Age disparities in mental health during the COVID19 pandemic: The roles of resilience and coping.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID19 pandemic has caused a mental health crisis worldwide, which may have different age-specific impacts, partly due to age-related differences in resilience and coping. The purposes of this study were to 1) identify disparities in mental distress, perceived adversities, resilience, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic among four age groups (18-34, 35-49, 50-64, and ≥65); 2) assess the age-moderated time effect on mental distress, and 3) estimate the effects of perceived adversities on mental distress as moderated by age, resilience and coping.

Methods

Data were drawn from a longitudinal survey of a nationally representative sample (n = 7830) administered during the pandemic. Weighted mean of mental distress and adversities (perceived loneliness, perceiv

SUBMITTER: Na L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9100296 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature