COVID-19 non-death loss and acceptance coping: A 3-wave cross-lagged panel analysis |
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| Authors: | Alexander Scott English Junjie Sun Shuhong Xu Lu Zheng Qionghan Zhang Thomas Talhelm |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology, Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, China;2. Intercultural Institute, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China;3. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;4. School of Business Administration, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China;5. Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| Abstract: | Numerous individuals have lost loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic while millions of others have also experienced ongoing pervasive non-death loss. The understanding of how people deal with non-death loss is still relatively limited. Incorporating theory of coping and loss, this study examines the reciprocal relationship between non-death loss and acceptance coping. Based on the results of a cross-lagged panel model involving 314 participants in China, we found that before the end of the zero-Covid policy, non-death loss at Time 1 predicted less acceptance coping at Time 2, but in the opening up stage in late 2022, non-death loss at time 2 did not predict acceptance coping at time 3. The findings have significant implications for understanding the interplay between non-death loss and acceptance coping and highlights abrupt psychological changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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| Keywords: | coping strategies COVID-19 cross-lagged panel model non-death loss |
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