Open AccessPOSITIVITY AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) IN COVID-19 SURVIVORS: MEDIATING ROLE OF RUMINATION AND FEAR OF COVID-19
Author(s) -
Aykut Günlü,
Hayri Koç,
Esra Asıcı,
Tuncay Oral
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
psychiatria danubina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1849-0867
pISSN - 0353-5053
DOI - 10.24869/psyd.2022.578
Subject(s) - rumination , covid-19 , clinical psychology , psychology , mediation , pandemic , disease , medicine , psychiatry , cognition , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , law
COVID-19 pandemic, which still continues to affect the whole world, has led to an increase in PTSD symptoms in societies, especially individuals who have been diagnosed with the disease and recovered are at significant risk for PTSD have been reported. Although it has been observed that PTSD symptoms of individuals who were infected in the past epidemics such as SARS and Ebola continued for a long time even after the epidemic, it is noteworthy that the studies conducted during the COVID-19 process do not focus enough on people who survived the COVID-19 disease. The purpose of this study is to determine the direct and indirect impact of positivity on PTSD symptoms of individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 and the role of rumination and fear of COVID-19 as potential mediators in this effect.