Abstract
COVID-19 has brought a massive psychological impact on individuals' life. The current study sets a significant purpose to test the model whether post-traumatic stress and coping strategies affect stress-related growth regarding the COVID-19 event. One hundred and ninety-nine participants have participated in an online survey in the period of lockdown. The proposed hypotheses model is further tested using PLS-SEM. The first model explains a significant moderate, 46% amount of variance for stress-related growth. With gender as moderator, the second model explains a significant 29% amount of variance for stress-related growth, which is also moderate. This study shows that active coping strategies and positive affirmation significantly influence individual stress-related growth. The trauma event (COVID-19) does not significantly affect growth. Women experience trauma compared to men, besides active coping with the COVID-19 situation is higher in men than women. Using the Bio-centric perspective, having a positive connection through acceptance and awareness of the situation, self-care, and affective interaction with others would develop growth regarding traumatic situations. Further, interventions about coping skills and positive affirmations are essential to give, especially to vulnerable groups such as women.
Highlights
COVID-19 cases were reported for the first time in December 2019 in Wuhan, China (Wang et al, 2020)
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced the Covid-19 outbreak as a global pandemic, after 118,000 confirmed cases and 4,291 reported deaths occurred in 114 countries (World Health Organization, 2020a,b)
Starting from July 28, 2019, Indonesia’s COVID cases reached 102,051 people identified as having positive COVID-19, 60,539 of them recovered, and 4,901 died (Gugus Tugas Penanganan COVID-19 [Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19], 2020)
Summary
COVID-19 cases were reported for the first time in December 2019 in Wuhan, China (Wang et al, 2020). As the number of positive confirmed cases and death rates related to COVID-19 increases, their effects on individuals and society’s psychological and economic conditions increase (Boyraz and Legros, 2020). Respondents of the female sex, respondents with student status, and respondents with certain physical symptoms and low health levels show higher stress levels, anxiety, and depression (Wang et al, 2020) In line with these results, research conducted on 1,115 respondents in Turkey showed the effects that COVID-19 influenced psychological conditions, including feelings of depression, loneliness, fear of death, lack of hope, sadness, anxiety about the future, and feelings of worthlessness (Ustun, 2020). The current study sets a significant purpose to test the model whether post-traumatic stress and coping strategies affect stressrelated growth regarding the COVID-19 event. Gender moderates the relationship coping strategies, and stress-related growth
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