Emotion-focused coping mediates the relationship between COVID-related distress and compulsive buying.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

COVID-19 posits psychological challenges worldwide and has given rise to nonadaptive behavior, especially in the presence of maladaptive coping. In the current study, we assessed whether the relationship between COVID-related distress and compulsive buying is mediated by task-focused and emotion-focused coping. We also examined whether these associations were invariant over time as the pandemic unfolded.

Methods

Self-report surveys were administered online in the United States in the first six months of the pandemic (March-October 2020) in sampling batches of 25 participants every three days, resulting in a total sample of N = 1,418 (40% female, mean age = 36.6). We carried out structural equation modeling to assess whether the relationship between distre

SUBMITTER: Kovacs LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9477291 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature