Molero Jurado María Del Mar, Pérez-Fuentes María Del Carmen, Fernández-Martínez Elena, Martos Martínez África, Gázquez Linares José Jesús
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.
Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of León, León, Spain.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 29;12:606621. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.606621. eCollection 2021.
The worldwide health emergency caused by COVID-19 is a new challenge for humanity which individuals respond to in a diversity of ways. The type of coping people use in such a situation could lead to positive or negative consequences to their health. Our objective was to analyze the use of coping strategies in the general population with attention to sociodemographic variables, and to test the capacity of these strategies for mediating in repercussions on mental health. The 1,160 adults who participated in this study answered the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-S) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). The data were collected in a CAWI (Computer Aided Web Interviewing). The results suggest that the coping strategies they used the most differed depending on sociodemographic characteristics, such as age, sex and education. Furthermore, two mediation models were estimated for positive and negative coping strategies in the relationship between the presence of COVID-19 near them and mental health. The "negative" coping strategies were found to exert an indirect effect as mediators in the impact that COVID-19 positive cases near them had on their health. The consequences to mental health of the impact of coping with adverse situations should not be underestimated and it is important to design programs to educate the population in coping strategies that promote their health.
由新冠病毒引起的全球卫生紧急状况是人类面临的一项新挑战，人们对此有多种应对方式。在这种情况下人们所采用的应对方式可能会对其健康产生积极或消极的影响。我们的目标是分析普通人群应对策略的使用情况，并关注社会人口学变量，同时检验这些策略对心理健康影响的调节能力。参与本研究的1160名成年人回答了认知情绪调节问卷（CERQ-S）和一般健康问卷（GHQ-28）。数据通过计算机辅助网络访谈（CAWI）收集。结果表明，他们最常使用的应对策略因年龄、性别和教育程度等社会人口学特征而异。此外，针对新冠病毒在其身边出现与心理健康之间的关系，我们估计了积极和消极应对策略的两种调节模型。结果发现，“消极”应对策略在其身边新冠病毒阳性病例对他们健康的影响中起到了间接的中介作用。应对不利情况对心理健康的影响不应被低估，设计相关项目来教育民众采用促进健康的应对策略非常重要。
