Mindfully Reframing the Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak Through a Social Media Community for Students: A Pragmatic Study

Pagnini, Francesco; Bonalda, Elisa; Montrasi, Eleonora; Toselli, Elena; Antonietti, Markus

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.566778

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“…This suggests that migrants might have been more appreciative of changes in their mental health during COVID-19; therefore, they felt those approaches were especially helpful to their daily life. The usefulness of an inner shift or reframing has been reported in COVID-19 studies [64,65]. Our findings suggest that migrants in the UK also had similar experiences.…”

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Positive Mental Health of Migrants in the UK during COVID-19: A Review

Kotera,

Adam,

Kirkman

et al. 2023

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COVID-19 impacted the mental health of many people in the UK. The negative impact was especially substantial among vulnerable population groups, including migrants. While research has focused on the negative aspects of mental health during the pandemic, the positive mental health of migrants in the UK during COVID-19 remained to be evaluated. This review aimed to identify literature that focused on positive mental health, and thematically synthesise the findings to understand what positive mental health approaches were employed to support specific outcomes during the pandemic for them to survive in this difficult time. Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO were searched using terms including “mental health”, “migrants”, and “COVID-19”. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme checklist was used to assess the quality of the included studies. There were only two studies examining the positive mental health of UK migrants during this period. They describe approaches such as religious beliefs, passion for and acknowledgement of their job, learning new things, being physically active, social media, and social activities, producing outcomes such as inner peace, confidence, well-being, and a sense of belonging. The quality of the included studies was high. More research about positive mental health in migrants in the UK during the pandemic is needed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Positive Mental Health of Migrants in the UK during COVID-19: A Review

Kotera,

Adam,

Kirkman

et al. 2023

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“…As we mentioned before, improving effective coping strategies is a key factor of the promotion of help seeking intentions, and psycho-educational interventions have already demonstrated their potential in improving coping skills in students [ 68 , 69 ]. Programs about coping should focus on promoting emotion-focused strategies (such as the use of emotional support, acceptance and positive reframing), and problem-focused strategies (such as active coping, planning and use of instrumental support), taking into consideration the role of psychological distress in guiding the choice of such strategies.…”

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The role of psychological distress, stigma and coping strategies on help-seeking intentions in a sample of Italian college students

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Background Mental health issues are common among university students, but the latter are unlikely to seek professional help even when mental health services are available. Coping strategies, stigma and psychological distress are often considered as factors that can affect help-seeking intentions in university students. Methods This study aimed to determine the role of coping strategies, stigma and psychological distress on the intentions to seek professional help for psychological problems. All students (N = 13,886) from an Italian medium-sized university were asked to participate in a multidimensional online survey and 3754 (27.1%) agreed to participate. A Structural Equation Modelling approach was applied to explore the simultaneous direct and indirect effects of distress, stigma and coping strategies on professional help-seeking intentions. Results Results showed that students were not very likely to seek professional help and, through the Structural Equation Model, psychological distress was found to be positively correlated with coping strategies, which in turn was negatively associated with the stigma of seeking help. The latter was negatively associated with professional help-seeking intentions. These effects suggest that students with significant psychological distress use coping strategies to face the stigma of seeking help: the lower the stigma of seeking help, the higher the chance of developing intentions to seek professional help. Conclusions This study suggests the importance of implementing programs to encourage college students to seek help, including measures that foster a stigma-free environment, reduce psychological distress and promote the use of adaptive coping strategies. Interventions should be focused firstly on self-stigma and secondly on perceived stigma, taking into consideration the level of psychological distress and social stereotypes associated with mental disorders and help seeking behaviours. Programs about coping are also essential and should focus on promoting emotion-focused strategies and problem-focused strategies.

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“…A significant result of using the surveys to study ways to cope in the pandemic was the description of active behavior strategies (Table 2), which include various types of social support (Adams [48], Burch [61], Pagnini [67], Jiang [45], Rodriguez-Rey [56], and others) and their dynamics. Thus, in a family setting in May (T1) and September 2020 (T2), the most common strategies included family activities (72% of parents in T1; 66% in T2), virtual communication with family/friends (68% in T1; 56% in T2), involving a child in the daily routine (53% on T1; 59% on T2), etc.…”

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“…Rethinking one's own situation and activities is mentioned by many researchers as a coping factor during the pandemic [33,65,67]. Perceiving restrictions as providing an opportunity to actively do something new [53], changing one's thoughts and approaching the situation with a positive attitude [50], help people overcome stress.…”

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“…Analysis of the coping experience has shown that in a situation of maximum uncertainty, people use strategies to help overcome stress, maintain and support sustainability [63,70]. Cognitive-emotional factors are the main issues to be overcome: fear and anxiety of the unknown or of infection [57,63,[66][67][68][69], fear of stigmatization, fear of others who might transmit the virus [65], fatigue and exhaustion [65,70], ambivalence toward people [65], change in daily routine, reduced opportunities for communication, and voluntary isolation [59,61,62,64,65]. There is also an increase in emotional experiences associated with a sense of one's own competence and confidence, due to the acquisition of new skills and the improvement of existing ones [65,68].…”

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Self-Determination as a Mechanism for Personality Sustainability in Conditions of Daily Stress

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty, threat to life, and repeated lockdowns have significantly undermined people’s psychological well-being. In such situations, the basic needs for self-determination (SDT) are disrupted—autonomy, connectedness, and competence—but it is the resulting dissatisfaction that actualizes a search for strategies to cope with the problem. The objective of this article is to critically review the literature on various ways that people are coping with specific experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and their relationship to basic needs to maintain sustainability. We searched on the Web of Science CC database for relevant studies (2020–2021) and their systematization from the standpoint of Self-Determination Theory (SDT). This showed the dynamics of coping methods, reflecting a transition from confusion when confronted with stress, to the selection of effective strategies, confirming that when basic needs are blocked for a long time, people begin to search for a way to satisfy them. We present three levels of grouped coping methods: (1) physiological, (2) behavioral, and (3) cognitive, demonstrating their interrelationship with orientation (to oneself or to the context), assessment (a threat or a challenge), and basic psychological needs. The proposed model opens up prospects for creating effective coping and training programs for sustainable development of the individual in crisis situations.

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Mindfully Reframing the Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak Through a Social Media Community for Students: A Pragmatic Study

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Positive Mental Health of Migrants in the UK during COVID-19: A Review

Positive Mental Health of Migrants in the UK during COVID-19: A Review

The role of psychological distress, stigma and coping strategies on help-seeking intentions in a sample of Italian college students

Self-Determination as a Mechanism for Personality Sustainability in Conditions of Daily Stress

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