The role of cognitive flexibility and hope in the relationship between loneliness and psychological adjustment: a moderated mediation model
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Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused people to suffer from secondary problems such as
social isolation and loneliness as well as experiencing anxiety about catching and spreading
the virus. Existing research emphasizes the roles of cognitive flexibility and hope for psychological
adjustment but the mediating and moderating mechanisms have not yet been
researched widely. Therefore, this study examined whether hope mediated the relationship
between loneliness and psychological adjustment problems and whether cognitive flexibility
moderated this mediation effect of hope in the relationship between loneliness and psychological
adjustment problems during the COVID-19 pandemic curfew in Turkey.
Methods: A total of 512 Turkish students and young adults completed UCLA Loneliness Scale,
Brief Psychological Adjustment Scale, Dispositional Hope Scale, and Cognitive Flexibility
Inventory for this cross-sectional study.
Results: The results indicated that loneliness had a significant and positive predictive effect on
the psychological adjustment problems and that this relationship was partially mediated by
hope. Further, psychological flexibility moderated the relationship between loneliness and
hope.
Conclusions: The current study contributes a better understanding of the influence of loneliness
on psychological adjustment, especially during the COVID-19 curfew period.
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