The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of fear of COVID-19 in the relationship between Sence of Community and Mental Health Recovery for local residents. In 2022, 257 local residents living in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, were surveyed on ...
The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of fear of COVID-19 in the relationship between Sence of Community and Mental Health Recovery for local residents. In 2022, 257 local residents living in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, were surveyed on Sense of Community, Mental Health Recovery, and Fear of COVID-19. The collected data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 24, Amos 21, and Process Macro 4.1 to conduct descriptive statistics, internal consistency between items, correlation analysis, regression analysis, and mediating effect analysis. The specific results are as follows. First, there was a statistically significant correlation between Sense of Community, Mental Health Recovery, and Fear of COVID-19. Second, there was a statistically significant causal relationship between Sense of Community and Fear of COVID-19 and Mental Health Recovery, while there was no statistically significant causal relationship between Fear of COVID-19and Mental Health Recovery. Third, it was found that Sense of Community did not have a statistically significant effect on Mental Health Recovery through Fear of COVID-19. The above research results will be used to improve the health of local residents and establish daily recovery policies in the future. The above research results can be used as basic data to establish policies for improving the mental health of local residents and for daily recovery in the event of an outbreak of an infectious disease such as COVID-19 in the future.