Wallis Hannah, Holzen Veronique, Sieverding Theresa, Matthies Ellen, Schmidt Karolin
Medical Faculty, University Clinic of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Department of Environmental Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Front Psychiatry. 2023 Jan 4;13:1009977. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1009977. eCollection 2022.
In crises, it is of great relevance to identify mechanisms that help people to maintain a certain level of wellbeing. This paper investigates whether appraising the COVID-19 pandemic as a threat vs. as a challenge has different effects on subjective wellbeing during the pandemic. Furthermore, we study the role of the perceived local environmental quality for individuals' subjective wellbeing.
online survey study with two times of measurement ( = 758), we investigated (a) the prediction of participants' wellbeing in June 2020 and June 2021 through five variables and (b) how these five variables moderated within-participant differences in subjective wellbeing over time.
Results showed that a stronger perception of the pandemic as a threat (feeling worried) and a lower education in June 2020 predicted a lower subjective wellbeing in 2020 and 2021. A stronger challenge appraisal (feeling confident), higher efficacy expectations, and positive perceptions of the local environmental quality in June 2020 predicted a higher wellbeing in 2020 and 2021. There was no substantial change in participants' aggregated wellbeing over time. However, those who perceived the pandemic more as a threat in June 2020 struggled more with negative changes in their wellbeing, whereas those who perceived the pandemic more as a challenge reported a higher wellbeing.
It seems key to support people in activating positive feelings to successfully cope with crises.
在危机中，识别有助于人们维持一定幸福水平的机制至关重要。本文研究将新冠疫情视为威胁与视为挑战对疫情期间主观幸福感是否有不同影响。此外，我们研究了个体对当地环境质量的认知在其主观幸福感中的作用。
通过一项有两次测量的在线调查研究（n = 758），我们调查了（a）通过五个变量对参与者在2020年6月和2021年6月的幸福感进行预测，以及（b）这五个变量如何调节随时间变化的参与者主观幸福感的个体内差异。
结果表明，2020年6月对疫情更强的威胁感知（感到担忧）和更低的教育水平预示着2020年和2021年较低的主观幸福感。2020年6月更强的挑战评估（感到自信）、更高的效能期望以及对当地环境质量的积极认知预示着2020年和2021年更高的幸福感。随着时间推移，参与者的总体幸福感没有实质性变化。然而，那些在2020年6月将疫情更多地视为威胁的人在幸福感的负面变化方面挣扎得更多，而那些将疫情更多地视为挑战的人报告的幸福感更高。
支持人们激发积极情绪以成功应对危机似乎是关键。
