Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19

Khoo, Shuna Shiann; Toh, Wei Xing; Yang, Hwajin

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110675

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“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, several studies found that religiosity helped people to deal with stressful life events [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. In contrast, other studies have not found significant associations between religiosity and mental health outcomes [ 23 , 24 ] or have found religiosity to be a small but significant predictor of higher stress levels during the COVID-19 pandemic [ 25 , 26 ]. Early meta-analyses reported small-to-moderate positive relationships between religiosity and mental health [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ].…”

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“…Considering the relationship between religiosity and mental health issues [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ] and trust in institutions [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ] during the COVID-19 pandemic, we expected that these variables would be predictors of change in fear of COVID-19 over a three-month period during the change in the pandemic situation. The number of total vaccinations visibly increased while the stringency of restrictions and mortality rate due to COVID-19 decreased over the three months in each country [ 50 , 54 ].…”

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Can Fear of COVID-19 Be Predicted by Religiosity and Trust in Institutions among Young Adults? A Prospective Cross-National Study

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The aim of this study was to reveal whether religiosity and trust in institutions are longitudinal predictors of change in fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19) across Poland, Germany, Slovenia, and Israel among young adults over a three-month period. The representative sample consisted of 1723 participants between the ages of 20 and 40 years (M = 30.74, SD = 5.74) across Poland (n = 446), Germany (n = 418), Slovenia (n = 431), and Israel (n = 428). The first measurement was carried out in February 2020 and the second was conducted in May/June 2020. A repeated-measures, two-way, mixed-factor ANOVA was performed to examine changes over time (T) and across countries (C) as well as the interaction of time and country (TxC) for FCV-19, religiosity, and trust in institutions. The results showed a significant decrease over time and differences between countries in all variables, as well as in TxC for FCV-19 and trust in institutions. Linear generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to assess the longitudinal change between T1 and T2 in FCV-19, including religiosity and trust in institutions as predictors, country as a factor, and gender and age as confounders. Female gender, religiosity, and trust in institutions were found to be significant longitudinal predictors of change in FCV-19. Country was a significant moderator of the relationship between trust in institutions and FCV-19, with the highest result achieved in Poland. Religiosity and trust in institutions were positive predictors of change in fear of COVID-19 among young adults across countries. Religious and governmental institutions should take this into consideration when communicating with believers and citizens during challenging situations.

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Can Fear of COVID-19 Be Predicted by Religiosity and Trust in Institutions among Young Adults? A Prospective Cross-National Study

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“…The pandemic has also affected marital life, and numerous studies have reported domestic violence issues globally ( Abbas et al., 2020 ; Piquero et al., 2021 ; Gulati and Kelly, 2020 ; Noman et al., 2021 ). Religiosity levels among people have helped to maintain marital satisfaction ( Aman et al., 2019 ; Khoo et al., 2021 ). The coronavirus infection disease is dangerous to elderly diabetic patients ( Moradi et al., 2020 ).…”

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Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on tourism: transformational potential and implications for a sustainable recovery of the travel and leisure industry

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Mubeen

Iorember

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Current Research in Behavioral Sciences

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The study stipulates phases to observe the proposed mechanism in formulating the travel and leisure industry's recovery strategies. The present pandemic COVID-19 has resulted in global challenges, economic and healthcare crises, and posed spillover impacts on the global industries, including tourism and travel that the major contributor to the service industry worldwide. The tourism and leisure industry has faced the COVID-19 tourism impacts hardest-hit and lies among the most damaged global industries. The leisure and internal tourism indicated a steep decline amounting to 2.86 trillion US dollars, which quantified more than 50% revenue losses. In the first step, the study explores the consequences and settings of the COVID-19 pandemic and how innovation and change can contribute to the tourism industry's revival to the next normal. Thus, the study determines that tourism enterprises and scholars must consider and change the basic principles, main assumptions, and organizational situations related to research and practice framework through rebuilding and establishing the tourism sector. In the second step, the study discusses direct COVID-19 tourism impacts, attitudes, and practices in gaining the leisure industry's boom and recovery. In the third phase, the study proposes to observe the characteristics and COVID-19 tourism consequences on the travel and tourism research. The findings provide insights in regaining the tourism industry's operational activities and offer helpful suggestions to government officials, scholars, and tourism firms to reinvest in the tourism industry to set it back to a normal position.

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“…2021 ; Nee 2021 ), which was considered to be an important factor affecting delay discounting ( Kim et al. 2012 ; Steinbeis and Crone 2016 ) and was found as an important factor affecting COVID-19-related stress ( Khoo et al. 2021 ) and anxiety ( Demlrtas 2021 ).…”

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Maladaptive changes in delay discounting in males during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of functional connectome

Xiao

Chen

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Cerebral Cortex

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The Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) and measures to curb it created population-level changes in male-dominant impulsive and risky behaviors such as violent crimes and gambling. One possible explanation for this is that the pandemic has been stressful, and males, more so than females, tend to respond to stress by altering their focus on immediate versus delayed rewards, as reflected in their delay discounting rates. Delay discounting rates from healthy undergraduate students were collected twice during the pandemic. Discounting rates of males (n=190) but not of females (n=493) increased during the pandemic. Using machine learning, we show that prepandemic functional connectome predict increased discounting rates in males (n=88). Moreover, considering that delay discounting is associated with multiple psychiatric disorders, we found the same neural pattern that predicted increased discounting rates in this study, in secondary datasets of patients with major depression and schizophrenia. The findings point to sex-based differences in maladaptive delay discounting under real-world stress events, and to connectome-based neuromarkers of such effects. They can explain why there was a population-level increase in several impulsive and risky behaviors during the pandemic and point to intriguing questions about the shared underlying mechanisms of stress responses, psychiatric disorders and delay discounting.

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Seeking control during uncontrollable times: Control abilities and religiosity predict stress during COVID-19

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Can Fear of COVID-19 Be Predicted by Religiosity and Trust in Institutions among Young Adults? A Prospective Cross-National Study

Can Fear of COVID-19 Be Predicted by Religiosity and Trust in Institutions among Young Adults? A Prospective Cross-National Study

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on tourism: transformational potential and implications for a sustainable recovery of the travel and leisure industry

Maladaptive changes in delay discounting in males during the COVID-19 pandemic: the predictive role of functional connectome

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