We address a key unresolved issue in the social support literature—how social support relates to psychological health—by examining behavioural adaptation as a mechanism through which support from work and family domains, during the COVID-19 pandemic, impacts psychological health. Given support may not equally benefit all, we consider individual differences in demographics as moderators in the relationships between support, adaptation and health outcomes. We examine both within-domain and cross-domain effects of support on adaptation using a sample of 392 employees who responded to two surveys, 3 weeks apart, shortly after the COVID-19 lockdown. Consistent with expectations, adaptation both within and across domains mediated the relationships between social support and psychological health. Moreover, the family support–family adaptation and family adaptation–psychological health relationships were stronger among participants without a cohabiting partner. Our findings highlight the important role social support and adaptation play in maintaining well-being during crisis events, particularly for persons without cohabiting partners. Our results suggest that workers can protect their psychological health during a crisis event to the extent they engage in behavioural adaptation and, thus, organizations should consider adopting interventions that promote behavioural adaptation, such as micro-interventions focused on stress reappraisal.

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工作和家庭角色的适应将大流行期间的支持与心理健康联系起来

我们解决了社会支持文献中一个未解决的关键问题——社会支持如何与心理健康相关——通过研究行为适应作为一种机制，在COVID-19大流行期间，工作和家庭领域的支持影响心理健康。鉴于支持可能不会平等地惠及所有人，我们将人口统计中的个体差异视为支持、适应和健康结果之间关系的调节因素。我们使用 392 名员工作为样本，研究了支持对适应的域内和跨域影响，这些员工在 COVID-19 封锁后不久对两项相隔 3 周的调查做出了回应。与预期一致，领域内和跨领域的适应调节了社会支持和心理健康之间的关系。此外，没有同居伴侣的参与者的家庭支持-家庭适应和家庭适应-心理健康关系更强。我们的研究结果强调了社会支持和适应在危机事件期间维持福祉的重要作用，特别是对于没有同居伴侣的人来说。我们的研究结果表明，员工可以在危机事件期间通过行为适应来保护自己的心理健康，因此，组织应考虑采取促进行为适应的干预措施，例如侧重于压力重新评估的微观干预措施。