Conservation of Resources, Psychological Distress, and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal Int J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2022 Sep 19

PMID 36119444

Authors

Hadas Egozi Farkash

Mooli Lahad

Stevan E Hobfoll

Dima Leykin

Limor Aharonson-Daniel

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Abstract

The Conservation of Resources (COR) theory suggests that stress results from threatened or actual loss of resources following significant life events. This study used COR theory as the framework to explore the reflection of loss of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological distress and resilience, in an adult Jewish Israeli population. We examined the association between background variables, stress, loneliness, concern, COVID-19-related post traumatic symptoms (PTS), resilience factors and COR an online survey among 2,000 adults during April 2020. Positive relationships were identified between resource loss and PTS ( = 0.66, < 0.01), and between resource gain and resilience ( = 0.30, < 0.01). Psychological variables were significantly associated with PTS and explained 62.7% of the variance, (20, 1,413) = 118.58, < 0.001. Loss of resources, stress, loneliness and concern were found to be risk factors for distress and PTS, whereas resilience factors played a protective role. We thus recommend using the COR theory to explore COVID-19 effects elsewhere.

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