TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weiß, Martin
A1  - Rodrigues, Johannes
A1  - Hewig, Johannes
T1  - Big Five personality factors in relation to coping with contact restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a small sample study
JF  - Social Sciences
N2  - To slow down the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, countries worldwide severely restricted public and social life. In addition to the physical threat posed by the viral disease (COVID-19), the pandemic also has implications for psychological well-being. Using a small sample (N = 51), we examined how Big Five personality traits relate to coping with contact restrictions during three consecutive weeks in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We showed that extraversion was associated with suffering from severe contact restrictions and with benefiting from their relaxation. Individuals with high neuroticism did not show a change in their relatively poor coping with the restrictions over time, whereas conscientious individuals seemed to experience no discomfort and even positive feelings during the period of contact restrictions. Our results support the assumption that neuroticism is a vulnerability factor in relation to psychological wellbeing but also show an influence of contact restrictions on extraverted individuals.
KW  - Big Five
KW  - coping
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - positive affect
KW  - negative affect
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-290556
SN  - 2076-0760
VL  - 11
IS  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Braun, Alexandra
A1  - Evdokimov, Dimitar
A1  - Frank, Johanna
A1  - Pauli, Paul
A1  - Wabel, Thomas
A1  - Üçeyler, Nurcan
A1  - Sommer, Claudia
T1  - Relevance of Religiosity for Coping Strategies and Disability in Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome
JF  - Journal of Religion and Health
N2  - Coping strategies are essential for the outcome of chronic pain. This study evaluated religiosity in a cohort of patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), its effect on pain and other symptoms, on coping and FMS-related disability. A total of 102 FMS patients were recruited who filled in questionnaires, a subgroup of 42 patients participated in a face-to-face interview, and data were evaluated by correlation and regression analyses. Few patients were traditionally religious, but the majority believed in a higher existence and described their spirituality as "transcendence conviction". The coping strategy "praying-hoping" and the ASP dimension "religious orientation" (r = 0.5, P < 0.05) showed a significant relationship independent of the grade of religiosity (P < 0.05). A high grade of belief in a higher existence was negatively associated with the choice of ignoring as coping strategy (r = - 0.4, P < 0.05). Mood and affect-related variables had the highest impact on disability (b = 0.5, P < 0.05). In this cohort, the grade of religiosity played a role in the choice of coping strategies, but had no effects on health and mood outcome.
KW  - Fibromyalgia syndrome
KW  - religiosity
KW  - coping
KW  - disability
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-269135
SN  - 1573-6571
VL  - 61
IS  - 1
ER  -