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Basic Psychosomatics Coping with a crisis

coping and resilience scores (r = 0.29, P ≤ 0.01), indicating with measures of anxiety (r = −0.39, P ≤ 0.01), depression
the use of spiritual coping was associated with higher (r = −0.26, P ≤ 0.01), and stress (r = −0.27, P ≤ 0.01). The
resilience. No significant correlations were found between relationships among age and the social media variables
spiritual coping and total social media friends. Regarding indicated lower use of social media as age increased for
resilience, results showed a stronger pattern of moderate social media intensity (r = −0.27, P ≤ 0.01), total social
negative correlations with the anxiety (r = −0.51, P ≤ 0.01), media hours (r = −0.46, P ≤ 0.01), and total social media
depression (r = −0.49, P ≤ 0.05), stress (r = −0.49, P ≤ 0.01) friends (r = −0.21, P ≤ 0.01).
scores, weaker negative correlations with social media
intensity scores (r = −0.19, P ≤ 0.01), and social media hours When examining only the scores of faculty and
(r = −0.28, P ≤ 0.01). There was no correlation between staff (Table 3), several overall correlations lost their
resilience and total social media friends. The mental health significance. In this specific group, spiritual coping was
variables presented a pattern of positive correlations with negatively correlated with both depression (r = −0.31,
the social media intensity (anxiety, r = 0.19, P ≤ 0.01; P < 0.05) and stress scores (r = −0.24, P < 0.05). In addition,
depression, r = 0.13, P ≤ 0.01; and stress, r = 0.16, P ≤ 0.01) resilience scores showed a weak positive correlation with
and a stronger relationship with social media hours spiritual coping (r = 0.24, P < 0.05). The Brief Resilience
variables (anxiety, r = 0.41, P ≤ 0.01; depression, r = 0.26, scores displayed a similar pattern, maintaining negative
P ≤ 0.01; and stress, r = 0.31, P ≤ 0.01). Social media friends correlations with all three DASS-21 scales: anxiety
only demonstrated a relationship to anxiety (r = 0.17, (r = −0.51, P < 0.01), depression (r = −0.52, P < 0.01), and
P ≤ 0.05). Age demonstrated a positive relationship with stress (r = −0.46, P < 0.01). In this subset of the sample,
resilience (r = 0.20, P ≤ 0.01), and negative relationships none of the social media variables were correlated with

Table 2. Correlations among spiritual coping, brief resilience, social media intensity, and DASS‑21 scales for all respondents
(n=285)
Measure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Spiritual Coping ---
2. Brief Resilience 0.29** ---
3. Social Media Intensity −0.13* −0.19** ---
4. DASS-21 Anxiety −0.12* −0.50** 0.19** ---
5. DASS-21 Depression −0.28** −0.49** 0.13* 0.66** ---
6. DASS-12 Stress −0.18** −0.49** 0.16** 0.71** 0.70** ---
7. Social media hours −0.16* −0.28** 0.54** 0.41** 0.26** 0.31* ---
8. Social media friends a 0.08 0.07 0.28** 0.17* 0.04 0.04 0.22** ---
9. Age (years) 0.03 0.20** −0.27** −0.39** −0.26** −0.27** −0.46** −0.21** ---
Note: Logarithmic transformed variable; *P≤0.05, **P≤0.01.
a
Abbreviation: DASS-21: Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales.

Table 3. Correlations among spiritual coping, brief resilience, social media intensity, and DASS‑21 scales for faculty/staff
respondents only (n=93)
Measure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1. Spiritual Coping ---
2. Brief Resilience 0.24* ---
3. Social Media Intensity −0.11 −0.19 ---
4. DASS-21 Anxiety −0.08 −0.51** 0.21* ---
5. DASS-21 Depression −0.31* −0.52** 0.18 0.59** ---
6. DASS-12 Stress −0.24* −0.46** 0.21* 0.61** 0.68** ---
7. Social media hours −0.16 −0.04 0.60** 0.04 0.06 0.00 ---
8. Social media friends a 0.18 0.06 0.33** 0.27* 0.10 0.16 0.23 ---
Note: Logarithmic transformed variable; *P≤0.05, **P≤0.01.
a
Abbreviation: DASS-21: Depression, anxiety, and stress scales.

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