The finding that the average perceived change in PRL was negative in the latter group, but not in the former, suggests that perceiving life as psychologically rich could be a way of coping with the infection, similar to meaning-centered coping (e.g., Polizzi et al., 2020; Karataş et al. 2021; Lin, 2021; Eisenbeck et al., 2022) and psychological flexibility (e.g., Arslan et al., 2020; Arslan and Allen, 2021). This evidence concerns the gene PRL and infection.