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Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being
Policy interventions intended to fight COVID-19 forced people to cope with several restrictions on their personal freedom. The present work addressed the question of how people dealt with stressors during a lockdown period and investigated the role of trait mindfulness and its subcomponents in copin...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33531724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110695 |
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author | Götmann, Alexander Bechtoldt, Myriam N. |
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description | Policy interventions intended to fight COVID-19 forced people to cope with several restrictions on their personal freedom. The present work addressed the question of how people dealt with stressors during a lockdown period and investigated the role of trait mindfulness and its subcomponents in coping and mental well-being. We recruited a sample of 93 participants to study coping reactions using a multi-wave study over a period of two-months with 13 measurement points. Multilevel analysis revealed that engagement-related coping such as problem-solving was positively related to well-being; the opposite was true for disengagement coping such as blaming. The mindfulness facet orientation towards experience (being open and accepting experiences without judgment) was negatively related to disengagement coping, while the facet self-regulated attention (awareness of the present moment) was positively related to engagement coping. Self-regulated attention but not orientation towards experience was associated with savoring positive aspects of COVID-related changes over time. Engagement-related coping mediated the effects of trait mindfulness on well-being. The findings point to the differential effects of subcomponents of trait mindfulness in the context of coping and mental well-being. Further implications are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-78431102021-01-29 Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being Götmann, Alexander Bechtoldt, Myriam N. Pers Individ Dif Article Policy interventions intended to fight COVID-19 forced people to cope with several restrictions on their personal freedom. The present work addressed the question of how people dealt with stressors during a lockdown period and investigated the role of trait mindfulness and its subcomponents in coping and mental well-being. We recruited a sample of 93 participants to study coping reactions using a multi-wave study over a period of two-months with 13 measurement points. Multilevel analysis revealed that engagement-related coping such as problem-solving was positively related to well-being; the opposite was true for disengagement coping such as blaming. The mindfulness facet orientation towards experience (being open and accepting experiences without judgment) was negatively related to disengagement coping, while the facet self-regulated attention (awareness of the present moment) was positively related to engagement coping. Self-regulated attention but not orientation towards experience was associated with savoring positive aspects of COVID-related changes over time. Engagement-related coping mediated the effects of trait mindfulness on well-being. The findings point to the differential effects of subcomponents of trait mindfulness in the context of coping and mental well-being. Further implications are discussed. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-06 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7843110/ /pubmed/33531724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110695 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Götmann, Alexander Bechtoldt, Myriam N. Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
title | Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
title_full | Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
title_fullStr | Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
title_full_unstemmed | Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
title_short | Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
title_sort | coping with covid-19 – longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33531724 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110695 |
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