With age comes well-being: older age associated with lower stress, negative affect, and depression throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: Despite initial concerns about older adult's emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports from the first months of the pandemic suggested that older adults were faring better than younger adults, reporting lower stress, negative affect, depression, and anxiety. In this study, we examined whether this pattern would persist as the pandemic progressed.Method: A convenience sample of 1,171 community-dwelling adults in the United States, ages 18-90, filled out surveys on various metrics of emotional well-being starting in March 2020 and at various time points through April 2021. We created time bins to account for the occurrence of significant national events, allowing us to determine how age would relate to affective outcomes when additional national-lev

SUBMITTER: Fields EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200900 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature