The ongoing impact: A 4-wave longitudinal study on how loss and avoidance coping lead to long-term challenges after COVID

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102086

Liuqing Wei , Alexander S. English , Thomas Talhelm , Xinyi Zhang , Lu Zheng , Qionghan Zhang

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Abstract

COVID-19 changed the world we live in. We need research to understand the challenges people are still experiencing. We used a longitudinal design to test the relationships among non-death loss, avoidance coping, and perceived COVID-19 impact before and after China’s dramatic zero-COVID policy reversal. We tracked 270 emerging adults who just graduated from college at four time-points from June 2022 to December 2023. Two waves were conducted before the end of zero-COVID policy; one wave was immediately after the policy ended (Dec. 2022); and one wave was one full year later. Non-death losses were consistently associated with increased perceived COVID-19 impact at later stages. This association remained consistent even one year after the end of zero-COVID policy. People tended to use more avoidance coping immediately after the policy transition, but it did not have longitudinal associations with perceived COVID-19 impact. Our findings suggest that non-death loss has a long-lasting psychological impact of COVID-19.

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持续的影响：四波纵向研究：COVID 后损失和回避应对如何导致长期挑战

COVID-19 改变了我们生活的世界。我们需要通过研究来了解人们仍在经历的挑战。我们采用纵向设计，测试了在中国戏剧性的零加征关税政策逆转前后，非死亡损失、回避应对和感知到的 COVID-19 影响之间的关系。我们在 2022 年 6 月至 2023 年 12 月的四个时间点对 270 名刚从大学毕业的成年人进行了追踪调查。其中两波是在零高考志愿填报政策结束前进行的，一波是在政策结束后（2022 年 12 月）立即进行的，还有一波是在整整一年后进行的。在后期阶段，非死亡损失始终与 COVID-19 影响的增加相关。即使在零 COVID 政策结束一年后，这种关联仍保持不变。在政策过渡后，人们倾向于立即使用更多的回避应对方法，但这与感知到的 COVID-19 影响没有纵向联系。我们的研究结果表明，非死亡损失会对 COVID-19 产生长期的心理影响。

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International Journal of Intercultural Relations Multiple-

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4.30

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14.30%

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122

期刊介绍： IJIR is dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of theory, practice, and research in intergroup relations. The contents encompass theoretical developments, field-based evaluations of training techniques, empirical discussions of cultural similarities and differences, and critical descriptions of new training approaches. Papers selected for publication in IJIR are judged to increase our understanding of intergroup tensions and harmony. Issue-oriented and cross-discipline discussion is encouraged. The highest priority is given to manuscripts that join theory, practice, and field research design. By theory, we mean conceptual schemes focused on the nature of cultural differences and similarities.