Abstract
The coronavirus disease possesses an important threat to people's health and well-being. The purpose of the present study is to longitudinally examine whether meaning in life before the pandemic increases resilience and mental well-being during the coronavirus pandemic. The sample of the study comprised 172 young adults (72% women) in a public university in an urban city of Turkey. Participants ranged in age between 18 and 40 years (M = 20.87, SD = 3.92). Mediation analyses were performed to examine the impacts of meaning in life on the outcomes across the two waves of data. Findings from these analyses revealed that meaning in life before the pandemic had a significant predictive effect on resilience and mental well-being of young adults during the coronavirus disease. Resilience also mediated the impacts of meaning in life on mental well-being indicators at the second time. These results suggest the importance of meaning-based preventions and interventions designed to build up resilience experiences for improving psychological health and well-being during a public health crisis.
Highlights
Reviewed by: Vanesa Gongora, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina Kori Krueger, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
The present paper aimed to investigate how meaning in life longitudinally contributed to mental well-being amongst the Turkish young adults as well as examined the mediating effect of resilience in the relationship of meaning in life with the components of mental well-being
Results from the study showed that meaning in life in Wave 1 had significant predictive effects on resilience and mental well-being at Wave 2
Summary
Reviewed by: Vanesa Gongora, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina Kori Krueger, Carnegie Mellon University, United States. Mediation analyses were performed to examine the impacts of meaning in life on the outcomes across the two waves of data Findings from these analyses revealed that meaning in life before the pandemic had a significant predictive effect on resilience and mental well-being of young adults during the coronavirus disease. Resilience mediated the impacts of meaning in life on mental well-being indicators at the second time These results suggest the importance of meaning-based preventions and interventions designed to build up resilience experiences for improving psychological health and well-being during a public health crisis. A LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MEANING IN LIFE, RESILIENCE, AND MENTAL WELL-BEING IN TIMES OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
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