scholarly journals Schoolteachers' Resilience Does but Self-Efficacy Does Not Mediate the Influence of Stress and Anxiety Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic on Depression and Subjective Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inn-Kyu Cho ◽  
Jihoon Lee ◽  
Kyumin Kim ◽  
Joohee Lee ◽  
Sangha Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Efficacy ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
High Level ◽  
School Tasks

Objectives: In the current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, schoolteachers experience stress from addressing students or performing school tasks that may result in burnout. This study aimed to observe whether teachers' stress and anxiety due to the pandemic can influence their depression or psychological well-being and examine whether their resilience or self-efficacy mediates this association.Methods: During March 4–15, 2021, 400 teachers participated and responded voluntarily to an online survey that included the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-9 items (SAVE-9), the Teacher-Efficacy Scale, the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), the WHO-5 Well-Being Index, and the Patients Health Questionnaire-9 items.Results: High psychological well-being of teachers in COVID-19 pandemic era was expected by a low SAVE-9 score (aOR = 0.95; 95% CI, 0.91–0.99), a high level of self-efficacy (aOR = 1.03; 95% CI, 1.01–1.06), and a high BRS score (aOR = 1.18; 95% CI, 1.10–1.27). Moreover, teachers' resilience mediated the effects of stress and anxiety from the COVID-19 pandemic on their subjective well-being or depression.Conclusions: Schoolteachers' subjective well-being and depression were influenced by high levels of stress and anxiety of the viral epidemic, and their resilience mediated this relationship in this COVID-19 pandemic era.

scholarly journals Mediation Effect of Self-Efficacy and Resilience on the Psychological Well-Being of Lebanese People During the Crises of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Beirut Explosion

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihoon Hong ◽  
Hussein Walid Mreydem ◽  
Bayan Tarek Abou Ali ◽  
Nada Omar Saleh ◽  
Sajida Fawaz Hammoudi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
General Self Efficacy

Introduction: Self-efficacy signifies an individual's belief in their own ability to perform the actions required to achieve a particular performance. In this study, we used an online survey to assess the mediation effect of resilience and self-efficacy on the overall psychological well-being of Lebanese people during the crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Beirut explosion.Methods: Overall, 567 Lebanese people participated in an online survey between March 17–28, 2021. The survey included the Stress and Anxiety to Viral Epidemics-6 items (SAVE-6), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale-2 items, WHO-5 Well-being Index, General Self-Efficacy scale, and a single item on insomnia. We also assessed their risk perception regarding exposure to COVID-19 or explosions.Results: About 53% of participants were assessed as having depression (PHQ-9 ≥ 10) in the recent crisis. About half of participants (53.2%) reported feeling more stressed by COVID-19 than by the Beirut explosion, and 23.4% felt more stressed by the Beirut explosion than by COVID-19. Only the SAVE-6 score differed significantly between groups with greater stress responses to COVID-19 and the Beirut explosion. Self-efficacy mediated the influence of depression on people's psychological well-being, and self-efficacy and resilience mediated the influence of viral anxiety on psychological well-being.Conclusion: Self-efficacy is important for reducing people's depression and improving their psychological well-being during the Lebanon crises and also mediates the influence of anxiety in response to the viral epidemic on their psychological well-being in some people.

PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF THE DYAD OF PARTNERS WITH DISABILITIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Natalya Shipova ◽  
Ulyana Sevastyanova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Level

The relevance of the scientific problem and the scientific novelty are due to the social demand of society for studying problems related to the subjective well-being of people with disabilities. The focus of our attention is the psychological well-being of dyads in close relationships (romantic or marital). The aim of the study is to analyze the psychological well-being in a dyad of partners who are in close relationships. The article analyzes the characteristics inherent in close relations of couples in which one of the partners has a disability. Using the Scale of Adaptation and Cohesion (FACES-3)), the levels of adaptation and cohesion of the dyads were revealed. Methods Quality of life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire examines quality of life and subjective well-being, assesses the degree of subjective satisfaction with emotional and social spheres, health, activity in free time. Particularly analyzed data of a semi-structured interview. Empirically revealed differences in the understanding of their own close relationships depending on the health status of the partner. Dyads, including partners with disabilities, demonstrate a high level of satisfaction, average cohesion values, partial balance. The study is complex, and now there is a clear prospect for its continuation.  

scholarly journals Correlations Between Personality, Affective and Filial Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and Psychological Well-Being in a Sample of Italian Adolescents

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Tommasi ◽  
Paola Grassi ◽  
Michela Balsamo ◽  
Laura Picconi ◽  
Adrian Furnham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
High Level ◽  
Italian Adolescents

