Mental Health Inequalities During COVID-19 Outbreak: The Role of Financial Insecurity and Attentional Control.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns negatively impacted the mental health of populations. This impact is not equally distributed and increases existing mental health inequalities. Indeed, government restrictions and the economic consequences of the pandemic affect more the less educated and less wealthy people. However, psychological processes implicated in this increase of mental health inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic remain unexplored. The present study (N=591) tested the role of financial insecurity and attentional control in the relation between socioeconomic status and mental health, along with the influence of trait anxiety. Based on Structural Equation Modelling, findings showed a mediation effect of financial insecurity, but not of attentional control, in the r

SUBMITTER: Claes N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8588930 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature