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Title: Reframing prolonged negative mental health effects of COVID-19: cognitive restructuring promotes posttraumatic growth.
Authors: Matuz, András (AUTHOR), Gács, Boróka (AUTHOR), Birkás, Béla (AUTHOR)
Source: Psychology & Health. Mar2026, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p432-451. 20p.
Subjects: Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, Cross-sectional method, Self-evaluation, Cognitive restructuring therapy, Scale analysis (Psychology), Mental health, Cluster analysis (Statistics), Universities & colleges, Questionnaires, Research evaluation, Posttraumatic growth, College teachers, Treatment effectiveness, Psychological adaptation, Disease prevalence, Descriptive statistics, Chi-squared test, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Odds ratio, Psychometrics, Analysis of variance, Genetic mutation, Psychology of college students, Cognitive therapy, Psychological tests, Factor analysis, Comparative studies, Data analysis software, COVID-19 pandemic, Regression analysis, Impact of Event Scale
Abstract: Objective: The study aimed to investigate the level of peritraumatic distress in relation to possible traumatic outcomes in university personnel and students across three pandemic waves. Methods: Three cross-sectional surveys were conducted to investigate university students and staff (n = 1426). An online survey including the COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI), Ways of Coping, Impact of Events Scale (IES), and Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) were administered across three waves. Psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of CPDI were assessed and associations between peri/posttraumatic stress and coping were explored. Cluster analysis based on posttraumatic stress and growth was used to identify subgroups. Results: An increasing trend of peritraumatic stress over the waves was found. Regression analyses revealed that two coping styles, cognitive restructuring and problem analysis were negatively and positively associated, respectively, with both peritraumatic and posttraumatic stress. Two-step cluster analysis conducted on PTGI and IES scores yielded three clusters of posttraumatic changes: IES-low/PTGI-low, IES-high/PTGI-low and IES moderate/PTGI-high. Multinomial regression showed that cognitive restructuring and peritraumatic stress were significant predictors of cluster membership. Conclusion: Our findings point out that cognitive restructuring may be effective for dealing with longer-term psychological results of traumatic life events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, even in highly exposed groups of the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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