Threat Appraisal, Resilience, and Health Behaviors in Recovered COVID-19 Patients: The Serial Mediation of Coping and Meaning-Making

Dariusz Krok, Ewa Telka, Małgorzata Szcześniak and Adam Falewicz ()
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Dariusz Krok: Institute of Psychology, University of Opole, 45-052 Opole, Poland
Ewa Telka: Department of Radiotherapy, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch, 44-101 Gliwice, Poland
Małgorzata Szcześniak: Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland
Adam Falewicz: Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, 71-017 Szczecin, Poland

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Research indicates that both cognitive appraisal and personal resources can noticeably influence health behaviors, as individuals modify their health convictions and practices on the basis of threat appraisal, personality, and meaning. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether coping strategies and meaning-making can serially mediate the relationship of threat appraisal and resilience with health behaviors in recovered COVID-19 patients. Self-report measures of threat appraisal, resilience, coping, meaning-making, and health behaviors were completed by 266 participants (aged 17 to 78, 51.5% female) who had recovered from COVID-19. The serial mediation analysis showed that the relationship of threat appraisal and resilience with health behaviors was mediated by problem-focused coping, meaning-focused coping, and meaning-making, but not by emotion-focused coping. These results suggest that associations among threat perception, resilience, and health behavior depend to some extent on the interplay of coping and meaning-making, which reveals their unique role in the process of recovery from COVID-19, with potential implications for health interventions.

Keywords: threat appraisal; coping strategies; resilience; health behaviors; meaning-making; recovered COVID-19 patients (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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