Institute of Pedagogy, The John Paul Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland.
The Graduate School, Gordon College of Education, Haifa 3465415, Israel.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 31;20(3):2515. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032515.
The COVID-19 pandemic presented a global existential social and health challenge, with individuals suffering mentally and psychologically. College and university students are young adults, typically away from their natural support systems; with pandemic-imposed measures such as isolation, they may have been at higher risk of experiencing negative psychological outcomes. The study tested a model in which social support mediated the association between emotional intelligence (EI) and a latent factor representing general mental distress at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in Poland. One hundred and fifty-nine young adults filled in measures of trait EI, psychological and instrumental social support, three distress measures (depression, anxiety, and stress), and demographics. The results supported a model in which psychological social support (but not instrumental social support) mediated the association between trait EI and a factor representing all three distress measures. The results shed light on how individual and social resources work together to help maintain psychological integrity in times of crisis. They add to recent results on the differential effects of psychological-emotional and instrumental social support on distress and well-being.
新冠疫情大流行带来了全球性的生存挑战，给人们的身心健康带来了冲击。大学生正值青年，通常远离他们的天然支持系统；而大流行所采取的隔离措施可能使他们面临更大的负面心理后果的风险。本研究检验了一个模型，其中社会支持在情商（EI）与代表新冠疫情高峰期波兰一般心理困扰的潜在因素之间的关联中起中介作用。159 名年轻人填写了特质情商、心理和工具性社会支持、三种困扰测量（抑郁、焦虑和压力）以及人口统计学信息。结果支持了一个模型，其中心理社会支持（而非工具性社会支持）中介了特质情商与代表所有三种困扰测量的因素之间的关联。研究结果阐明了个体和社会资源如何共同作用，以帮助在危机时期保持心理完整。它们补充了关于心理-情感和工具性社会支持对困扰和幸福感的不同影响的最新结果。
