Resilience and spirituality as moderators between several concerns and psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to psychological stress caused with several threats such as the concerns for health, economic problems, and several others. This study aims to explore if the resilience and believes in spiritual support may moderate the relationship between the concerns, on one side, and stress and the attitudes toward anti-COVID-19 vaccines, on the other side. We conducted a study involving 235participants through an online survey during the March-April 2021 in Italy, immediately after the last lockdown from March 15 to April 6, 2021. Several scales were used measuring various difficulties and concerns, resilience, beliefs about spiritual support, beliefs about conspiracy, psychological stress and anxiety, and acceptance of the anti-COVID-19 vaccines. We found that resilience moderates the relationship between several concerns and psychological stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially among the participants who have strong beliefs in spiritual support.
Keywords: psychological stress, distress, resilience, spirituality, spiritual support, COVID-19
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