The relationships between resilience of the adults affected by the covid pandemic in Turkey and Covid-19 fear, meaning in life, life satisfaction, intolerance of uncertainty and hope

Zeynep Karataş; Özlem Tagay

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110592

The relationships between resilience of the adults affected by the covid pandemic in Turkey and Covid-19 fear, meaning in life, life satisfaction, intolerance of uncertainty and hope

Pers Individ Dif. 2021 Apr:172:110592. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110592. Epub 2020 Dec 14.

Authors

Zeynep Karataş¹, Özlem Tagay¹

Affiliation

¹ Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Education Faculty Education Sciences, Department Counseling and Guidance Programme, Turkey.

Abstract

The current study was conducted to investigate the association between the resilience of the adults affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and Covid-19 fear, meaning in life, life satisfaction, intolerance of uncertainty, hope gender, psychological trauma history and the presence of the individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 around. A total of 929 adults with the mean age of 41.58 participated in the current study. Findings from the study indicated that hope, meaning in life, life satisfaction, not having the experience of psychological trauma positively and significantly predict resilience while intolerance of uncertainty and Covid-19 fear negatively and significantly predict resilience. The presence of people diagnosed with Covid-19 and gender on the other hand were found to not significantly predict resilience.

Keywords: Covid-19 Fear; Hope; Intolerance of Uncertainty; Life Satisfaction; Meaning in Life; Resilience.