóczy³

et al. 2023

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Background: Our study aimed to examine how modulating variables such as social support, health anxiety, coping, gender, being separated from home, and lockdown can modify or amplify the effect of perceived stress as a starting variable in the point of view of the output variable, dissociation. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in online form at two points in time: the beginning and the later stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: We received a total of 1711 responses. Perceived stress moderately correlated with dissociation in both International and Hungarian samples. Health anxiety showed a strong direct and indirect correlation with dissociation. Regarding social support, the support of family significantly decreased the dissociative experiences in the Hungarian sample through mediating the stress and directly as well. In the international sample, the goal-oriented coping strategy had a strong decreasing effect on all dissociation scales in the first measurement, through mediation of perceived stress. As to the Hungarian sample, positive thinking was found to decrease dissociation through decreasing perceived stress. Conclusion: The cause and effect relationship between stress and dissociation may be tinctured by health anxiety, coping and social support, influencing dissociacion directly and indirectly. Social support, mainly support of the family and problem-focused coping strategies seem to alleviate dissociation-provoking effect of stress.

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confidence: 80%

Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dis-sociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kolozsvári¹,

Rekenyi²,

Garbóczy³

et al. 2023

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“…In this sample, wishful thinking proved to increase dissociative experiences overall, and in all its subscales through the mediation of perceived stress, and had a direct increasing effect on absorption and depersonalization. Wu et al [ 81 ] found the same adverse effect when examining the effects of COVID-specific wishful thinking of Chinese university students and found that the wishful thinking strategy increased anxiety and also prevented students from adaptive protective behaviors.…”

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confidence: 88%

Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dissociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kolozsvári

Rekenyi

Garbóczy

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Background: Our study aimed to examine whether health anxiety, social support, and ways of coping relate to dissociation directly or only through the mediation of perceived stress, moderated by the time of measurement (lockdown). We investigated the effect of perceived stress on different forms (sub-scales) of dissociation. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted by an online form at two points in time: the beginning and the later stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: We received a total of 1711 responses. Perceived stress moderately correlated with dissociation in both international and Hungarian samples. Health anxiety showed a strong direct and indirect correlation with dissociation. Regarding social support, the support of family significantly decreased the dissociative experiences in the Hungarian sample mediated by perceived and direct stress. In the international sample, goal-oriented coping strategies strongly decreased all dissociation scales in the first measurement, through the mediation of perceived stress. As for the Hungarian sample, positive thinking was found to decrease dissociation by decreasing perceived stress. Conclusion: health anxiety, coping, and social support appeared to influence dissociation directly and through the mediation of perceived stress. Social support, mainly support of the family and problem-focused coping strategies may decrease the level of stress, this way decreasing dissociative behavior.

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“…Using wishful thinking as a coping strategy means that participants fantasize a better future while avoiding or suppressing thoughts about the pandemic reality that is simply too overwhelming to deal with. However, despite the initial intent of reducing stress, wishful thinking has found to increase people’s level of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic instead (Wu et al, 2022 ).…”

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Who do we trust and how do we cope with COVID-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Based upon a mixed-methods follow-up exploratory model, we examined the link between trust and coping during the early outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic at the society level. Qualitative data were collected from the supportive messages written by 10,072 community adults across 35 societies. Trust and coping were used as the two pre-defined themes in the conceptual content analysis. Five subthemes emerged from the theme trust, depicting five distinct trusted targets: God, a larger us, country/government, science/healthcare, and the affected. Six subthemes emerged from the theme coping, depicting six distinct coping strategies: interpersonal/social coping, religious/spiritual coping, acceptance, blame, wishful thinking, and strength-based coping. A follow-up quantitative investigation also showed that four society-level factors (viz., individualism, cultural tightness, globalization, and severity of pandemic) had differential effects on people’s trusted targets and ways of coping with the pandemic. Our study made both methodological and practical contributions to cross-cultural research on COVID-19 by using a mixed-methods approach in a multinational study and demonstrating the importance of making meaningful virtual connection during a time of physical distancing.

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The Effect of Perceived Threat Avoidability of COVID-19 on Coping Strategies and Psychic Anxiety Among Chinese College Students in the Early Stage of COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 3 publications

References 70 publications

Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dis-sociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dis-sociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dissociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Who do we trust and how do we cope with COVID-19? A mixed-methods sequential exploratory approach to understanding supportive messages across 35 cultures

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