Investigation of the effects of coronavirus and social isolation on psychological symptoms in terms of psychological resilience and coping styles

Abstract

Objective: IThe aim of this study is to determine the psychological symptoms scores, before and after the corona virus pandemic (COVID-19), and social isolation. Furthermore, it aims to examine the relationships between psychological symptom scores emerging after COVID-19 and social isolation, and styles of coping with stress, psychological resilience scores, and perceptions, and attitudes regarding COVID-19 and social isolation; and to determine to predict the level of psychological symptoms of these three variables. Method: It was applied online psychological symptoms, psychological resilience, stress coping scales and questions regarding COVID-19 to the participants, who consisted of 1245 people, 1212 female (81.3%) and 233 (18.7%) male, between the ages of 18-74. Results: A high level of significant difference was found in favor of after COVID-19 symptom scores between the participants' mean psychological symptom scores before and after COVID-19 and social isolation. They were determined significant correlations between symptom scores after COVID-19 and psychological resilience, coping styles with stress and perceptions and attitudes regarding COVID-19. It was predicted range from 23.8% to 40.2% the psychological symptoms, by psychological resilience, dysfunctional coping with stress, and the level of perception and attitudes regarding COVID-19. Discussion: While COVID-19 and social isolation and dysfunctional coping with stress have a disruptive effect on the psychological symptoms of individuals, psychological resilience has a protective effect. This study is thought to will contribute to the psychological intervention plans to be applied intended to the psychological effects of the COVID-19.