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

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 det...

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Published in:Virology journal 2023-06, Vol.20 (1), p.114-114, Article 114
Main Authors: Wu, Chao, He, Chun-Yan, Yan, Jia-Ran, Zhang, Hong-Li, Li, Lu, Tian, Ci, Chen, Nana, Wang, Qing-Yi, Zhang, Yu-Hai, Lang, Hong-Juan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affective disorders
Alienation (Philosophy)
Alienation (Social psychology)
Analysis
Anxiety
China
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Emotions
Epidemics
Health aspects
Humans
Hypotheses
Infection
Infections
Investigations
Loneliness
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Mental health
Optimism
Pandemics
Patients with COVID-19 infection
Prognosis
Psychological aspects
Psychological capital
Questionnaires
Social alienation
Social aspects
Social Capital
Social interactions
Social isolation
Social networks
Social Support
Society
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Summary: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. 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. Psychological capital was significantly and negatively related to the COVID-19 patients' social alienation (p 
ISSN:1743-422X
1743-422X
DOI:10.1186/s12985-023-02055-6