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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1400267

The chain mediating effects of resilience and perceived social support in the relationship between perceived stress and depression in patients with COVID-19

Provisionally accepted
Lingling Wang Lingling Wang 1Jing Yu Jing Yu 2*Xuqian Diao Xuqian Diao 1*Yuanbei Zhang Yuanbei Zhang 1*Ye Miao Ye Miao 3*Wei He Wei He 1*
  • 1 Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China
  • 2 986 Hospital of Air Force Meical University, Xi'an, China
  • 3 Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

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    Perceived stress and depression were indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in square-cabin hospitals. It was paramount to understand their mediating effects, which might detonate factors that led to mental illness. We conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate perceived stress and depressive symptoms among patients with COVID-19 in Shanghai square-cabin hospitals from April 18 to May 19, 2022. The questionnaire included the Perceived Stress Scale 10, Patient Health Questionnaire 9, Perceived Social Support Scale, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10. This study investigated the chain-mediating roles of perceived social support and resilience in the relationship between perceived stress and depression. Perceived stress positively predicted depression (r = 0.613, p < 0.01), negatively correlated with perceived social support (r = --0.318, p < 0.01) and resilience (r = --0.398, p < 0.01). In the moderated mediating model, perceived stress had significant direct predictive effects on depression, and significant indirect predictive effects on depression through perceived social support and/or resilience. It showed that higher perceived social support and resilience were associated with lower perceived stress among COVID-19 patients, which might lead to symptoms of mild depression, and highlights the importance of resilience training in reducing depressive symptoms.

    Keywords: resilience, Depression, perceived social support, perceived stress, COVID-19 patients, chain mediating effect Font: Italic Formatted: Font: Italic

    Received: 18 Mar 2024; Accepted: 09 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wang, Yu, Diao, Zhang, Miao and He. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Jing Yu, 986 Hospital of Air Force Meical University, Xi'an, China
    Xuqian Diao, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China
    Yuanbei Zhang, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China
    Ye Miao, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
    Wei He, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, China

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