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Group Membership and Social and Personal Identities as Psychosocial Coping Resources to Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Confinement

Publicated to:International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health. 17 (20): 1-21 - 2020-10-01 17(20), DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17207413

Authors: Alcover, Carlos-Maria; Rodriguez, Fernando; Pastor, Yolanda; Thomas, Helena; Rey, Mayelin; del Barrio, Jose Luis

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Hosp Univ Ramon & Cajal, Ctr Salud Mental Ciudad Lineal, Madrid 28017, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Med Specialties & Publ Hlth, Madrid 28922, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Psychol, Madrid 28922, Spain - Author

Abstract

The confinement imposed by measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic may in the short and medium term have psychological and psychosocial consequences affecting the well-being and mental health of individuals. This study aims to explore the role played by group membership and social and personal identities as coping resources to face the experience of the COVID-19 confinement and radical disruption of social, work, family and personal life in a sample of 421 people who have experienced a month of strict confinement in the Region of Madrid. Our results show that identity-resources (membership continuity/new group memberships, and personal identity strength) are positively related to process-resources (social support and perceived personal control), and that both are related to better perceived mental health, lower levels of anxiety and depression, and higher well-being (life satisfaction and resilience) during confinement. These results, in addition to providing relevant information about the psychological consequences of this experience, constitute a solid basis for the design of psychosocial interventions based on group memberships and social identity as coping resources.

Keywords
Adaptation, psychologicalAdultAgedAnxietyArticleBehaviorCoping behaviorCoping strategyCoronavirus disease 2019Coronavirus infectionCoronavirus infectionsCovid-19Covid-19 pandemicDepressionEpidemiologyFemaleGroup membershipHealthHumanHumansLife satisfactionMadrid [spain]MaleMental disorderMental healthMental health and well-beingMiddle agedPandemicPandemicsPersonal experiencePneumonia, viralPsychological resiliencePsychological well-beingPsychologyQuarantineResilienceRespiratory diseaseSarsSatisfactionSocial behaviorSocial identificationSocial identitySocial isolationSocial psychologySocial statusSocial supportSpainStrainStressSupportTorontoViral diseaseVirus pneumoniaYoung adult

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position 42/176, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.1. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 5.65 (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-15, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 19
  • Scopus: 21
  • Europe PMC: 11
  • OpenCitations: 21
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-15:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 150.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 150 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Alcover de la Hera, Carlos María) and Last Author (Barrio Fernández, José Luis del).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Alcover de la Hera, Carlos María.