The impact of resilience on the mental health of military personnel during the Covid-19 pandemic

Coping styles and regulatory focus

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22070533
AutoresFei Cao (0000-0001-8650-8072, Jiangnan University), Juan Li (0000-0002-8639-6100, Jiangnan University), Xin Wei (0000-0003-0976-3381, Chinese PLA General Hospital), Wei Xin (0000-0001-6589-4488), Zhibing Yang (0000-0002-2296-050X), Yang Zhibing (0000-0002-7479-1963), Di Wu (0000-0002-1269-4260, Air Force Medical University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen11
Páginas1240047-1240047
Fecha de publicación2023-08-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFrontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565
EditorialFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpubh.2023.1240047
PMID37621610
OpenAlexW4385703632
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas65

Military personnel encountered multiple stressful events during the COVID-19 lockdown. Reducing non-combat attrition due to mental disorders is crucial for military morale and combat effectiveness. Grounded in stress theory and regulatory focus theory, this study investigates the influence of resilience on military personnel’s mental health; coping style and regulatory focus are considered potential mediators and moderators, respectively. We conducted a routine psychological assessment on 1,110 military personnel in China. The results indicate that: (1) resilience has a negative impact on the psychological symptoms of military groups; (2) mature and mixed coping styles in military personnel mediate the association between resilience and psychological symptoms; and (3) regulatory focus predominance has a negative moderating effect on mature coping styles’ effects on psychological symptoms. Furthermore, this study supports previous findings that resilience and mental health are interrelated; it demonstrates that military personnel can effectively reduce negative psychological symptoms by improving their resilience level and adopting mature coping styles under stressful situations. The current study presents interventional insights regarding coping styles and mental health from a self-regulatory perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus Infections · Disease · Environmental health · Mental health · Military personnel · Outbreak · Pandemic · Pathology · Political science · Psychiatry · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Resilience and Mental Health · Virology