Association Between Character Strengths and Caregiver Burden: Hope as a Mediator

García-Castro, F. Javier; Alba, Ana Rocío Ocón; Blanca, María J.

doi:10.1007/s10902-019-00138-2

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“…Specifically, character strengths might alleviate the effect of perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents' depression symptoms by promoting effective coping with stressful demands and the negative changes resulting from the pandemic. Moreover, prior research suggested that high levels of character strengths are significantly linked to decreased stress ( Garcia-Castro et al, 2019 ). Therefore, it might be the case that adolescents' character strengths could benefit their mental health via the reduction of perceived stress, i.e., high levels of character strengths might perceive stress less and predispose adolescents to perceive the changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic as relatively less harmful factors.…”

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Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths

Liu

Wang

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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The outbreak of COVID-19 could increase adolescents' psychological distress and have a detrimental effect on their mental health. However, the negative effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents' mental health might be moderated by their existing psychological resources. The present study sought to investigate whether the relationship between adolescents' perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and their depression symptoms was alleviated by their character strengths. A total of 617 adolescents were recruited and completed the online survey during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicated that adolescents' perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly positively correlated with their depression symptoms. Character strengths were significantly negatively correlated with adolescents' perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and their depression symptoms. Moreover, the moderating effect of character strengths on the relationship between adolescents' perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and their depression symptoms was significant. Therefore, adolescents' character strengths as a protective factor could buffer the effect of perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic on their depression symptoms and contribute to maintaining their mental health.

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Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths

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Wang

2021

Personality and Individual Differences

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“…Hope and zest reportedly have a strong effect on life satisfaction (see Bruna et al 2019 meta-analysis), and are negatively associated with depression and anxiety (Niemiec 2013 ). They are also suggested to make individuals perceive less stress, and thus possibly contain the psychological distress experienced in challenging situations including being a caregiver (García-Castro et al 2019 ), experiencing an earthquake (Duan and Guo 2015 ), living with a chronic illness like multiple sclerosis (Smedema 2020 ) or suffering from depression (Huta and Hawley 2010 ). Their role, together with that of love, may help to explain the positive relation of transcendence with the strain of lockdown in a pandemic.…”

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“Andrà tutto bene”: Associations Between Character Strengths, Psychological Distress and Self-efficacy During Covid-19 Lockdown

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The Covid-19 pandemic obliged people around the world to stay home and self-isolate, with a number of negative psychological consequences. This study focuses on the protective role of character strengths in sustaining mental health and self-efficacy during lockdown. Data were collected from 944 Italian respondents (mean age = 37.24 years, SD = 14.50) by means of an online survey investigating character strengths, psychological distress and Covid-19-related self-efficacy one month after lockdown began. Using principal component analysis, four strengths factors were extracted, namely transcendence, interpersonal, openness and restraint. Regression models with second-order factors showed that transcendence strengths had a strong inverse association with psychological distress, and a positive association with self-efficacy. Regression models with single strengths identified hope, zest, prudence, love and forgiveness as the strengths most associated with distress, love and zest as the most related to self-efficacy and zest to general mental health. Openness factor and appreciation of beauty showed an unexpected direct relation with psychological distress. These results provide original evidence of the association of character strengths, and transcendence strengths in particular, with mental health and self-efficacy in a pandemic and are discussed within the field of positive psychology.

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“…These two strengths reportedly have a strong effect on life satisfaction (see Bruna et al, 2019 meta-analysis), and are negatively associated with depression and anxiety (Niemiec, 2013). They are also suggested to make individuals perceive less stress, and thus contain the psychological distress experienced in challenging situationsincluding being a caregiver (García-Castro et al, 2019), or experiencing an earthquake (Duan & Guo, 2015), for instance. Their role may help to explain the positive effect of transcendence on the strain of lockdown in a pandemic.…”

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“Andrà tutto bene”. The effect of character strengths on psychological distress and self-efficacy during Covid-19 lockdown

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Feraco

Ghisi

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The Covid-19 pandemic obliged people around the world to stay home and self-isolate, with a number of negative psychological consequences. This study focuses on the protective role of character strengths in sustaining mental health and self-efficacy during lockdown. Data were collected from 944 Italian respondents (mean age = 37.24 years, SD = 14.50) by means of an online survey investigating character strengths, psychological distress and Covid-19-related self-efficacy one month after lockdown began. Using principal component analysis, four strengths factors were extracted, namely transcendence, interpersonal, openness and restraint. Regression models showed that transcendence strengths had a strong inverse association with psychological distress, and a positive association with self-efficacy. Openness showed an unexpected direct effect on psychological distress. These results provide original evidence of the importance of character strengths, and transcendence strengths in particular, in supporting mental health and self-efficacy in a pandemic and are discussed within the field of positive psychology.

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Association Between Character Strengths and Caregiver Burden: Hope as a Mediator

Cited by 21 publications

References 69 publications

Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths

Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths

“Andrà tutto bene”: Associations Between Character Strengths, Psychological Distress and Self-efficacy During Covid-19 Lockdown

“Andrà tutto bene”. The effect of character strengths on psychological distress and self-efficacy during Covid-19 lockdown

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