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Elena-Diana Dodiță1, Alina Macovei1, Loredana R Diaconu-Gherasim2
1Department of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, Romania.
Abstract:
The uncertainty that surrounded the COVID-19 pandemic played a key role in the mental health experienced by people during that period. The present study examined the relation between future time perspective and mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether intolerance of uncertainty may play a mediating role in this relation. A sample of 349 university students (Mage = 23.57, 87.4% females) completed scales assessing future time perspective, intolerance of uncertainty, positive mental health and psychological distress. The path analysis indicated that future time perspective was negatively related to both psychological distress and intolerance of uncertainty. The negative implications were significantly linked with both positive mental health and psychological distress. Further, the negative implications mediated the relation between future time perspectives and both indicators of mental health. These results underlined intolerance of uncertainty as a potential mechanism that might explain the impact of future time perspective on mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results are discussed in terms of practical implications regarding future time perspective and intolerance of uncertainty on young people's mental health.
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