Codifying a Model of Psychological Coping with Covid19 Consequences Based on Positivist Psychology and Evaluating Its Effect on Quality of Life and Happiness of the People with Covid19 Anxiety

The present study was conducted to codify a model of psychological coping with Covid-19 consequences based on positivist psychology and evaluate its effect on quality of life and happiness of the people with Covid-19 anxiety. The research method was theme analysis through inductive method in the qualitative part and quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and two-month follow-up period design in the quantitative part. The statistical population of the present study included the people with Covid-19 anxiety in Tehran in the spring and summer of 2021. 35 people with Covid-19 anxiety were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups. The people in the experimental group received the related interventions (10 sessions) during one-and-a-half months. The applied questionnaires in this study included Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (Alipour, et.al, 2019) (CDAS) and quality of life questionnaire (World Health Organization, 1994) (QLQ) and happiness questionnaire (Arghil, Martin, Craslande, 1989). The results showed that the model of psychological coping with Covid-19 consequences based on positivist psychology enjoys enough content validity. Moreover, this intervention has been effective on the quality of life and happiness of the people with Covid-19 anxiety (P<0001). According to the present study, the model of psychological coping based on positive psychology can be attended to as an efficient method to improve the quality of life and happiness of the people with Covid-19 anxiety through paying attention to the capabilities and positive points, promoting altruism and devotion, being thankful and grateful and forming hope and optimism.