Promoting well-being in the face of a pandemic: The role of sense of coherence and ego-resilience in the relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction
Abstract
COVID-19 has impacted negatively on the lives and academic activities of university students.
This has contributed to increasing levels of psychological distress among this population group.
Intrinsic and contextual factors can mediate the psychological impact of the pandemic. The study
focuses on sense of coherence and ego-resilience as potential protective factors on indices of
psychological distress and life satisfaction. Participants were undergraduate students (N=337)
at a South African university who completed six self-report questionnaires, namely, the Beck
Hopelessness Scale, the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness Scale, the Center for
Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, the Sense of Coherence Scale, the Ego-Resilience Scale,
and the Satisfaction with Life Scale.