Are Attitudes towards COVID-19 Pandemic Related to Subjective Physical and Mental Health?

ABSTRACT: In this paper, we investigate the relationship between a person's psychological distress, subjective physical health and their attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation was performed on the basis of data from two waves of the Saxon Longitudinal Study, carried out in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2021. The number of study participants in both waves was 291. We tested in autoregressive cross-lagged models the stability of the respondents' health status before and during the pandemic and reviewed their influence on attitudes towards COVID-19. Our results show that COVID-19-related concerns are controlled by subjective physical health, while pandemic denial is linked to psychological distress. In an unknown and critical situation, with limited control over the situation, the strategy o

SUBMITTER: Khachatryan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9656892 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature