The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Historically social connection has been an important way through which humans have coped with large-scale threatening events. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns have deprived people of major sources of social support and coping, with others representing threats. Hence, a major stressor during the pandemic has been a sense of social disconnection and loneliness. This study explores how people's experience of compassion and feeling socially safe and connected, in contrast to feeling socially disconnected, lonely and fearful of compassion, effects the impact of perceived threat of COVID-19 on post-traumatic growth and post-traumatic stress.

Methods

Adult participants from the general population (N = 4057) across 21 countries worldwide, completed self-

SUBMITTER: Matos M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8673633 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature