Arslan Gökmen, Yıldırım Murat, Karataş Zeynep, Kabasakal Zekavet, Kılınç Mustafa
Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.
International Network on Personal Meaning, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Int J Ment Health Addict. 2022;20(2):930-942. doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00416-8. Epub 2020 Nov 3.
Maintaining positive mental health can be challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic which undoubtedly caused devastating consequences on people's lives. There is need to determine factors contributing to mental health of people during the pandemic. The current study aims to examine the effect of meaning in life on complete mental health, which represents the presence of positive functioning and the absence of psychopathological symptoms. The participants of the study included 392 (70.9% female) undergraduate students, ranging in age from 18 to 43 years ( = 20.67 years, = 3.66) and they have predominantly been imposed stay-at-home orders for coronavirus right after announcement of COVID-19 restrictions in Turkey. Latent variable path analyses demonstrated significant paths from meaning in life to all components of psychological distress, positive mental health, and subjective well-being. Multi-group analysis showed significant gender differences across the study variables. These findings corroborate the critical role of meaning in life in promoting complete mental health and shed further light on why people high in meaning in life tend to have better mental health than those low in meaning in life within the context of COVID-19.
在新冠疫情期间，保持积极的心理健康颇具挑战，这场疫情无疑给人们的生活带来了毁灭性后果。有必要确定在疫情期间影响人们心理健康的因素。当前的研究旨在考察生活意义对整体心理健康的影响，整体心理健康代表着积极功能的存在以及心理病理症状的缺失。该研究的参与者包括392名本科生（70.9%为女性），年龄在18岁至43岁之间（平均年龄=20.67岁，标准差=3.66），在土耳其宣布新冠疫情限制措施后，他们大多被要求居家隔离。潜在变量路径分析表明，从生活意义到心理困扰、积极心理健康和主观幸福感的所有组成部分都存在显著路径。多组分析显示，在研究变量方面存在显著的性别差异。这些发现证实了生活意义在促进整体心理健康方面的关键作用，并进一步揭示了在新冠疫情背景下，为什么生活意义高的人往往比生活意义低的人心理健康状况更好。
