Perceived social support, loneliness, and hope during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Testing a mediating model in the UK, USA, and Israel

CONCLUSIONS: Perceived social support may facilitate hope in dire times, possibly through the reduction of loneliness.PRACTITIONER POINTS: Findings are consistent with respect to the potentially protective role of perceived social support vis-à-vis hope. Perceived social support may increase hope through decreasing loneliness. In the UK, the above-noted mediating effect of loneliness appears to be stronger than in Israel and the USA. Elevated levels of perceived social support should serve as a desired outcome in individual and group psychotherapy, as well as in community based interventions.PMID:33624294 | DOI:10.1111/bjc.12285
Source: The British Journal of Clinical Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research