Morgado Alice Murteira, Cruz Joana, Peixoto Maria Manuela
Escola Secundária José Falcão, Avenida Afonso Henriques, 3000-011 Coimbra, Portugal.
Psychology for Positive Development Research Center (CIPD), Universidade Lusíada (Porto), Lisbon, Portugal.
Curr Psychol. 2023;42(4):3213-3223. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-01676-w. Epub 2021 Apr 1.
Individuals have different ways of coping with crisis. Individual factors, family and contextual features, and community support may influence how individuals feel, think and act during a crisis. COVID-19 was an unexpected pandemic that forced many European countries to take confinement measures and restrict social face to face interactions. This study is an effort to understand how Portuguese residents dealt with the pandemic during the first confinement period, considering different sociodemographic characteristics and trauma exposure perceptions. Five hundred and five adults, between 18 and 79 years old participated in this study via an online self-report assessment protocol. Sociodemographic characteristics such as gender, age, marital status, employment status, and caring responsibilities had an impact on individuals' perceptions regarding their exposure to the pandemic and their quality of life. Perceived exposure to the pandemic was found to predict quality of life in the physical, psychological, and environmental domains. Results have practical implications for European and local policy-making, as well as for targeting psychological interventions for those whose mental health has been negatively affected by the pandemic and for those who may become more affected if confinement measures are implemented again.
每个人应对危机的方式各不相同。个人因素、家庭和环境特征以及社区支持可能会影响人们在危机期间的感受、思考和行为方式。新冠疫情是一场突如其来的大流行病,迫使许多欧洲国家采取隔离措施并限制社交面对面互动。本研究旨在了解葡萄牙居民在首个隔离期是如何应对疫情的,同时考虑不同的社会人口特征和创伤暴露认知。505名年龄在18至79岁之间的成年人通过在线自我报告评估方案参与了本研究。性别、年龄、婚姻状况、就业状况和照顾责任等社会人口特征对个人对疫情暴露情况的认知及其生活质量产生了影响。研究发现,感知到的疫情暴露情况可预测身体、心理和环境领域的生活质量。研究结果对欧洲和地方政策制定具有实际意义,同时也有助于针对那些心理健康受到疫情负面影响的人群以及那些如果再次实施隔离措施可能受影响更大的人群开展心理干预。