Psychological factors explaining the COVID-19 pandemic impact on mental health: The role of meaning, beliefs, and perceptions of vulnerability and mortality

A Negri, F Conte, CL Caldiroli, RA Neimeyer… - Behavioral …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study tested an expanded version of the explanatory model of the negative impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health proposed by Milman and colleagues. Participants …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable groups, including homeless persons and migrants, in France: A qualitative study

L Crouzet, H Scarlett, AC Colleville, L Pourtau… - Preventive Medicine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social inequalities tended to increase in the context of the pandemic, particularly in relation
to the measures taken to manage and reduce the risk of COVID-19. When lockdown …

Coping strategies adapted by Ghanaians during the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown: A population-based study

S Iddi, D Obiri-Yeboah, IK Aboh, R Quansah… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and control measures adopted by countries globally
can lead to stress and anxiety. Investigating the coping strategies to this unprecedented …

Emotional distress, psychosomatic symptoms and their relationship with institutional responses: A survey of Italian frontline medical staff during the Covid-19 …

T Marinaci, L Carpinelli, C Venuleo, G Savarese… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
With the advent of Covid-19, health workers have been under constant physical and
psychological pressure. Italy was among the first countries to face the health emergency in a …

A “viral epistolary” and psychosocial spirituality: Restoring transcendental meaning during COVID-19 through a digital community letter-writing project

C De Vincenzo, F Serio, A Franceschi, S Barbagallo… - Pastoral psychology, 2022 - Springer
This article outlines the results of a three-month-long community letter-writing and letter-
sharing project called “Viral Epistolary”(VE), which we completed online in Italy during the …

Individual and community psychological experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic: The state of emergency in Portugal

AM Morgado, J Cruz, MM Peixoto - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Individuals have different ways of coping with crisis. Individual factors, family and contextual
features, and community support may influence how individuals feel, think and act during a …

Making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative longitudinal study investigating the first and second wave in Italy

T Marinaci, C Venuleo, A Gennaro, G Sammut - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the crucial role of people's compliance for the
success of measures designed to protect public health. Within the frame of Semiotic Cultural …

“What I thought was so important isn't really that important”: international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

I Todorova, L Albers, N Aronson, A Baban… - Health Psychology …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the physical
and mental health of people everywhere. The aim of the study is to understand how people …

Personal growth and well-being in the time of COVID: an exploratory mixed-methods analysis

JJ Kim, M Munroe, Z Feng, S Morris… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The physical distancing measures necessitated by COVID-19 have resulted in a severe
withdrawal from the patterns of daily life, necessitating significantly reduced contact with …

Meaningfulness protects from and crisis of meaning exacerbates general mental distress longitudinally

T Schnell, H Krampe - BMC psychiatry, 2022 - Springer
Background Reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic are diverse, and both mental distress and
existential crises can arise. The identification of protective and exacerbating factors and their …