Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19

Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and consequent confinement measures, young people are vulnerable to mental health problems. The current study compared a group of 440 young adolescents (10–12 years) and a group of 330 emerging adults (18–25 years) to investigat...

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Autores principales: Cao, Shiyue, Zhu, Yue, Li, Pei, Zhang, Wei, Ding, Cody, Yang, Dong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8905441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35282222
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.801241
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author Cao, Shiyue
Zhu, Yue
Li, Pei
Zhang, Wei
Ding, Cody
Yang, Dong
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description Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and consequent confinement measures, young people are vulnerable to mental health problems. The current study compared a group of 440 young adolescents (10–12 years) and a group of 330 emerging adults (18–25 years) to investigate the extent to which perceived social support and psychological capital (PsyCap) were differentially associated with mental health problems. Participants were asked to report their current psychosocial adaptation status during the COVID-19 pandemic, and data were collected via online questionnaires during a relatively severe period of COVID-19 in China. Results of the multi-group path analysis indicated that the effect of perceived social support on mental health problems was mediated by PsyCap for young adolescents, but not for emerging adults. These results were discussed with respect to the mechanism of how social support and PsyCap serve as protective mental health factors for youth in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-89054412022-03-10 Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19 Cao, Shiyue Zhu, Yue Li, Pei Zhang, Wei Ding, Cody Yang, Dong Front Psychol Psychology Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and consequent confinement measures, young people are vulnerable to mental health problems. The current study compared a group of 440 young adolescents (10–12 years) and a group of 330 emerging adults (18–25 years) to investigate the extent to which perceived social support and psychological capital (PsyCap) were differentially associated with mental health problems. Participants were asked to report their current psychosocial adaptation status during the COVID-19 pandemic, and data were collected via online questionnaires during a relatively severe period of COVID-19 in China. Results of the multi-group path analysis indicated that the effect of perceived social support on mental health problems was mediated by PsyCap for young adolescents, but not for emerging adults. These results were discussed with respect to the mechanism of how social support and PsyCap serve as protective mental health factors for youth in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8905441/ /pubmed/35282222 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.801241 Text en Copyright © 2022 Cao, Zhu, Li, Zhang, Ding and Yang. 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.
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Zhu, Yue
Li, Pei
Zhang, Wei
Ding, Cody
Yang, Dong
Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19
title Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19
title_full Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19
title_fullStr Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19
title_short Age Difference in Roles of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Capital on Mental Health During COVID-19
title_sort age difference in roles of perceived social support and psychological capital on mental health during covid-19
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8905441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35282222
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.801241
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