Beyond Mere Surviving: The role of host country support and gratitude in thriving during the pandemic.

ABSTRACT: While the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered individuals' lives worldwide, it has been perhaps especially disruptive to the lives of sojourners as many have been unable to return home and are absent from their families, a familiar culture, and normal social support systems. While it is important to ask how such individuals can successfully survive in such a crisis, we were interested in extending our knowledge and understanding by asking "how can such individuals move beyond mere surviving to a state of thriving?" In answering this question, we utilized a positive psychology framework to develop a theoretical model wherein we expected higher/lower levels of perceived social support from host country people (i.e., host country support) to result in higher/lowe

SUBMITTER: Hua J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9033255 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature