Psychological adaptation in Antarctica amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Polar Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/2154896X.2023.2205241

Pedro Marques-Quinteiro, Gloria Leon

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ABSTRACT Psychological adaptation in isolated, confined, and extreme environments plays an important role in the achievement of performance and wellbeing. Whereas empirical research has been fruitful in determining the antecedents of psychological adaptation, opportunities remain to identify and apply new constructs through which psychological adaptation can grow. In the current study, we explored the possibility that one such construct is individual self-leadership. Participants were eight Antarctic scientists enrolled in the 2021–2022 summer campaign in the South Shetland Islands, under considerable COVID-19 restrictions during that period. Data were collected on three occasions and analysed through a mixed-method approach where qualitative and quantitative evidence were integrated. Overall, the results indicated that the self-imposed quarantine pre-deployment period in Punta Arenas had a heavy toll on expeditioners mental health, with the psychological adaptation and self-leadership of expeditioners being positively correlated across the campaign. The implications of our findings, as well possible future research directions, are discussed.

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COVID-19大流行期间南极洲的心理适应

在孤立、受限和极端环境中的心理适应在取得表现和健康方面起着重要作用。尽管实证研究在确定心理适应的前因性方面已经取得了丰硕的成果，但仍有机会识别和应用新的结构，通过这些结构，心理适应可以得到发展。在本研究中，我们探讨了个体自我领导的可能性。参与者是参加2021-2022年南设得兰群岛夏季活动的八名南极科学家，在此期间受到了相当大的COVID-19限制。数据收集了三次，并通过综合定性和定量证据的混合方法进行了分析。总体而言，研究结果表明，蓬塔阿雷纳斯部署前的自我隔离对探险者的心理健康造成了严重影响，在整个活动期间，探险者的心理适应与自我领导呈正相关。讨论了本研究的意义以及未来可能的研究方向。

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期刊介绍： Antarctica and the Arctic are of crucial importance to global security. Their governance and the patterns of human interactions there are increasingly contentious; mining, tourism, bioprospecting, and fishing are but a few of the many issues of contention, while environmental concerns such as melting ice sheets have a global impact. The Polar Journal is a forum for the scholarly discussion of polar issues from a social science and humanities perspective and brings together the considerable number of specialists and policy makers working on these crucial regions across multiple disciplines. The journal welcomes papers on polar affairs from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities and is especially interested in publishing policy-relevant research. Each issue of the journal either features articles from different disciplines on polar affairs or is a topical theme from a range of scholarly approaches. Topics include: • Polar governance and policy • Polar history, heritage, and culture • Polar economics • Polar politics • Music, art, and literature of the polar regions • Polar tourism • Polar geography and geopolitics • Polar psychology • Polar archaeology Manuscript types accepted: • Regular articles • Research reports • Opinion pieces • Book Reviews • Conference Reports.