Psychological capital and alienation among patients with COVID-19 infection: the mediating role of social support

Virology Journal

Research

Ci Tian¹  Lu Li²  Qing-yi Wang³  Yu-hai Zhang⁴  Hong-li Zhang⁵  Chun-yan He⁵  Chao Wu⁵  Jia-ran Yan⁵  Hong-juan Lang⁵  Nana Chen⁶ 

[1]Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, The 305Th Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

[2]Department of Anesthesia Intensive Care Unit, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Shaanxi, China

[3]Department of Foreign Languages, School of Basic Medicine, No.169 Changle West Road, 710032, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

[4]Department of Health Statistics, Fourth Military Medical University, No.169 Changle West Road, 710032, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

[5]Department of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, No.169 Changle West Road, 710032, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

[6]Troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, 32280, Sichuan, China

关键词: Patients with COVID-19 infection;    Psychological capital;    Social support;    Social alienation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12985-023-02055-6

 received in 2022-12-29, accepted in 2023-04-26,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundCOVID-19 infection continues all over the world, causing serious physical and psychological impacts to patients. Patients with COVID-19 infection suffer from various negative emotional experiences such as anxiety, depression, mania, and alienation, which seriously affect their normal life and is detrimental to the prognosis. Our study is aimed to investigate the effect of psychological capital on alienation among patients with COVID-19 and the mediating role of social support in this relationship.MethodsThe data were collected in China by the convenient sampling. A sample of 259 COVID-19 patients completed the psychological capital, social support and social alienation scale and the structural equation model was adopted to verify the research hypotheses.ResultsPsychological capital was significantly and negatively related to the COVID-19 patients’ social alienation (p < .01). And social support partially mediated the correlation between psychological capital and patients’ social alienation (p < .01).ConclusionPsychological capital is critical to predicting COVID-19 patients’ social alienation. Social support plays an intermediary role and explains how psychological capital alleviates the sense of social alienation among patients with COVID-19 infection.

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