Emerging Adulthood in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Crises: Individual and Relational Resources

337 Pages·2023·6.777 MB·English

by  Sophie Leontopoulou, Antonella Delle Fave

Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology 17
Series Editor: Antonella Delle Fave
Sophie Leontopoulou
Antonella Delle Fave   Editors
Emerging Adulthood
in the COVID-19
Pandemic and Other
Crises: Individual
and Relational
Resources
Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive
Psychology
Volume 17
SeriesEditor
AntonellaDelleFave ,UniversityofMilano,Milano,Italy
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(cid:129)
Sophie Leontopoulou Antonella Delle Fave
Editors
Emerging Adulthood
in the COVID-19 Pandemic
and Other Crises: Individual
and Relational Resources
Editors
SophieLeontopoulou AntonellaDelleFave
DepartmentofPrimaryEducation DepartmentofPathophysiologyand
UniversityofIoannina Transplantation
Ioannina,Greece UniversityofMilano
Milano,Italy
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To my sister Stella, bright star, embodiment
of positivity and resilience.
Sophie Leontopoulou
To the memory of my parents Guido
and Giuseppina, daily models of resilient
navigation through life challenges.
Antonella Delle Fave
Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SophieLeontopoulouandAntonellaDelleFave
PartI OnCrises,EmergingAdults,andWell-being
2 DiscoveringandPursuingPurposeinTryingTimes. . . . . . . . . . . . 9
KendallCottonBronk
3 TheMeaningMakingoftheGreekCrisisThroughCollective
ExperiencesofEmergingAdults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
AthanasiaChalari
4 MentalHealthandInterpersonalRelationshipsinEmergingAdults
DuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic:AnInternationalOverview. . . . . 41
ArtemisZ.Giotsa
PartII ChallengesandResourcesinCopingwithCrisis:TheExperience
ofEmergingAdultsAcrossNations
5 MentalHealthandDailyExperienceofItalianCollegeStudents
DuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SilviaSanzò,FlaviaBorgonovo,GiuseppinaBernardelli,
andAntonellaDelleFave
6 Well-BeingofGreekUniversityStudentsDuringtheCOVID-19
Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
EiriniKarakasidou,GeorgiaRaftopoulou,AnnaPapadimitriou,
ChristosPezirkianidis,andAnastassiosStalikas
7 ExploringMeaning-MakingAmongUniversityStudentsinSouth
AfricaDuringtheCOVID-19Lockdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
AngelinaWilsonFadiji,ShingairaiChigeza,andPlacidiaShoko
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8 TheInterplayofGrowthMindsetandSelf-Compassionwith
PsychologicalResilienceAmongChineseEmergingAdults
DuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Chi-KeungChan,Zhi-TongJessieFang,Hin-WahChrisCheung,
TheresaSze-KiLuk,Kung-HoLeung,andXiaohanChen
9 Stress,Self-Efficacy,Resilience,andHappinessAmongMexican
EmergingAdultsDuringtheConfinementDuetoCOVID-19. . . . . 135
NormaIvonneGonzález-ArratiaLópez-FuentesandMarthaAdelina
TorresMuñoz
10 PerceivedParentalRearingBehaviors,Resilience,Loneliness,
andLifeSatisfactionAmongGreekEmergingAdults
DuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
AntoniaPapastylianouandVasileiaZerva
11 AStruggleforLove:EmergingAdults’RomanticRelationships
DuringtheCOVID-19Pandemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
NitzanScharf,YaelEnav,andMiriScharf
12 HopeintheFaceoftheGreekCrisis:IntergenerationalEchoes
ofIncomeandParentalInvolvementinEmergingAdulthood. . . . . 197
SophieLeontopoulouandMichaelChletsos
PartIII Well-being,ResourcesandInterventionsintheAcademic
Context
13 AcademicWell-BeingAmongEmergingAdultsDuringthe
COVID-19Pandemic:AnInternationalOverview. . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
FaramarzAsanjarani
14 Flow,DeepLearning,andPreparingEmergingAdultsfor
TimesofCrisis:AnEmpirically-BasedExample
ofGame-BasedLearning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
DavidJ.Shernoff
15 TheRoleofMusicinUndergraduateStudents’Wellbeing
DuringtheCOVID-19Lockdown:AnInvestigation
BasedonMusicalTraining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
SmaragdaChrysostomou,AngelikiTriantafyllaki,Christina
Anagnostopoulou,andIoannaZioga
16 EmpoweringEmergingAdultstoFacethePost-COVID-19
Challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
UlissesAraujo,VivianePinheiro,ValeriaArantes,
andDouglasPereira
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17 CombiningStressMindsetTrainingwithAcceptanceand
CommitmentTherapy(ACT):AnInternet-Delivered
InterventionforEmergingAdultsDuringthePandemic. . . . . . . . . 295
KonstantinosKarampas,ChristosPezirkianidis,andAnastassios
Stalikas
18 ACrisis-AdaptiveApproachtoResilience-Buildingin
Pre-serviceTeachingandLibrarianshipEducation:
LearningAboutandLearningtoBe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
RebeccaB.Reynolds
19 Conclusions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
AntonellaDelleFaveandSophieLeontopoulou
Contributors
Christina Anagnostopoulou Department of Music Studies, National and
KapodistrianUniversityofAthens,Athens,Greece
Valeria Arantes Department EDF—Educational Foundations, University of São
Paulo,SãoPaulo,SP,Brazil
UlissesAraujo SchoolofArts,SciencesandHumanities,UniversityofSãoPaulo,
SãoPaulo,SP,Brazil
Faramarz Asanjarani Department ofCounseling,University ofIsfahan,Isfahan,
Iran
GiuseppinaBernardelli DepartmentofClinicalSciencesandCommunityHealth,
UniversityofMilano,Milan,Italy
Flavia Borgonovo Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Univer-
sityofMilano,Milan,Italy
AthanasiaChalari HellenicObservatory,LSE,London,UK
Chi-Keung Chan School of Arts and Humanities, Tung Wah College, Kowloon,
HongKong,China
Xiaohan Chen Department of Psychology, Taizhou Second People’s Hospital,
Taizhou,China
HinWahChrisCheung ResearchOffice,YewChungCollegeofEarlyChildhood
Education,HongKong,China
Shingairai Chigeza Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria,
SouthAfrica
Michael Chletsos Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus,
Greece
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