dc.creator | Quiroga Garza, Angélica | es |
dc.creator | Cepeda López, Ana Carla | es |
dc.creator | Villarreal Zambrano, Sofía | es |
dc.creator | Villalobos Daniel, Víctor E. | es |
dc.creator | Fernández Carreño, David | es |
dc.creator | Eisenbeck, Nikolett | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-09T15:19:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-09T15:19:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Quiroga Garza, A., Cepeda López, A.C., Villarreal Zambrano, S., Villalobos Daniel, V.E., Fernández Carreño, D. y Eisenbeck, N. (2021). How having a clear why can help us cope with almost anything: meaningful well-being and the COVID-19 pandemic in México. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 648069. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1664-1078 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/136953 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in an increase in known risk factors for mental health problems. Mexico adopted lockdown and physical distancing as a containment strategy with potential consequences on day to day life, such as social isolation, loss of income and loneliness that can have important consequences in terms of mental health. Objective: We aimed to examine the effect of the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological distress, well-being and perceived physical health among Mexican-base respondents and to examine whether coping strategies would play a potential intermediating role in relation to these variables. Under the Existential Positive Psychology perspective, an emphasis was made on meaning-centered coping. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between April 30 and June 16th 2020 among 604 Mexicans-base respondents of which 471 were women and 132 men. Data was collected by using online questionnaires. Psychological distress was measured using the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The Brief COPE Inventory was used to assess problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies. We also used the Meaning-Centered Coping Scale (MCCS). PERMA-Profiler was used to assess well-being, perceived physical health, and loneliness. Profiler and Descriptive analyses and bivariate linear regression were performed to examine the association of variables. Results: 45.9% of the participants reported moderate to extremely severe psychological distress. Our results demonstrate that problem-focused and emotion-focused coping were positively related to psychological distress, whereas meaning-centered coping was negatively associated with distress. Furthermore, psychological distress played a potential negative role in the perceived physical health, while meaning-centered coping and well-being buffered the negative influence of psychological distress on perceived physical health (completely standardized indirect effect = –0.01, SE: 0.012, 95% CI [−0.065; −0.017]. Conclusion: Meaning-centered coping was found to suppress the negative influence of psychological distress on sensation of decreased physical health corroborating the critical role of meaning in life in promoting well-being. Future studies can further examine the value of the critical role of meaning in life in promoting well-being as a protective factor against severe distress during traumatic events. Findings of this study can be used to orient policies and interventions aimed to alleviate suffering in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. | es |
dc.format.extent | 10 p. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Frontiers Media | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 648069. | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | wellbeing | es |
dc.subject | psychological distress | es |
dc.subject | coping strategies | es |
dc.subject | COVID-19 pandemic | es |
dc.subject | perceived physical health | es |
dc.subject | meaning-centered coping | es |
dc.title | How having a clear why can help us cope with almost anything: meaningful well-being and the COVID-19 pandemic in México | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648069 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648069 | es |
dc.journaltitle | Frontiers in Psychology | es |
dc.publication.volumen | 12 | es |
dc.publication.initialPage | Article 648069 | es |