Personality, gender, and age resilience to the mental health effects of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on different population cohorts and which personality traits affected individual's coping responses can help identify strategies to promote self-directed behaviours, thereby enhancing and maintaining individual's mental well-being.

Objective

Using longitudinal data for the UK, we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals' mental well-being, focusing on age, gender, and personality traits as possible modifiers.

Methods

We explore the longitudinal nature of the data using individual fixed effects models, which implicitly control for unobserved time-invariant individual-level characteristics. Our sample is an unbalanced panel consisting of 373,555 person-years observations, observed from 2009 until June 2020

SUBMITTER: Staneva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8915456 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature