Moderating role of compassion in the link between fear of Coronavirus disease and mental health among undergraduate students

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Virgilio E. Failoc-Rojas¹  Abbas Abdollahi²  Yasser Fakri Mustafa³  Wanich Suksatan⁴  Rumi Iqbal Doewes⁵  Indrajit Patra⁶  Haydar Abdulameer Marhoon⁷  Tawfeeq Abdulameer Hashim Alghazali⁸  Andrés Alexis Ramírez-Coronel⁹  Nermeen Singer^1,10  Abduladheem Turki Jalil^1,11  Saade Abdalkareem Jasim^1,12  Huichun Zhang^1,13 

[1] Centro de Investigación en Medicina Traslacional, Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, Lima, Peru;Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran;Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq;Faculty of Nursing, HRH Princess Chulabhorn College of Medical Science, Chulabhorn Royal Academy, Bangkok, Thailand;Faculty of Sport, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Kentingan, Surakarta, Indonesia;Independent Researcher, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India;Information and Communication Technology Research Group, Scientific Research Center, Al-Ayen University, Thi-Qar, Iraq;Islamic University, Najaf, Iraq;Laboratory of Psychometrics and Ethology and Health and Behavior Research Group, Universidad Católica de Cuenca, Ecuador;Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia;Universidad Nacional del Ecuador, Cuenca, Ecuador;Universidad de, Palermo, Argentina;Media and Children's Culture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;Medical Laboratories Techniques Department, Al-Mustaqbal University College, Babylon, Hilla, Iraq;Medical Laboratory Techniques Department, Al-Maarif University College, Al-Anbar-Ramadi, Iraq;Student Work Department of the Party Committee and Student Work Department, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China;

关键词: fear of COVID-19;    mental health;    self-compassion;    partial least squares;    university students;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2022.990678

 received in 2022-07-10, accepted in 2022-08-12,  发布年份 2022

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe societal challenges presented by fear related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic may present unique challenges for an individual's mental health. However, the moderating role of compassion in the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health has not been well-studied. The present study aimed to explore the association between fear of COVID-19 and mental health, as well as test the buffering role of compassion in this relationship.MethodsThe participants in this study were 325 Iranian undergraduate students (228 females), aged 18–25 years, who completed questionnaires posted on social networks via a web-based platform.ResultsThe results showed that fear of COVID-19 was positively related with physical symptoms, social function, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms. The results also showed that compassion was negatively associated with physical symptoms, social function, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms. The interaction-moderation analysis revealed that compassion moderated the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and subscale of mental health.ConclusionResults highlight the important role of compassion in diminishing the effect of fear of COVID-19 on the mental health (physical symptoms, social function, depressive symptoms, and anxiety symptoms) of undergraduate students.

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Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Jasim, Suksatan, Hashim Alghazali, Doewes, Jalil, Patra, Singer, Failoc-Rojas, Marhoon, Mustafa, Ramírez-Coronel and Abdollahi.