Adolescence is a critical period for the emergence of a balanced personality in adults. Extraversion, neuroticism, and affective self-efficacy beliefs in emotion regulation showed to be good predictors of psychological well-being in adolescents. We analyzed the association between affective self-efficacy beliefs, personality traits, and psychological well-being of 179 Italian adolescents. We also analyzed the connection between adolescents’ filial self-efficacy beliefs and psychological well-being and possible moderating effects of self-efficacy beliefs on personality traits. Results show that extraversion, neuroticism, and self-efficacy beliefs in emotion regulation are correlated with psychological well-being, while filial self-efficacy does not. Self-efficacy beliefs do not show significant moderating effects on personality traits, even if self-efficacy beliefs in expressing positive emotions reduce negative characteristics of individuals with high level of psychoticism.

scholarly journals SELECTED CORRELATES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN CANDIDATES FOR THE PEER SUPPORT WORKERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Zalewska-Łunkiewicz ◽  
◽  
Agata Chudzicka-Czupała ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Post Discharge ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
And Coping

The situation of mental crisis and psychiatric hospitalization is a difficult one, which may be described in the category of stress that affects individuals’ subjective well-being. Also the post-discharge period, the time of recovery, is related to the necessity of coping with many difficulties-stigma, treatment, occupational problems. The aim of the study was to assess the levels of perceived distress during the time of psychiatric hospitalisation and in post-discharge period, coping strategies, self- efficacy and also associations of these variables with subjective well-being in people who prepare to the role of peer support workers. The pilot study covered a group of 35 subjects -participants of one of the first realised in Poland workshop for peer support workers. The following questionnaires were used: Psychological Well-Being PWB, The General Self-Efficacy Scale GSES, Distress Thermometer DT, Brief-COPE. The results point to the existence of the associations of subjective well-being in future peer support workers and their difference of distress appraisal between the time of crisis and the time of recovery, self-efficacy and the complex set of coping with stress strategies. The research demonstrates that further empirical explorations are justified of the subjective well-being and coping of individuals after a psychiatric hospitalization crisis, who wish to help other mental disorder sufferers. Key words: health assistants, subjective well-being, self-efficacy, coping with stress

scholarly journals An exploratory study on Turkish EFL pre-service teachers’ subjective wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-150
Author(s):  
Gökçe Kurt ◽  
Burcu Demir ◽  
Derin Atay
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Study Data ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
High Level ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Nature Of Teaching

Subjective well-being (SWB) has been an intensely studied domain of psychology, predominantly in the field of positive psychology. Due to the nature of teaching as an intellectually, physically and emotionally demanding profession, the last few decades have also witnessed a growing interest in teachers? SWB. The pres?ent study investigated pre-service teachers? (PTs) SWB and explored its relationship to teaching efficacy beliefs and occupational anxiety. A total of 261 PTs enrolled in English Language Teaching departments of five different universities in Turkey participated in the study. Data came from the scales of SWB, teachers? self-efficacy beliefs and occupational anxiety. The findings indicated that PTs had a high level of perceived SWB; female PTs had a significantly higher level of SWB than male ones; PTs? academic year and the type of university they were enrolled in had no signif?icant relationship with their SWB; and both self-efficacy beliefs and occupational anxiety served as significant predictors of PTs? SWB, together explaining 16.2% of the variance in their scores.

scholarly journals Happiness and pro-environmental consumption behaviors

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung Vu Nguyen ◽  
Mai Thi Thu Le ◽  
Chuong Hong Pham ◽  
Susie S. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environmental Messages ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

PurposeThis paper employs the theoretical foundations for subjective well-being to examine the impacts of two underlying dimensions of subjective well-being (psychological well-being and social well-being) on pro-environmental consumption behaviors (PECBs). In this research, the moderating role of exposure to positive environmental messages on media in the relationship between subjective well-being and PECBs is also examined.Design/methodology/approachThis research uses a quantitative research method with data collected from an online survey questionnaire posted in Facebook groups related to PECBs in Vietnam.FindingsPsychological well-being and social well-being are found to be separate significant predictors of PECBs. More importantly, exposure to positive environmental messages on media was found to reinforce the impacts of psychological well-being on PECB but not moderate the relationship between social well-being and PECB.Originality/valueThis research offers a new insight for encouraging PECB from the perspective of subjective well-being. Different from the extant perspectives, which usually examine subjective well-being as a unidimensional antecedent of PECB, the authors highlight that subjective well-being can influence PECB in two separate dimensions. Moreover, this research extends existing literature by accentuating the role of exposure to environmental messages in the association between different types of social well-being and PECB.

Do Health Questionnaires Which Do Not Consider Sex Differences Miss Important Information?

