Future Anxiety Under Covid-19 Circumstances: Testing The Effect Of Gratitude And Mediating Role Of Threat Perception

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dc.contributor.authorDemirdağ, Ahmet
dc.contributor.authorHasdağ, Derya
dc.contributor.authorUlutaş, Elif
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-30T19:03:52Z
dc.date.available2025-01-30T19:03:52Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe Covid-19 outbreak increased the importance of dispositional qualities and easy-touse self-help strategies to promote mental well-being. Previous research indicate that disposition to gratitude enhances well-being by protecting mental health. However, evidence for the efcacy of gratitude-inducing interventions in preventing psychological problems is mixed. Further, data on the gratitude-well-being link under Covid-19 circumstances are inconclusive. In the present reseach, we examined the role of trait gratitude and gratitude-listing intervention in alleviating future anxiety during the pandemic, and the mediating role of perceived realistic and symbolic threats from Covid19. In the rst study, a correlational study (N = 405), participants rated the predictor and outcome measures—the scales of gratitude, future anxiety, and perceived realistic and symbolic threats from Covid-19. In the second study, a pretest-posttest intervention study (N = 150), participants were randomly assigned to three conditions: to list grateful experiences or important daily life events every two days for a month, or to complete only the pretest and posttest measures. Results indicated that disposition to gratitude was associated with lower future anxiety (study-1), whereas the gratitude-listing intervention did not reduce this anxiety (study-2). Furthermore, in both studies, the perceived Covid-19 threats did not mediate the relationship between gratitude and future anxiety. Exploratory qualitative analyses of participants' gratitude lists and feedback in the second study showed that the pandemic situation hindered the benets of the intervention. Overall, the results suggest that trait gratitude is more strongly associated with alleviation of psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic than gratitude listing. This supports the accumulating data that gratitude interventions, while benecial for well-being, have limited effectiveness in reducing symptoms of ill-being, such as anxiety.
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.ankara.edu.tr/handle/20.500.12575/92171
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAnkara Üniversitesi
dc.subjectGratitude
dc.subjectGratitude Interventions
dc.subjectFuture Anxiety
dc.subjectSymbolic Threat
dc.subjectRealistic Threat
dc.subjectCovid-19
dc.titleFuture Anxiety Under Covid-19 Circumstances: Testing The Effect Of Gratitude And Mediating Role Of Threat Perception
dc.title.alternativeCovid-19 Koşullarinda Gelecek Kaygisi: Minnettarliğin Etkisi Ve Tehdit Algisinin Araci Rolünün Test Edilmesi
dc.typeArticle

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