Coping with COVID-19 - Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being.

ABSTRACT: Policy interventions intended to fight COVID-19 forced people to cope with several restrictions on their personal freedom. The present work addressed the question of how people dealt with stressors during a lockdown period and investigated the role of trait mindfulness and its subcomponents in coping and mental well-being. We recruited a sample of 93 participants to study coping reactions using a multi-wave study over a period of two-months with 13 measurement points. Multilevel analysis revealed that engagement-related coping such as problem-solving was positively related to well-being; the opposite was true for disengagement coping such as blaming. The mindfulness facet orientation towards experience (being open and accepting experiences without judgment) was negatively related to diseng

SUBMITTER: Gotmann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7843110 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature