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The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus
Military personnel encountered multiple stressful events during the COVID-19 lockdown. Reducing non-combat attrition due to mental disorders is crucial for military morale and combat effectiveness. Grounded in stress theory and regulatory focus theory, this study investigates the influence of resili...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10445488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37621610 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1240047 |
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author | Cao, Fei Li, Juan Xin, Wei Yang, Zhibing Wu, Di |
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description | Military personnel encountered multiple stressful events during the COVID-19 lockdown. Reducing non-combat attrition due to mental disorders is crucial for military morale and combat effectiveness. Grounded in stress theory and regulatory focus theory, this study investigates the influence of resilience on military personnel’s mental health; coping style and regulatory focus are considered potential mediators and moderators, respectively. We conducted a routine psychological assessment on 1,110 military personnel in China. The results indicate that: (1) resilience has a negative impact on the psychological symptoms of military groups; (2) mature and mixed coping styles in military personnel mediate the association between resilience and psychological symptoms; and (3) regulatory focus predominance has a negative moderating effect on mature coping styles’ effects on psychological symptoms. Furthermore, this study supports previous findings that resilience and mental health are interrelated; it demonstrates that military personnel can effectively reduce negative psychological symptoms by improving their resilience level and adopting mature coping styles under stressful situations. The current study presents interventional insights regarding coping styles and mental health from a self-regulatory perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-104454882023-08-24 The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus Cao, Fei Li, Juan Xin, Wei Yang, Zhibing Wu, Di Front Public Health Public Health Military personnel encountered multiple stressful events during the COVID-19 lockdown. Reducing non-combat attrition due to mental disorders is crucial for military morale and combat effectiveness. Grounded in stress theory and regulatory focus theory, this study investigates the influence of resilience on military personnel’s mental health; coping style and regulatory focus are considered potential mediators and moderators, respectively. We conducted a routine psychological assessment on 1,110 military personnel in China. The results indicate that: (1) resilience has a negative impact on the psychological symptoms of military groups; (2) mature and mixed coping styles in military personnel mediate the association between resilience and psychological symptoms; and (3) regulatory focus predominance has a negative moderating effect on mature coping styles’ effects on psychological symptoms. Furthermore, this study supports previous findings that resilience and mental health are interrelated; it demonstrates that military personnel can effectively reduce negative psychological symptoms by improving their resilience level and adopting mature coping styles under stressful situations. The current study presents interventional insights regarding coping styles and mental health from a self-regulatory perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10445488/ /pubmed/37621610 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1240047 Text en Copyright © 2023 Cao, Li, Xin, Yang and Wu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Cao, Fei Li, Juan Xin, Wei Yang, Zhibing Wu, Di The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
title | The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
title_full | The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
title_fullStr | The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
title_full_unstemmed | The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
title_short | The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
title_sort | impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the covid-19 pandemic: coping styles and regulatory focus |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10445488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37621610 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1240047 |
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