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Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness.
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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has produced an unprecedented impact on all aspects of life, including mental outcomes like death distress. This study examined the mediating effect of positivity on the association between COVID-19 related perceived risk, death distress, and happiness. Participants were 3109 Turkish adults (Mean age = 38.64 ± 10.40) who completed online measures of perceived risk, positivity, death distress, and happiness during the pandemic. Results showed that perceived risk had a significant direct effect on positivity, death distress, and happiness. Positivity had a significant direct effect on death distress and happiness. Mediation analysis indicated that positivity mediated the effect of perceived risk on death distress and happiness. Results suggest that positivity is an important aspect of developing strength-based preventions and interventions aiming to reduce psychological distress and improve happiness.
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“Current research has already established the critical role of psychological flexibility and positive life orientations, two dispositional characteristics, toward a better adjustment to life adversities (Trzebiński et al., 2020; Yıldırım and Güler, 2021).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yıldırım, M., & Güler, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Yıldırım, Murat
- Venue
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-01
- Volume
- 168
- Pages
- 110347
- ISSN
- 0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7439822
- OpenAlex
- W3055273738
- Cited by
- 241
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 69 · 2021: 62
- FWCI
- 18.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University Institutional Repository (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, risk perception, positivity, happiness, psychological distress, mediation, strengths-based intervention, Turkish adults
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