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Gibson ◽  
M. J. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
General Health ◽  
General Health Questionnaire ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Questionnaire ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Health Questionnaires

The influence of gender on subsets of scores of Sense of Coherence, Hardiness, and personality traits was assessed in relation to psychological well-being using the Sense of Coherence Questionnaire, the Dispositional Resilience Scale, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. In a sample of Open University students (67 men aged 21 to 71 years and 239 women aged 19 to 66 years) sex differences were found in subsets of scores of Sense of Coherence, Hardiness, personality, and psychological well-being.

scholarly journals Impact of the COVID-19 Italian Lockdown on the Physiological and Psychological Well-Being of Children with Fragile X Syndrome and Their Families

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 5752
Author(s):  
Elisa Di Giorgio ◽  
Roberta Polli ◽  
Marco Lunghi ◽  
Alessandra Murgia
Keyword(s):  
Fragile X Syndrome ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Fragile X ◽  
Well Being ◽  
External Support ◽  
Sleep Habits ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Perception Of Self

On 10 March 2020, in Italy, a total lockdown was put in place to limit viral transmission of COVID-19 infection as much as possible. Research on the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted detrimental effects in children and their parents. However, little is known about such effects in children with neurodevelopment disorders and their caregivers. The present study investigated how the lockdown has impacted the physiological and psychological well-being of children with Fragile X-Syndrome (FXS), aged from 2 to 16 years, and their mothers. In an online survey, 48 mothers of FXS children reported their perception of self-efficacy as caregivers and, at the same time, their children’s sleep habits, behavioral and emotional difficulties during, and retrospectively, before the lockdown. Results showed a general worsening of sleep quality, and increasing behavioral problems. Although mothers reported a reduction in external support, their perception of self-efficacy as caregivers did not change during the home confinement compared to the period before. Overall, the present study suggested that specific interventions to manage sleep problems, as well as specific therapeutic and social support for increasing children and mother psychological well-being, need to be in place to mitigate the long-term effects of a lockdown.

scholarly journals Correlates of Psychological Distress Among Pakistani Adults During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Parallel and Serial Mediation Analyses

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzana Ashraf ◽  
Gull Zareen ◽  
Aasia Nusrat ◽  
Amna Arif ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
High Level

Objective: The global outbreak of COVID-19 has greatly affected individual's lives around the world and resulted in various negative psychological consequences. During the pandemic, reflection on and attention to COVID-19 may help in dealing with its symptomology but frequent and persistent thoughts about the situation can be unhealthy. The present study examined the direct and indirect associations between obsession concerning COVID-19, psychological distress, life satisfaction, and meaning in life.Design: This mediation study presents a primary analysis of normative data collected after the initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Pakistan. Parametric bootstrapping was used to test the mediation models of subjective well-being, the extent of the effect, and meaning in life as parallel and serial mediators concerning the associations between COVID-19 obsession and psychological distress measures.Setting: A sample of 1,002 adults (45% men and 55% women) were recruited utilizing an online survey between April to May 2020. They were aged between 19 and 45 years (M = 24.30, SD = 7.29) and normalized on population characteristics.Results: Two out of three mediators in parallel mediation fully mediated the relationship between obsession and psychological distress (total effect = 0.443, SE = 0.050, p < 0.0001) illustrating that high-level obsessions were associated with low levels of satisfaction with life and presence of meaning in life and search for meaning in life. Psychological distress is likely to decrease in the presence of a high level of satisfaction with life and meaning. Moreover, satisfaction with life and search for meaning in life significantly mediated the association between COVID-19 obsession (z=-3.507, p < 0.0001 and z = −2.632, p < 0.001 respectively).Conclusion: The present study showed that life satisfaction and search for meaning in life may play a significant role in decreasing psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS) Scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 352-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Bonino ◽  
Federica Graziano ◽  
Martina Borghi ◽  
Davide Marengo ◽  
Giorgia Molinengo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Rasch Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
And Coping

Abstract. This research developed a new scale to evaluate Self-Efficacy in Multiple Sclerosis (SEMS). The aim of this study was to investigate dimensionality, item functioning, measurement invariance, and concurrent validity of the SEMS scale. Data were collected from 203 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (mean age, 39.5 years; 66% women; 95% having a relapsing remitting form of MS). Fifteen items of the SEMS scale were submitted to patients along with measures of psychological well-being, sense of coherence, depression, and coping strategies. Data underwent Rasch analysis and correlation analysis. Rasch analysis indicates the SEMS as a multidimensional construct characterized by two correlated dimensions: goal setting and symptom management, with satisfactory reliability coefficients. Overall, the 15 items reported acceptable fit statistics; the scale demonstrated measurement invariance (with respect to gender and disease duration) and good concurrent validity (positive correlations with psychological well-being, sense of coherence, and coping strategies and negative correlations with depression). Preliminary evidence suggests that SEMS is a psychometrically sound measure to evaluate perceived self-efficacy of MS patients with moderate disability, and it would be a valuable instrument for both research and clinical applications.

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