| Title |
Evidence on resilient initial response to COVID-19 pandemic among youth: findings from the prospective study of mental health in two European countries / |
| Authors |
Truskauskaitė-Kunevičienė, Inga ; Brailovskaia, Julia ; Margraf, Jürgen ; Kazlauskas, Evaldas |
| DOI |
10.1177/21676968211031120 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Emerging adulthood.. Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications. 2021, vol. 9, iss. 5, p. 566-575.. ISSN 2167-6968. eISSN 2167-6984 |
| Keywords [eng] |
anxiety ; COVID-19 ; depression ; mental health ; stress ; young adults |
| Abstract [eng] |
The current two-wave longitudinal study aimed to investigate changes in stress, anxiety, depression, and positive mental health (PMH) during the first COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in the sample of emerging adults. Data were collected before the COVID-19 and within the first month of the outbreak. The study sample consisted of 775 university students from Lithuania ( n = 450, M age ( SD age ) = 19.45 (0.93), 79.3% female) and Germany ( n = 325, M age ( SD age ) = 23.08 (2.94), 78.2% female). The results of multivariate Latent Change Analysis revealed that Lithuanian and German emerging adults demonstrated a decrease in stress and anxiety at the COVID-19 outbreak. Lithuanians also showed a decrease in depressive symptoms and an increase in PMH. Three groups with different change patterns were identified: resilient (82%) demonstrating positive changes, high-symptom (8%) with stable high rates of stress and depression and stable low rates of PMH, and vulnerable (10%) with an increase in depressive symptoms as well as a decrease in PMH over time. |
| Published |
Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2021 |
| CC license |
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