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Open Access 01-12-2023 | COVID-19 | Research

Psychological capital and alienation among patients with COVID-19 infection: the mediating role of social support

Authors: Chao Wu, Chun-yan He, Jia-ran Yan, Hong-li Zhang, Lu Li, Ci Tian, Nana Chen, Qing-yi Wang, Yu-hai Zhang, Hong-juan Lang

Published in: Virology Journal | Issue 1/2023

Abstract

Background

COVID-19 infection continues all over the world, causing serious physical and psychological impacts to patients. Patients with COVID-19 infection suffer from various negative emotional experiences such as anxiety, depression, mania, and alienation, which seriously affect their normal life and is detrimental to the prognosis. Our study is aimed to investigate the effect of psychological capital on alienation among patients with COVID-19 and the mediating role of social support in this relationship.

Methods

The data were collected in China by the convenient sampling. A sample of 259 COVID-19 patients completed the psychological capital, social support and social alienation scale and the structural equation model was adopted to verify the research hypotheses.

Results

Psychological capital was significantly and negatively related to the COVID-19 patients’ social alienation (p < .01). And social support partially mediated the correlation between psychological capital and patients’ social alienation (p < .01).

Conclusion

Psychological capital is critical to predicting COVID-19 patients’ social alienation. Social support plays an intermediary role and explains how psychological capital alleviates the sense of social alienation among patients with COVID-19 infection.

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Title: Psychological capital and alienation among patients with COVID-19 infection: the mediating role of social support
Authors: Chao Wu
Chun-yan He
Jia-ran Yan
Hong-li Zhang
Lu Li
Ci Tian
Nana Chen
Qing-yi Wang
Yu-hai Zhang
Hong-juan Lang
Publication date: 01-12-2023
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: COVID-19
Published in: Virology Journal / Issue 1/2023
Electronic ISSN: 1743-422X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-023-02055-6

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