Association between psychological resilience and changes in mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychological responses to potentially traumatic events tend to be heterogeneous, with some individuals displaying resilience. Longitudinal associations between resilience and mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, however, are poorly understood. The objective of this study was to examine the association between resilience and trajectories of mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Participants were 6,008 adults from the Understanding America Study, a probability-based Internet-panel representative of the US adult population. Baseline data were collected between March 10 and March 31, 2020, with nine follow-up waves conducted between April 1 and August 4. Mixed-effects logistic regression was used to examine the association between date and me

SUBMITTER: Riehm KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7889692 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature