The Relationship Between Perceived Social Support and Post-Traumatic Growth Among Medical Staff Three Weeks After the Policy Opening of COVID-19 Pandemic in China: Deliberate Rumination as Mediator

Huihui Ma, Yi Zhang, Hong Li and Tao Jiang

SAGE Open, 2024, vol. 14, issue 3, 21582440241255778

Abstract: In the context of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, medical staff have experienced traumatic stress events. Research on post-traumatic growth (PTG) was limited. We aimed to assess the relationship between perceived social support and PTG among medical staff 3 weeks after the policy opening of COVID-19 pandemic in Nanjing, China and explore the mediating roles of deliberate rumination. A multicenter study including a total of 842 medical staff was conducted at two general hospitals from December 10, 2022, to December 25, 2022, in Nanjing, China. SPSS was used for statistical description and univariate analysis, and AMOS was used for structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the medicating effect of deliberate social support on PTG. In the SEM, the total effect of perceived social support on PTG was significant (β = .332, 95% CI [0.259, 0.408], p  

Keywords: perceived social support; post-traumatic growth; rumination; mediating effect; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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