Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need to understand the protective factors that can buffer individuals against psychological distress. We employed a latent-variable approach to examine how control-related factors such as religiosity, self-control, cognitive control, and health locus of co...

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Autores principales: Khoo, Shuna Shiann, Toh, Wei Xing, Yang, Hwajin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34848902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110675
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need to understand the protective factors that can buffer individuals against psychological distress. We employed a latent-variable approach to examine how control-related factors such as religiosity, self-control, cognitive control, and health locus of control can act as resilience resources during stressful periods. We found that cognitive control emerged as a protective factor against COVID-19-related stress, whereas religiosity predicted a heightened level of stress. These results provide novel insights into control factors that can safeguard individuals' psychological well-being during crises such as a pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-86137062021-11-26 Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19 Khoo, Shuna Shiann Toh, Wei Xing Yang, Hwajin Pers Individ Dif Short Communication The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need to understand the protective factors that can buffer individuals against psychological distress. We employed a latent-variable approach to examine how control-related factors such as religiosity, self-control, cognitive control, and health locus of control can act as resilience resources during stressful periods. We found that cognitive control emerged as a protective factor against COVID-19-related stress, whereas religiosity predicted a heightened level of stress. These results provide novel insights into control factors that can safeguard individuals' psychological well-being during crises such as a pandemic. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-06 2021-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8613706/ /pubmed/34848902 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110675 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.
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Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19
title Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19
title_full Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19
title_fullStr Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19
title_short Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19
title_sort seeking control during uncontrollable times: control abilities and religiosity predict stress during covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34848902
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110675
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