TY - JOUR
T1 - Conservation of Resources, Psychological Distress, and Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Egozi Farkash, Hadas
AU - Lahad, Mooli
AU - Hobfoll, Stevan E.
AU - Leykin, Dima
AU - Aharonson-Daniel, Limor
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the PREPARED Center for Emergency response research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2022 Egozi Farkash, Lahad, Hobfoll, Leykin and Aharonson-Daniel.
PY - 2022/8/31
Y1 - 2022/8/31
N2 - Objectives: The Conservation of Resources (COR) theory suggests that stress results from threatened or actual loss of resources following significant life events. This study used COR theory as the framework to explore the reflection of loss of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological distress and resilience, in an adult Jewish Israeli population. Methods: We examined the association between background variables, stress, loneliness, concern, COVID-19-related post traumatic symptoms (PTS), resilience factors and COR via an online survey among 2,000 adults during April 2020. Results: Positive relationships were identified between resource loss and PTS (r = 0.66, p < 0.01), and between resource gain and resilience (r = 0.30, p < 0.01). Psychological variables were significantly associated with PTS and explained 62.7% of the variance, F (20, 1,413) = 118.58, p < 0.001. Conclusion: Loss of resources, stress, loneliness and concern were found to be risk factors for distress and PTS, whereas resilience factors played a protective role. We thus recommend using the COR theory to explore COVID-19 effects elsewhere.
AB - Objectives: The Conservation of Resources (COR) theory suggests that stress results from threatened or actual loss of resources following significant life events. This study used COR theory as the framework to explore the reflection of loss of resources during the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological distress and resilience, in an adult Jewish Israeli population. Methods: We examined the association between background variables, stress, loneliness, concern, COVID-19-related post traumatic symptoms (PTS), resilience factors and COR via an online survey among 2,000 adults during April 2020. Results: Positive relationships were identified between resource loss and PTS (r = 0.66, p < 0.01), and between resource gain and resilience (r = 0.30, p < 0.01). Psychological variables were significantly associated with PTS and explained 62.7% of the variance, F (20, 1,413) = 118.58, p < 0.001. Conclusion: Loss of resources, stress, loneliness and concern were found to be risk factors for distress and PTS, whereas resilience factors played a protective role. We thus recommend using the COR theory to explore COVID-19 effects elsewhere.
KW - community resilience CCRAM
KW - Conservation of Resources theory
KW - COVID-19
KW - loneliness
KW - personal resilience
KW - resilience
KW - stress
KW - traumatic symptoms
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U2 - 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604567
DO - 10.3389/ijph.2022.1604567
M3 - Article
C2 - 36119444
AN - SCOPUS:85137978503
VL - 67
JO - International Journal of Public Health
JF - International Journal of Public Health
SN - 1661-8556
M1 - 1604567
ER -
