Abstract

RIBEIRO, Sofia et al. Psychological impact COVID-19: moderated-mediation effect of social support and of psychological flexibility. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.2, pp.632-643.  Epub Oct 31, 2023. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/23psd240217.

With the appearance of COVID-19 people had to deal with and adapt to the new reality as well as its psychological impacts, in particular stress. Perceived social support and psychological flexibility are components that can positively influence the stress caused by the context of the pandemic. This investigation was carried out with a portuguese sub-sample of the Impact of COVID-19 study (Gloster et al., 2020). A sociodemographic questionnaire was used, and the measures Mental Health Continuum-Short Form, Perceived Stress Scale, Oslo Social Support Scale and Measure of Psychological Flexibility (Psyflex). The results indicate that perceived stress is related to mental health, and perceived social support and psychological flexibility have a good predictive capacity for it. Perceived social support moderates the relationship between perceived stress and mental health, and psychological flexibility mediates the relationship between perceived stress and mental health. The realization of this study allowed to deepen our knowledge of the pandemic context, as well as the relationship between the variable mental health, perceived stress, perceived social support and psychological flexibility, and the moderating effect of perceived social support and mediator of psychological flexibility, in the relationship between perceived stress and mental health. These results may be useful for increasing and enriching the literature on the COVID-19 theme, the association of variables under study and scientific knowledge.

Keywords : COVID-19; Mental health; Perceived stress; Perceived social support; Psychological flexibility.

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