The Protective Role of Self-Efficacy for Resilience in the COVID-19 Period

Andrea Kövesdi, Éva Hadházi, Sándor Rózsa, Gábor Csikós, Krisztina Törő and Rita Földi
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church

Abstract

We perceived the COVID-19 pandemic as a stressful living condition when we launched our resilience research among parents and their children (11-18 years old) in Hungary in early April 2020. The ability of resilience (Masten, 1990) was a particularly topical issue for survival and recovery during the candidate period, when several new challenges had to be faced. Our study focuses on resilience, self-efficacy, and health anxiety. In our research, we also look for protective factors for parents and children. Our results demonstrate a positive significant association of parental resilience with quality of life, well-being, and self-efficacy. Negative significant association was found with perceived stress and health anxiety. Similar connections with parental relationships were demonstrated among children and adolescents. In the parental sample, we demonstrated that partly the perceived stress and partly the decrease in self-efficacy have a mediating effect on resilience. Health anxiety directly reduces resilience, and stress mediates the resilience. Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between health anxiety and resilience. Higher self-efficacy of the parents is a protective factor in terms of resilience to health anxiety.


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