Journal
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10010132
Keywords
risk of contracting COVID-19; personal resources; meaning-making; stress; subjective well-being; healthcare workers
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- University of Opole
- John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
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The latest research suggests that the relationships between the risk of contracting COVID-19, personal resources, and subjective well-being have an indirect character, mediated by factors such as meaning-making processes and stress experiences. The study focused on healthcare workers and found that self-efficacy and meaning in life were associated with higher cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being, while a lesser risk of contracting COVID-19 was only associated with the higher affective dimension. Stress and meaning-making played different mediating roles in the relationship between the risk of COVID-19 and personal resources with the cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being.
The latest research suggests that the relationships between the risk of contracting COVID-19, personal resources and subjective well-being have rather an indirect character and can include the occurrence of mediating factors related to meaning-making processes and stress experiences. Protection motivation theory offers a theoretical paradigm that enables these associations to be thoroughly investigated and understood. The current study aimed to examine the mediating roles of meaning-making and stress in the relationship of risk of contracting COVID-19 and personal resources (self-efficacy and meaning in life) with subjective well-being among healthcare workers. A total of 225 healthcare workers from hospitals, medical centres and diagnostic units completed a set of questionnaires during the first few months of the COVID-19 lockdown period (March-May 2020). The results revealed that greater self-efficacy and meaning in life were associated with higher cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being, whereas a lesser risk of contracting COVID-19 was only associated with the higher affective dimension. The central finding demonstrated different mediating roles of stress and meaning-making in the relationship of risk of contracting COVID-19 and personal resources with the cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. This confirmed the applicability of meaning-oriented and stress management processes for understanding how healthcare workers' well-being is affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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