Coping during socio-political uncertainty.

Autor:	El Khoury-Malhame M; Department of Social and Education Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon., Bou Malhab S; Department of Natural Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.; Institut National de Sante Publique d'Epidemiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie, Liban (INSPECT-LB), Beirut, Lebanon., Chaaya R; Department of Social and Education Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon., Sfeir M; Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium., El Khoury S; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychiatry [Front Psychiatry] 2024 Jan 22; Vol. 14, pp. 1267603. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 22 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1267603
Abstrakt:	Introduction: Well-being of young adults is known to be compromised in times of significant changes, such as economic and political turmoil. This study focuses on university students in Lebanon during one of the most prominent social unrests of its modern history to determine potential understudied protective factors that would predict the youth capacity to strive. Methods: A sample of 489 university students were asked to fill an online survey including standardized questionnaires of wellbeing (WEMWBS), depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (HAM-A), intolerance of uncertainty (IUS-12), coping (Brief COPE) in addition to demographics and questions about their attitudes and future perspectives. Results: We found increased rates of mental distress, predominantly in women, with around 80% of the sample being highly intolerant to the uncertainty climate. Results unsurprisingly show that well-being negatively correlated with anxiety, depression and intolerance of uncertainty. Overall, mental distress was found to mediate the relation between uncertainty and wellbeing, and the relation between maladaptive coping and wellbeing. Students who were intolerant of uncertainty and who used maladaptive coping strategies were more likely develop anxiety and depression and subsequently report poorer wellbeing. Conversely, having adaptive strategies was directly linked to higher well-being. Discussion: In spite of increased distress, some university students managed to preserve their well-being within a climate of severe socio-political uprise. These findings suggest that modifying subjective experience of events and using soft skillset could alleviate young adults' emotional distress in unstable societies. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2024 El Khoury-Malhame, Bou Malhab, Chaaya, Sfeir and El Khoury.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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