Samios Christina, Praskova Anna, Radlinska Basia
Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia.
Discipline of Psychology, Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney, Australia.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2022 Jan;35(1):9-24. doi: 10.1080/10615806.2021.1974408. Epub 2021 Sep 13.
The stress people experience in relation to a highly stressful event, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can undermine their sense of meaning in life. This study examined the relationship between COVID-19 pandemic-related stress and meaning in life and whether self-compassion and savoring positive emotional experience moderated this relationship.
Participants ( = 498) completed measures of pandemic-related stress, dimensions of meaning in life (comprehension, purpose, mattering), self-compassion (self-kindness, common humanity, mindfulness), and savoring (savoring through anticipation, savoring the moment, savoring through reminiscence).
Results of regression analyses showed that pandemic-related stress related to less meaning in life and that all dimensions of self-compassion and savoring (with the exception of savoring through reminiscence) related positively to a dimension of meaning in life. Only common humanity buffered the relationship between pandemic-related stress and a dimension of meaning in life (purpose) as expected. Unexpectedly, for people high on common humanity the relationship between pandemic-related stress and mattering was positive, and for people high on mindfulness, the relationship between pandemic-related stress and comprehension was negative.
Although cross-sectional, this study's findings suggest that promoting common humanity might be important for protecting purpose and enhancing one's sense of mattering during a pandemic.
人们在面对诸如新冠疫情这种高压力事件时所经历的压力，可能会削弱他们的生活意义感。本研究考察了与新冠疫情相关的压力和生活意义之间的关系，以及自我同情和品味积极情绪体验是否调节了这种关系。
参与者（n = 498）完成了与疫情相关压力、生活意义维度（理解、目的、重要性）、自我同情（自我友善、共通人性、正念）以及品味（通过预期品味、品味当下、通过回忆品味）的测量。
回归分析结果显示，与疫情相关的压力与较低的生活意义相关，自我同情和品味的所有维度（通过回忆品味除外）与生活意义的一个维度呈正相关。正如预期的那样，只有共通人性缓冲了与疫情相关的压力和生活意义维度（目的）之间的关系。出乎意料的是，对于共通人性得分高的人来说，与疫情相关的压力和重要性之间的关系是正向的，而对于正念得分高的人来说，与疫情相关的压力和理解之间的关系是负向的。
尽管本研究为横断面研究，但其结果表明，在疫情期间，促进共通人性对于保护目的感和增强重要性意识可能很重要。
