The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea

Kim, Joo Hyun; Shim, Yerin; Choi, Incheol; Choi, Eun-Soo

doi:10.1177/1948550621990595

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“…For affective well-being, participants responded to 8 questions, each question assessing "How much are you feeling each emotion at this moment?" anchored by three positive affects (PA: happy, joyful, and relaxed) and five negative affects (NA: bored, annoyed, anxious, depressed, stress) [19,20]. Participants responded to each of the well-being indicators on an 11-point scale ranging from 0 to 10 (e.g., 0 = not satisfied, 10 = very satisfied; see S1 Table for the actual questionnaire).…”

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How COVID-19 affected mental well-being: An 11- week trajectories of daily well-being of Koreans amidst COVID-19 by age, gender and region

Choi

Kim

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PLoS ONE

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The present study examined the daily well-being of Koreans (n = 353,340) for 11 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 20 –April 7). We analyzed whether and how life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and life meaning changed during the outbreak. First, we found that the well-being of Koreans changed daily in a cubic fashion, such that it declined and recovered during the early phase but declined substantially during the later phase (after COVID- 19 was declared world pandemic by WHO). Second, unlike other emotions, boredom displayed a distinctive pattern of linear increase, especially for younger people, suggesting that boredom might be, in part, responsible for their inability to comply with social distancing recommendations. Third, the well-being of older people and males changed less compared to younger people and females. Finally, daily well-being dropped significantly more in the hard-hit regions than in other regions. Implications and limitations are discussed.

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How COVID-19 affected mental well-being: An 11- week trajectories of daily well-being of Koreans amidst COVID-19 by age, gender and region

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Kim

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“…Again, healthcare workers who had COVID-19 related worry were more likely to elicit severe anxiety (Teshome et al, 2020 ). Behavioral coping signified the activities to alter the stressful encounter (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984 ), indicating the preventive measures in the pandemic specifically, namely, masking-wearing, hygiene practice, control of social distancing, and avoidance of potential infectious circumstance (Kim et al, 2021 ). Personal preventive measures including handwashing, social distancing, and wearing face masks were found to be related to fewer psychiatric symptoms (Tan et al, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2020a ).…”

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Relationship between social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach

Peng

Tao

2021

Curr Psychol

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With the continued spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strict implementation of quarantine policy, the levels of anxiety among university students surged in the lockdown period. Previous studies confirmed the effectiveness of social support in mitigating anxiety, so offering social support should be of high priority in COVID-19, especially in quarantine. However, various coping strategies against the pandemic may explain the link between social support and anxiety. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations of social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety, identifying the potential mediating effect of coping strategy between social support and anxiety during the COVID-19 quarantine. Home-quarantined Chinese university students ( N = 2640; 68.79% female) completed online ratings of social support, coping, and anxiety from February 21st to 24th, 2020, when they had been confined to their homes in the peak of the pandemic. Sex and academic attainment being covariates, path analysis with parallel mediation were conducted using “lavaan” package in R environment. Anxiety was significantly negatively related to subjective support and counselor support, while family support did not demonstrate substantive associations with anxiety. The mediating role of cognitive coping was found between all the three social support sources and anxiety. Emotional coping and behavioral coping were found to partially mediate the relationship between subjective support and anxiety, fully mediate the associations of family support and anxiety. However, the impact of counselor support on anxiety was not found to be mediated by emotional coping and behavioral coping. This large-scale online study provides initial evidence that various coping strategies may mediate the relationship between three sources of social support and anxiety in quarantine to some extent. Given that coping against COVID-19 is a valuable reasearch goal upon the global ongoing challenge, the findings will shed more light on the mechanism in the link between coping, social support, and anxiety.

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“…At the same time, it got considerably weakened at high levels of coping strategy. Kim et al (2021) also found that overall, participants' well-being significantly decreased during the COVID-19 outbreak. Applying coping strategies, precautionary actions, cognitive evaluation, and behavioral approaches significantly reduced the rate of change in well-being across individuals.…”

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The Role of Coping Strategies in the Resilience and Well-Being of College Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

Valladolid

2021

PSSJ

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The study aimed to investigate the relationship between resilience and well-being of college students during the Covid-19 pandemic and to determine the moderating role of coping strategies in this relationship. Resilience was defined based on the concept of Connor and Davidson (2003), who defined it as an individual characteristic that allows an individual to thrive in the face of adversity, coping strategies were categorized into approach or avoidant coping strategies as measured by COPE Brief, and well-being was conceptualized based on Warwick-Edinburgh's concept of mental well-being. It included 243 college students enrolled in one of the 12 online social science courses in one college in Metro Manila who were administered through online platform the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale, Brief COPE, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10), and Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students Questionnaire. Results showed a significant relationship between resilience and well-being. Approach coping strategy also showed significant positive relationships with the three criterion variables: academic, social, and mental well-being, indicating that the more a student employs approach coping strategy, the better is his or her academic, social, and mental well-being. On the other hand, the Avoidant coping strategy was negatively associated with academic-related emotions, showing that the less the use of the Avoidant coping approach, the more positive are the academic-related emotions felt by students during online classes. However, both coping strategies failed to moderate the relationship between resilience and well-being. It is recommended that schools implement programs and services that will train students on how to cope during pandemic.

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The Role of Coping Strategies in Maintaining Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak in South Korea

Cited by 39 publications

References 74 publications

How COVID-19 affected mental well-being: An 11- week trajectories of daily well-being of Koreans amidst COVID-19 by age, gender and region

How COVID-19 affected mental well-being: An 11- week trajectories of daily well-being of Koreans amidst COVID-19 by age, gender and region

Relationship between social support, coping strategy against COVID-19, and anxiety among home-quarantined Chinese university students: A path analysis modeling approach

The Role of Coping Strategies in the Resilience and Well-Being of College Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

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