Meaningful living, resilience, affective balance, and psychological health problems among Turkish young adults during coronavirus pandemic

Yıldırım, Murat; Arslan, Gökmen; Wong, Paul T. P.

doi:10.1007/s12144-020-01244-8

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“…The present findings are also in line with earlier research outcomes regarding the association between loneliness and mental health and well-being [31,32]. More specifically, cross-sectional results from the context of current pandemic showed that loneliness is positively associated with negative indicators of mental health and negatively associated with positive indicators of mental health [19,20,33,34]. Moreover, studies demonstrated that psychological strengths were found to be effective in reducing mental health problems and improving well-being [8,33].…”

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confidence: 91%

“…These findings correspond with earlier research demonstrating that loneliness is negatively related to meaning in life [19,20,28] and positively related to psychological distress [14,29] and that meaning in life is a potential factor in reducing psychological distress [30]. The findings of the current study further suggest the existence of meaning in life in the association between loneliness and psychological distress.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The literature is consistent in indicating that meaning in life is a robust predictor of well-being and mental and physical health. A wide body of research suggests that meaning in life has a favorable effect on many mental health outcomes including greater positive affect, lower depression, anxiety, and negative affect [19]. Meaning in life was found to be positively associate with adaptive religious coping and negatively associate with maladaptive religious coping and loneliness in the context of coronavirus pandemic [19,20].…”

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A wide body of research suggests that meaning in life has a favorable effect on many mental health outcomes including greater positive affect, lower depression, anxiety, and negative affect [19]. Meaning in life was found to be positively associate with adaptive religious coping and negatively associate with maladaptive religious coping and loneliness in the context of coronavirus pandemic [19,20]. Meaning in life shows not only importance for well-being and mental health outcomes, but also for physical health.…”

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

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2021

Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Resilience During the Pandemic Period - Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives

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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a health crisis with a high amount of loneliness, which in turn may be associated with negative mental health outcome like psychological distress. This chapter aimed to investigate if meaning in life mediated the effect of loneliness on symptoms of psychological distress. A young adult sample (N = 605, 75.7% women) completed the measures of loneliness, psychological distress, and meaning in life. The results indicated that meaning in life mediated the relations between loneliness and psychological distress symptoms. This relation was significant at low, medium, and high levels of meaning in life. The study shows that experience of loneliness is associated with symptoms of psychological distress. Level of meaning in life differentiates the direct and indirect effect of loneliness on psychological distress. Knowledge about the effect of loneliness in response to a health crisis is important for developing treatment and prevention strategies for loneliness, psychological distress, and meaning in life.

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confidence: 91%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Meaning In Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

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2021

Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Resilience During the Pandemic Period - Anthropological and Psychological Perspectives

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“…The results of the study were also consistent with previous research performed during the pandemic, showing the relationship between the meaning in life and mental well-being and resilience (Arslan et al, 2020a;Trzebiński et al, 2020;Yıldırım et al, 2020a;Arslan and Yıldırım, 2021). Previous studies were consistent with these findings, indicating that meaning in life was closely associated with mental well-being indicators (Trzebiński et al, 2020;Arslan and Allen, 2021;Yıldırım et al, 2021). In a cross-sectional study, for example, Arslan et al (2020a) found that meaning in life was a significant predictive factor of mental well-being among Turkish young adults.…”

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A Longitudinal Examination of the Association Between Meaning in Life, Resilience, and Mental Well-Being in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic

Arslan

Yıldırım

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The coronavirus disease possesses an important threat to people's health and well-being. The purpose of the present study is to longitudinally examine whether meaning in life before the pandemic increases resilience and mental well-being during the coronavirus pandemic. The sample of the study comprised 172 young adults (72% women) in a public university in an urban city of Turkey. Participants ranged in age between 18 and 40 years (M = 20.87, SD = 3.92). Mediation analyses were performed to examine the impacts of meaning in life on the outcomes across the two waves of data. Findings from these analyses revealed that meaning in life before the pandemic had a significant predictive effect on resilience and mental well-being of young adults during the coronavirus disease. Resilience also mediated the impacts of meaning in life on mental well-being indicators at the second time. These results suggest the importance of meaning-based preventions and interventions designed to build up resilience experiences for improving psychological health and well-being during a public health crisis.

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The mediating role of resilience in the relationship between helicopter parenting and several indicators of mental health among emerging adults

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Haktanır

Şimşir

2023

Journal Community Psychology

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Helicopter parenting has received much attention in the last decade. The growing literature on this phenomenon illustrates the negative consequences of helicopter parenting. The detrimental effects of helicopter parenting on emerging adults may be especially more present in collectivist cultures. Studies carried out with this population have demonstrated that mental health problems among this group are more prevalent than those of other groups. Hence, an understanding of the factors affecting mental health at this age is critical. The deleterious effects of helicopter parenting on mental health among emerging adults are well‐documented. However, there is a lack of literature investigating the mediating role of resilience between helicopter parenting and mental health issues (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress). To bridge this gap, we collected data from 402 emerging adults (M = 21.31, SD = 2.01). Our results revealed that although helicopter parenting was a risk factor for several indicators of mental health among emerging adults, resilience mitigates the potential detrimental effect of helicopter parenting.

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Meaningful living, resilience, affective balance, and psychological health problems among Turkish young adults during coronavirus pandemic

Cited by 89 publications

References 91 publications

Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

Loneliness and Psychological Distress: A Mediating Role of Meaning in Life during COVID-19 Pandemic

A Longitudinal Examination of the Association Between Meaning in Life, Resilience, and Mental Well-Being in Times of Coronavirus Pandemic

The mediating role of resilience in the relationship between helicopter parenting and several indicators of mental health among emerging adults

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