Spiritual Well-Being, Social Support, and Financial Distress in Determining Depression: The Mediating Role of Impact of Event During COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.754831
• Publication Date: 2021-10-28T08:15:28Z
• Authors: Hamid Sharif Nia; Ozkan Gorgulu; Navaz Naghavi; María Auxiliadora...; David Sánchez-Teruel; Fatemeh Khoshnava...; Long She; Pardis Rahmatpour; Kelly-Ann Allen; Gokmen Arslan; Saeed Pahlevan Sh...
• Keywords: Financial distress; Path analysis (statistics); Economics; 150; RC435-571; Macroeconomics; Social Sciences; Infectious disease (medical specialty); Iran; Anxiety; Psychological Distress; Social support; stress; 0302 clinical medicine; Psychology; Disease; Spiritual well-being; Internal medicine; Psychiatry; Depression; Depression (economics); Depressive symptoms; Statistics; 1. No poverty; 3. Good health; FOS: Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Mental Health; Health; Psychological Effects of Social Exclusion; depression; Medicine; Social Psychology; Well-being; Clinical psychology; 610; Psychological distress; Stress; Psychological Impact; 03 medical and health sciences; FOS: Mathematics; Pandemic; Well-Being; Distress; COVID-19; Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Health Outcomes; social support; financial distress; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health; Psychotherapist; spiritual well-being; Mathematics

This study investigates the relationship between spiritual well-being, social support, and financial distress with depressive symptoms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A path analysis was used to analyze data collected from 1,156 Iranian participants via an online survey. The results showed that spiritual well-being and social support were negatively related to depressive symptoms and financial distress. The impact of COVID-19 events showed negative associations with depressive symptoms. In addition, the link between spiritual well-being and financial distress with depressive symptoms was partially mediated by the impact of events.