Arslan Gökmen, Yıldırım Murat
Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.
International Network on Personal Meaning, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2021 Apr 28;12:645597. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645597. eCollection 2021.
The coronavirus disease possesses an important threat to people's health and well-being. The purpose of the present study is to longitudinally examine whether meaning in life before the pandemic increases resilience and mental well-being during the coronavirus pandemic. The sample of the study comprised 172 young adults (72% women) in a public university in an urban city of Turkey. Participants ranged in age between 18 and 40 years ( = 20.87, = 3.92). Mediation analyses were performed to examine the impacts of meaning in life on the outcomes across the two waves of data. Findings from these analyses revealed that meaning in life before the pandemic had a significant predictive effect on resilience and mental well-being of young adults during the coronavirus disease. Resilience also mediated the impacts of meaning in life on mental well-being indicators at the second time. These results suggest the importance of meaning-based preventions and interventions designed to build up resilience experiences for improving psychological health and well-being during a public health crisis.
冠状病毒病对人们的健康和幸福构成了重大威胁。本研究的目的是纵向考察疫情大流行前的生活意义是否能增强在冠状病毒大流行期间的心理韧性和心理健康。该研究的样本包括土耳其一个城市的一所公立大学的172名年轻人（72%为女性）。参与者年龄在18至40岁之间（平均年龄=20.87，标准差=3.92）。进行中介分析以考察生活意义对两波数据结果的影响。这些分析的结果表明，疫情大流行前的生活意义对年轻人在冠状病毒病期间的心理韧性和心理健康具有显著的预测作用。心理韧性在第二次测量时也介导了生活意义对心理健康指标的影响。这些结果表明，在公共卫生危机期间，基于意义的预防和干预措施对于积累心理韧性体验以改善心理健康和幸福的重要性。
