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Adjustment to a “New Normal:” Coping Flexibility and Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented health crisis in terms of the scope of its impact on well-being. The sudden need to navigate this “new normal” has compromised the mental health of many people. Coping flexibility, defined as the astute deployment of coping strateg...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Cecilia, Wang, Hsin-yi, Ebrahimi, Omid V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8017149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33815166
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.626197
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author Cheng, Cecilia
Wang, Hsin-yi
Ebrahimi, Omid V.
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description The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented health crisis in terms of the scope of its impact on well-being. The sudden need to navigate this “new normal” has compromised the mental health of many people. Coping flexibility, defined as the astute deployment of coping strategies to meet specific situational demands, is proposed as an adaptive quality during this period of upheaval. The present study investigated the associations between coping flexibility and two common mental health problems: COVID-19 anxiety and depression. The respondents were 481 Hong Kong adults (41% men; mean age = 45.09) who took part in a population-based telephone survey conducted from April to May 2020. Self-report data were assessed with the Coping Flexibility Interview Schedule, COVID-19-Related Perception and Anxiety Scale, and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Slightly more than half (52%) of the sample met the criteria for probable depression. Four types of COVID-19 anxiety were identified: anxiety over personal health, others' reactions, societal health, and economic problems. The results consistently revealed coping flexibility to be inversely associated with depression and all four types of COVID-19 anxiety. More importantly, there was a significant interaction between perceived likelihood of COVID-19 infection and coping flexibility on COVID-19 anxiety over personal health. These findings shed light on the beneficial role of coping flexibility in adjusting to the “new normal” amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-80171492021-04-03 Adjustment to a “New Normal:” Coping Flexibility and Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic Cheng, Cecilia Wang, Hsin-yi Ebrahimi, Omid V. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented health crisis in terms of the scope of its impact on well-being. The sudden need to navigate this “new normal” has compromised the mental health of many people. Coping flexibility, defined as the astute deployment of coping strategies to meet specific situational demands, is proposed as an adaptive quality during this period of upheaval. The present study investigated the associations between coping flexibility and two common mental health problems: COVID-19 anxiety and depression. The respondents were 481 Hong Kong adults (41% men; mean age = 45.09) who took part in a population-based telephone survey conducted from April to May 2020. Self-report data were assessed with the Coping Flexibility Interview Schedule, COVID-19-Related Perception and Anxiety Scale, and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Slightly more than half (52%) of the sample met the criteria for probable depression. Four types of COVID-19 anxiety were identified: anxiety over personal health, others' reactions, societal health, and economic problems. The results consistently revealed coping flexibility to be inversely associated with depression and all four types of COVID-19 anxiety. More importantly, there was a significant interaction between perceived likelihood of COVID-19 infection and coping flexibility on COVID-19 anxiety over personal health. These findings shed light on the beneficial role of coping flexibility in adjusting to the “new normal” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8017149/ /pubmed/33815166 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.626197 Text en Copyright © 2021 Cheng, Wang and Ebrahimi. http://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.
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Ebrahimi, Omid V.
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title_fullStr Adjustment to a “New Normal:” Coping Flexibility and Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Adjustment to a “New Normal:” Coping Flexibility and Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Adjustment to a “New Normal:” Coping Flexibility and Mental Health Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort adjustment to a “new normal:” coping flexibility and mental health issues during the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8017149/
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