TY - JOUR
T1 - Distress and Resilience in Days of COVID-19
T2 - International Study of Samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines
AU - Kimhi, Shaul
AU - Eshel, Yohanan
AU - Adini, Bruria
AU - Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.
AU - Antazo, Benedict G.
AU - Briones-Diato, Alelie
AU - Reinert, Maurício
AU - da Silva, Juliano Domingues
AU - Verdu, Fabiane Cortez
AU - Marciano, Hadas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 SAGE Publications.
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - We compared three types of resilience (individual, community, and national resilience), two indicators of distress (sense of danger and distress symptoms) and wellbeing, among samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines, during the “first-wave” of COVID-19 pandemic. Though significant differences were found among the samples regarding all variables, similarities were also emerged. Individual resilience and wellbeing negatively predicted distress symptoms in each sample, and women of all samples reported higher level of distress-symptoms compared with men. The differences between the samples are presented and discussed. Understanding the similarities and the differences, between these cultures, may help developing efficient countermeasures tailored to each country. This knowledge may promote efficient health policy to foster people’s ability to cope with the hardship and to prevent future psychological and health implications.
AB - We compared three types of resilience (individual, community, and national resilience), two indicators of distress (sense of danger and distress symptoms) and wellbeing, among samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines, during the “first-wave” of COVID-19 pandemic. Though significant differences were found among the samples regarding all variables, similarities were also emerged. Individual resilience and wellbeing negatively predicted distress symptoms in each sample, and women of all samples reported higher level of distress-symptoms compared with men. The differences between the samples are presented and discussed. Understanding the similarities and the differences, between these cultures, may help developing efficient countermeasures tailored to each country. This knowledge may promote efficient health policy to foster people’s ability to cope with the hardship and to prevent future psychological and health implications.
KW - COVID-19
KW - cross-cultural comparisons
KW - distress symptoms
KW - resilience
KW - sense of danger
KW - wellbeing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109408622&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10693971211026806
DO - 10.1177/10693971211026806
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109408622
SN - 1069-3971
VL - 55
SP - 415
EP - 437
JO - Cross-Cultural Research
JF - Cross-Cultural Research
IS - 5
ER -