Workers’ individual and dyadic coping with the COVID-19 health emergency: A cross cultural study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Workers’ individual and dyadic coping with the COVID-19 health emergency: A cross cultural study

Published:2022-09-16 Issue:2 Volume:40 Page:551-575
ISSN:0265-4075
Container-title:Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Author:

Donato Silvia¹²^ORCID,Brugnera Agostino³,Adorni Roberta²,Molgora Sara¹²,Reverberi Eleonora¹²,Manzi Claudia¹²,Angeli Maria⁴,Bagirova Anna⁵,Benet-Martinez Veronica⁶,Camilleri Liberato⁷,Camilleri-Cassar Frances⁸,Kazasi Evi Hatzivarnava⁹,Meil Gerardo¹⁰,Symeonaki Maria¹¹,Aksu Ayça¹²,Batthyany Karina¹³,Brazienė Ruta¹⁴,Genta Natalia¹³,Masselot Annick¹⁵,Morrissey Suzy¹⁶

Affiliation:

1. Family Studies and Research University Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

2. Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

3. Department of Human and Social Sciences, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

4. Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

5. Department of Sociology and Public Administration Technologies, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation

6. Department of Political and Social Sciences, ICREA & Universidad Pompeu-Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

7. Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

8. Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

9. Center for Gender Studies, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

10. Department of Sociology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

11. Department of Social Policy, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

12. Department of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey

13. Department of Sociology, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

14. Department of Social Policy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

15. Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

16. Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine workers’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic as a function of their individual coping, dyadic coping, and work-family conflict. We also tested the moderating role of gender and culture in these associations. To achieve this aim, we run HLM analyses on data from 1521 workers cohabiting with a partner, coming from six countries (Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus, Greece, and Russia) characterized by various degrees of country-level individualism/collectivism. Across all six countries, findings highlighted that work-family conflict as well as the individual coping strategy social support seeking were associated with higher psychological distress for workers, while the individual coping strategy positive attitude and common dyadic coping were found to be protective against workers’ psychological distress. This latter association, moreover, was stronger in more individualistic countries.

Funder

Commissione Strategie di Ricerca – Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Communication,Social Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/02654075221119066

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