Decreasing Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study Among Danes Before and During the Pandemic

Thygesen, Lau Caspar; Møller, Sanne Pagh; Ersbøll, Annette Kjær; Santini, Ziggi Ivan; Nielsen, Maj Britt Dahl; Grønbæk, Morten; Ekholm, Ola

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3845383

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“…In addition, in line with the insights advanced in this study, empirical research has also shown that some people with an experience of mental illness have not suffered a worsening of their condition during Covid-19, and rather have perceived some improvements (see e.g. Thygesen et al, 2021).…”

Section: The Possibility Of Healing Online and Its Ethical Dimensionsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…e.g. Jarral, 2020;Khazan, 2021;Thygesen et al, 2021), and some of these improvements appear to be connected to the possibility of interacting remotely rather than in person. This corresponds to my own personal experience as an anxiety sufferer, and is one of the reasons I became interested in the investigation of this topic.…”

Section: Covid-19 and Phenomenology: The Role Of Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Healing online? Social anxiety and emotion regulation in pandemic experience

Bortolan

2023

Phenom Cogn Sci

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During the pandemic of Covid-19, internet-based communication became for many the primary, or only, means of interaction with others, and it has been argued that this had a host of negative effects on emotional and mental health. However, some people with a lived experience of mental ill-health also perceived improvements to their wellbeing during the period in which social activities were moved online.In this paper, I explore the possibility that some of these improvements are due to the partial “disembodiment” of emotions facilitated by internet-mediated interaction. In particular, I consider the phenomenology of social anxiety and how it may be impacted upon by encountering others primarily through the medium of internet-enabled technology.I will start by reconstructing a phenomenological account of social anxiety to which disruptions of bodily experience are central. I will then move to consider how the experiential dynamics that are particularly prominent in social anxiety can be weakened when communicating with others via video calls, instant messages, and social media more broadly. I will suggest that this is the case due to the diminished visibility of the body online, and the higher degree of control and agency over one’s experience that can be exercised in this context.Finally, I will argue that the weakening of social anxiety through internet-mediated contact exemplifies some of the processes which are key to emotion regulation more widely, thus suggesting that communication and interaction online could have a positive effect on a wider range of affective disturbances.

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Section: The Possibility Of Healing Online and Its Ethical Dimensionsupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Covid-19 and Phenomenology: The Role Of Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Healing online? Social anxiety and emotion regulation in pandemic experience

Bortolan

2023

Phenom Cogn Sci

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“…Despite all this, it is interesting to point out that, in certain people, the effect of pandemic on mental health has not been negative or has even been positive. This was observed in a Danish trial with previous depression [12] as well as in a cohort of young adults (22 years old) in Quebec, in which no change in depression and anxiety levels was reported [13].…”

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confidence: 76%

Trends in the incidence of hospital-treated suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oviedo, Spain

Fernandez-Fernandez¹,

Jiménez-Treviño²,

Seijo-Zazo³

et al. 2023

Eur. Psychiatr.

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“…For college-age students, this life stage goal has been radically altered and challenged by reduced opportunities to engage in face-to-face interactions with their peer groups (Myers, 2020). The reduced sense of connectedness, in turn, affects their well-being (Thygesen et al, 2021). One study found that the younger age groups were more affected than the older age groups (Santomauro et al, 2021).…”

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“…Self-reports through written interviews reflect self-desirability bias. Its accuracy is also shaped by recall bias, or the participants' ability to precisely remember and recount their feelings related to past experiences (Thygesen et al, 2021). The restrictions of human memory and concerns about self-representation render this kind of data open to questions of reliability.…”

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COVID-19 and the Mental Health Crisis Faced by Students From a Private University in the Philippines: A Phenomenological Study

Asiones

2023

The Family Journal

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The focus of this study was the students lived experiences and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns. Although there is considerable quantitative evidence that the pandemic significantly strained the general population's mental health, qualitative attempts to explore the psychosocial determinants that could have moderated and mitigated its adverse effects are limited. Based on empirical phenomenological methods of inquiry, this study aimed to provide a more eidetic portrait of the lived experience of the pandemic-induced environment from the perspective of 36 first-year college students from a private university in the Philippines. A thematic analysis of their responses to the online structured written interview surfaced three strands that enabled them to cope, adapt, and even thrive: finding the family, finding faith, and finding meaning. The researchers recommend that youth ministers, positive psychology practitioners, and school guidance counselors enact and implement programs that can strengthen the supportive role of family and religion to enable the youth to respond well to the current pandemic and beyond.

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Decreasing Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study Among Danes Before and During the Pandemic

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Healing online? Social anxiety and emotion regulation in pandemic experience

Healing online? Social anxiety and emotion regulation in pandemic experience

Trends in the incidence of hospital-treated suicide attempts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oviedo, Spain

COVID-19 and the Mental Health Crisis Faced by Students From a Private University in the Philippines: A Phenomenological Study

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