Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Social Work, Ankara University , Ankara, Turkey.
Oltu Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Social Work, Atatürk University , Erzurum, Turkey.
Soc Work Public Health. 2020 Sep 1;35(7):603-616. doi: 10.1080/19371918.2020.1808144.
The uncertainty which is threatening and stressful prevents a person's perception of control and leads to maladaptive psychological reactions such as anxiety. We aimed to define the relationship between the state/trait anxiety levels and perceived social support in the COVID-19 pandemic as a global crisis and stressor. Our main hypothesis was that perceived social support would negatively affect the levels of anxiety. A cross-sectional community-based study was carried out using the relational screening model. The data were collected between March 20 and April 15, 2020, by using an online survey (N = 630). Anxiety levels of individuals, particularly the state anxiety were high during the pandemic. Also, perceived social support and state/trait anxiety levels were analyzed for various variable categories. Anxiety levels decreased significantly when perceived social support increased. Perceived social support as a determinant of state and trait anxiety should be the focus of social work practices in this period.
在全球危机和应激源 COVID-19 大流行期间，威胁和压力造成的不确定性会阻碍一个人对控制感的感知，并导致焦虑等适应不良的心理反应。我们旨在确定状态/特质焦虑水平与感知社会支持之间的关系。我们的主要假设是感知社会支持会对焦虑水平产生负面影响。采用关系筛选模型进行了一项基于社区的横断面研究。数据于 2020 年 3 月 20 日至 4 月 15 日通过在线调查（N=630）收集。在大流行期间，个体的焦虑水平，特别是状态焦虑水平较高。此外，还分析了感知社会支持以及状态/特质焦虑水平在各种变量类别中的情况。当感知社会支持增加时，焦虑水平显著下降。在这个时期，感知社会支持作为状态和特质焦虑的决定因素，应该是社会工作实践的重点。
