Social cognitive mechanisms in healthcare worker resilience across time during the pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Healthcare workers are at increased risk for mental health problems during disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Identifying resilience mechanisms can inform development of interventions for this population. The current study examined pathways that may support healthcare worker resilience, specifically testing enabling (social support enabled self-efficacy) and cultivation (self-efficacy cultivating support) models.

Methods

Healthcare workers (N = 828) in the Rocky Mountain West completed self-report measures at four time points (once per month from April to July of 2020). We estimated structural equation models to explore the potential mediating effects that received social support and coping self-efficacy had (at time 2 and time 3) between traumatic stress sympt

SUBMITTER: Smith AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8881189 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature