Travma Sonrası Büyüme Açısından Bir Risk Faktörü Olarak Psikolojik Sağlamlık: Koronavirüs Salgını Örneği

Authors : Yusuf BİLGE, Yıldız BİLGE

Pages : 312-325

Doi:10.31067/acusaglik.852182

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Publication Date : 2021-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the change in psychological symptoms that occur after the COVID-19 epidemic in terms of psychological resilience and posttraumatic growth. In addition, it was aimed to determine the mediating role of PS in the relationship between before COVID-19 psychological symptoms of individuals and their subsequent psychological symptoms. Method: It was applied psychological symptoms, psychological resilience, and posttraumatic growth scales to the participants, who consisted of 1245 people, 1212 female insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(81.3%);, and 233 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(18.7%); male, between the ages of 18-74 as online. Results: When the differences between the groups formed according to the change in symptom scores before and after COVID-19 were examined, it was found that the resilience score was significantly higher in favor of the group with no change, and the posttraumatic growth score in favor of the group with the positive change that compared to the other change groups. In the relationship between symptom score averages before and after COVID-19, resilience has been found to have a mediating effect in a direction that decreases symptom levels at rates ranging from 5.7% to 13%. Conclusion: In this study, although the coronavirus process had a negative effect on the psychological symptoms of individuals in total, it was observed that some individuals did not have any change in their psychological symptom scores, while in some individuals their symptom scores decreased. It was seen that resilience and posttraumatic growth can be evaluated as two different structures in traumatic experiences as the variables that make up this difference. The findings suggest that resilience is a protective factor against psychological symptoms deterioration in the coronavirus outbreak sample, on the other hand, it can be considered as a risk factor preventing the formation of posttraumatic growth.
Keywords : Posttraumatic growth, psychological resilience, psychological symptoms, COVID 19 pandemic