Sense of community and anxiety during a global pandemic: The role of world assumptions in couples.

Autor: Witting AB; School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA., Busby DM; School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA., Allen E; School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress [Stress Health] 2023 Dec; Vol. 39 (5), pp. 977-988. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 22.
DOI: 10.1002/smi.3235
Abstrakt: The current study was designed to examine the role of sense of community at the outset of COVID-19 pandemic-related shutdowns as a longitudinal predictor of anxiety in couples. We also sought to investigate whether self-reported changes in perceived levels of benevolent world assumptions would serve as an indirect conveyor of this association. Data were collected at three time points during the first 6-months of pandemic shutdowns in the US and the current study utilized responses from 535 heterosexual cisgender couples. Mplus was used to path model lagged associations between sense of community at wave 1, world assumptions at waves 1 and 2 and anxiety symptoms at all three waves for both partners. Findings demonstrated direct effects within men and women with a stronger sense of community at wave 1 relating to lower anxiety at waves 2, and within women this effect extended to wave 3. Further, we found that a higher sense of community at wave 1 in men associated with perceived strengthening of benevolent world assumptions at the next wave for men and women. We noted that perceived strengthened benevolent world assumptions at wave 2 associated with lower anxiety at wave 3 within men. Indirect effects showed that a stronger sense of community at wave 1 associated with lower anxiety at wave 3 within men.
(© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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