Can Resilience Buffer the Effects of Loneliness on Mental Distress Among Working-Age Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Latent Moderated Structural Modeling Analysis.
Can Resilience Buffer the Effects of Loneliness on Mental Distress Among Working-Age Adults in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Latent Moderated Structural Modeling Analysis.
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10.1007/s12529-022-10151-0
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2023-12
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孤独对健康的深远影响是众所周知的。然而，在COVID-19大流行期间，对可能减轻孤独对心理健康影响的保护因素知之甚少，尤其是在工作年龄的成年人中。我们借鉴社会生态学的弹性和弹性因素是否可以缓冲孤独对精神痛苦的影响。数据来自国家幸福感调查，这是一项对美国工作年龄成年人（N = 4014）的人口统计学代表性样本的全国性研究。我们使用（a）结构方程模型与潜变量来检查的主要影响孤独，心理弹性，感知社会支持的精神困扰，和（B）潜在的调节结构方程估计潜在的相互作用的影响。结果表明：（a）孤独感与心理困扰呈正相关，心理弹性与心理困扰呈负相关;（B）心理弹性和领悟社会支持对孤独感与心理困扰的关系强度起调节作用。我们的研究强调了心理弹性和感知的社会支持作为两个保护因素在孤独和精神困扰之间的关系的重要性。鉴于孤独感显著预示着更差的心理和身体健康以及更高的死亡率，确定可能破坏这些联系的保护因素至关重要。因此，迫切需要开展公共卫生工作，加强和扩大家庭和社区社会支持网络，培养心理复原力，以便在新一轮大流行或未来类似压力因素期间支持工作年龄成年人的心理健康。在线版本包含补充材料，可通过10.1007/s12529-022-10151-0获得。
The profound health consequences of loneliness are well-established. However, less is known about the protective factors which may alleviate the effects of loneliness on mental health especially among working-age adults amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on the social ecology of resilience and examine whether resilience factors can buffer the effects of loneliness on mental distress. Data came from the National Well-being Survey—a national study of a demographically representative sample of U.S. working-age adults (N = 4014). We used (a) structural equation models with latent variables to examine the main effects of loneliness, psychological resilience, and perceived social support on mental distress, and (b) latent moderated structural equations to estimate the latent interaction effects. Results revealed that (a) loneliness was positively associated with mental distress and psychological resilience was negatively related to mental distress, and (b) psychological resilience and perceived social support moderated the strength of the relationship between loneliness and mental distress. Our study highlights the importance of psychological resilience and perceived social support as two protective factors in the relationship between loneliness and mental distress. Given that loneliness significantly predicts worse mental and physical health and higher mortality, identifying protective factors that might disrupt these connections is vital. As such, public health efforts to strengthen and expand familial and community social support networks and foster psychological resilience are urgently needed to support mental health among working-age adults during additional waves of the pandemic or future similar stressors. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12529-022-10151-0.