Reframing prolonged negative mental health effects of COVID-19: cognitive restructuring promotes posttraumatic growth.

IF 2.4 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI:10.1080/08870446.2024.2427654

András Matuz, Boróka Gács, Béla Birkás

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Abstract

Objective: The study aimed to investigate the level of peritraumatic distress in relation to possible traumatic outcomes in university personnel and students across three pandemic waves.

Methods: Three cross-sectional surveys were conducted to investigate university students and staff (n = 1426). An online survey including the COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI), Ways of Coping, Impact of Events Scale (IES), and Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) were administered across three waves. Psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of CPDI were assessed and associations between peri/posttraumatic stress and coping were explored. Cluster analysis based on posttraumatic stress and growth was used to identify subgroups.

Results: An increasing trend of peritraumatic stress over the waves was found. Regression analyses revealed that two coping styles, cognitive restructuring and problem analysis were negatively and positively associated, respectively, with both peritraumatic and posttraumatic stress. Two-step cluster analysis conducted on PTGI and IES scores yielded three clusters of posttraumatic changes: IES-low/PTGI-low, IES-high/PTGI-low and IES moderate/PTGI-high. Multinomial regression showed that cognitive restructuring and peritraumatic stress were significant predictors of cluster membership.

Conclusion: Our findings point out that cognitive restructuring may be effective for dealing with longer-term psychological results of traumatic life events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, even in highly exposed groups of the society.

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重塑 COVID-19 对心理健康的长期负面影响：认知重组促进创伤后成长。

研究目的本研究旨在调查大学教职员工和学生在三次大流行病浪潮中与可能的创伤性后果相关的创伤周围痛苦程度：对大学生和教职员工（n = 1426）进行了三次横断面调查。在线调查包括 COVID-19 心理创伤压力指数 (CPDI)、应对方式、事件影响量表 (IES) 和创伤后成长量表 (PTGI)。对匈牙利版 CPDI 的心理测量特性进行了评估，并探讨了创伤前后压力与应对之间的关联。基于创伤后压力和成长的聚类分析被用来识别亚组：结果：发现创伤前后应激随波次呈上升趋势。回归分析表明，认知重组和问题分析这两种应对方式分别与创伤周和创伤后应激呈负相关和正相关。对 PTGI 和 IES 分数进行的两步聚类分析得出了三个创伤后变化聚类：IES 低/PTGI 低、IES 高/PTGI 低和 IES 中等/PTGI 高。多项式回归结果表明，认知重组和创伤前后应激对群组成员身份有显著的预测作用：我们的研究结果表明，认知重组可能对处理创伤性生活事件（如 COVID-19 大流行病）的长期心理后果有效，即使是社会中暴露程度较高的群体也是如此。

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Psychology & Health Multiple-

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7.30

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3.00%

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期刊介绍： Psychology & Health promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. The contents include work on psychological aspects of physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the aetiology of physical illnesses; health attitudes and behaviour, including prevention; the individual-health care system interface particularly communication and psychologically-based interventions. The journal publishes original research, and accepts not only papers describing rigorous empirical work, including meta-analyses, but also those outlining new psychological approaches and interventions in health-related fields.