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Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis
The physical distancing measures necessitated by COVID-19 have resulted in a severe withdrawal from the patterns of daily life, necessitating significantly reduced contact with other people. To many, such withdrawal can be a major cause of distress. But, to some, this sort of withdrawal is an integr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025836/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33841285 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648060 |
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author | Kim, Juensung J. Munroe, Melanie Feng, Zhe Morris, Stephanie Al-Refae, Mohamed Antonacci, Rebecca Ferrari, Michel |
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description | The physical distancing measures necessitated by COVID-19 have resulted in a severe withdrawal from the patterns of daily life, necessitating significantly reduced contact with other people. To many, such withdrawal can be a major cause of distress. But, to some, this sort of withdrawal is an integral part of growth, a pathway to a more enriching life. The present study uses a sequential explanatory QUAN-qual design to investigate whether people who felt that their lives had changed for the better after being forced to engage in physical distancing, what factors predicted such well-being, and how they spent their time to generate this sense of well-being. We invited 614 participants who reported closely following physical distancing recommendations to complete a survey exploring this topic. Our analyses, after controlling for all other variables in the regression model, found a greater positive association between presence of meaning in life, coping style, and self-transcendent wisdom and residualized current well-being accounting for retrospective assessments of well-being prior to physical distancing. An extreme-case content analysis of participants' personal projects found that participants with low self-transcendent wisdom reported more survival-oriented projects (e.g., acquiring groceries or engaging in distracting entertainments), while participants reporting high self-transcendent wisdom reported more projects involving deepening interactions with other people, especially family. Our findings suggest a more nuanced pathway from adversity to a deeper sense of well-being by showing the importance of not merely coping with adversity, but truly transcending it. |
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spelling | pubmed-80258362021-04-08 Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis Kim, Juensung J. Munroe, Melanie Feng, Zhe Morris, Stephanie Al-Refae, Mohamed Antonacci, Rebecca Ferrari, Michel Front Psychol Psychology The physical distancing measures necessitated by COVID-19 have resulted in a severe withdrawal from the patterns of daily life, necessitating significantly reduced contact with other people. To many, such withdrawal can be a major cause of distress. But, to some, this sort of withdrawal is an integral part of growth, a pathway to a more enriching life. The present study uses a sequential explanatory QUAN-qual design to investigate whether people who felt that their lives had changed for the better after being forced to engage in physical distancing, what factors predicted such well-being, and how they spent their time to generate this sense of well-being. We invited 614 participants who reported closely following physical distancing recommendations to complete a survey exploring this topic. Our analyses, after controlling for all other variables in the regression model, found a greater positive association between presence of meaning in life, coping style, and self-transcendent wisdom and residualized current well-being accounting for retrospective assessments of well-being prior to physical distancing. An extreme-case content analysis of participants' personal projects found that participants with low self-transcendent wisdom reported more survival-oriented projects (e.g., acquiring groceries or engaging in distracting entertainments), while participants reporting high self-transcendent wisdom reported more projects involving deepening interactions with other people, especially family. Our findings suggest a more nuanced pathway from adversity to a deeper sense of well-being by showing the importance of not merely coping with adversity, but truly transcending it. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8025836/ /pubmed/33841285 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648060 Text en Copyright © 2021 Kim, Munroe, Feng, Morris, Al-Refae, Antonacci and Ferrari. 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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Kim, Juensung J. Munroe, Melanie Feng, Zhe Morris, Stephanie Al-Refae, Mohamed Antonacci, Rebecca Ferrari, Michel Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis |
title | Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis |
title_full | Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis |
title_fullStr | Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis |
title_short | Personal Growth and Well-Being in the Time of COVID: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis |
title_sort | personal growth and well-being in the time of covid: an exploratory mixed-methods analysis |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025836/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33841285 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648060 |
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