Mental health stressors in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic.

Shapiro, Ephraim; Levine, Livia; Kay, Avi

doi:10.1037/tra0000864

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“…Because of prolonged countrywide lockdown orders, many people were worried about purchasing enough food and medication, and many suffered financial losses and experienced distress (Pfefferbaum and North, 2020;Shapiro et al, 2020). The sample was composed of 51% females, aged 18-84 (M = 41.6, SD = 16.38), of whom 85% were born in Israel and the rest in "other" countries.…”

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Creative Adaptability: Conceptual Framework, Measurement, and Outcomes in Times of Crisis

Orkibi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This article presents the framework and explores the measurement, correlates, and outcomes of creative adaptability (CA), proposed here as the cognitive–behavioral-emotional ability to respond creatively and adaptively to stressful situations. Data collection was in April 2020, during the peak of the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Israel. In Study 1, a sample of 310 adults completed the newly developed CA scale, as well as spontaneity, openness to experience, creative self-efficacy, and well-being measurements. The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses corroborated the 9-item CA scale’s theorized underlying construct. The scale’s validity and reliability were also supported. Exploratory analyses suggested that the association between CA and well-being was mediated by creative self-efficacy and that CA may buffer the impact of individuals’ concern about Coronavirus on their well-being. In Study 2, short-term longitudinal data based on a sample of 71 students suggested that CA may predict lower psychological stress over time. Support for the CA scale’s internal consistency reliability was obtained and its test–retest reliability was established. Overall, the results shed light on this new construct as a potential protective factor. Implications for theory, research, and practice are discussed.

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Creative Adaptability: Conceptual Framework, Measurement, and Outcomes in Times of Crisis

Orkibi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…The mental health of general populations during the COVID-19 pandemic has been investigated widely. Since February 2020, data have been published from 32 surveys of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and acute or post-traumatic stress experienced by unselected populations in 13 countries ( Banna et al., 2020 ; Barros et al., 2020 ; Casagrande et al., 2020 ; Dawel et al., 2020 ; Duan et al., 2020 ; Ettman et al., 2020 ; Fisher et al., 2020b ; Fitzpatrick et al., 2020 ; Gao et al., 2020 ; González-Sanguino et al., 2020 ; Gualano et al., 2020 ; Huang and Zhao, 2020a , b; Islam et al., 2020 ; Li and Wang, 2020 ; Liu et al., 2020 ; Moghanibashi-Mansourieh, 2020 ; Naser et al., 2020 ; Ozamiz-Etxebarria et al., 2020 ; Passos et al., 2020 ; Pierce et al., 2020 ; Planchuelo-Gómez et al., 2020 ; Shapiro et al., 2020 ; Shi et al., 2020 ; Smith et al., 2020 ; Twenge and Joiner, 2020 ; Verma and Mishra, 2020 ; Wang et al., 2020 ; Zhang and Ma, 2020 ; Zhao et al., 2020a ; Zhao et al., 2020b ; Zhou et al., 2020 ). The inclusion criteria for most were to be aged at least 18 years and a resident of the country.…”

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“…All survey instruments included study-specific questions to ascertain demographic characteristics and, in some, to assess being affected by or infected with SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 or self-appraised impact of public health restrictions ( Banna et al., 2020 ; Dawel et al., 2020 ; Fisher et al., 2020a ; Huang and Zhao, 2020a ; Passos et al., 2020 ; Wang et al., 2020 ). Several measures of depressive symptoms, including the full nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) either in its original English-language form ( Dawel et al., 2020 ; Ettman et al., 2020 ; Fisher et al., 2020a ; Naser et al., 2020 ), or in a local language adaptation ( Shi et al., 2020 ), or the short two-item PHQ-2 ( González-Sanguino et al., 2020 ; Gualano et al., 2020 ; Passos et al., 2020 ; Shapiro et al., 2020 ; Twenge and Joiner, 2020 ; Zhao et al., 2020b ) were used. Others used the full ( Huang and Zhao, 2020b ) or short-form ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2020 ) Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) ( Li and Wang, 2020 ; Pierce et al., 2020 ), the Beck Depression Inventory ( Smith et al., 2020 ), or the World Health Organization-Five Wellbeing Index ( Dawel et al., 2020 ; Gao et al., 2020 ).…”

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“…There is a signal in the data that population-level mental health worsened after the imposition of restrictions. Studies from Australia ( Fisher et al., 2020a ), Bangladesh ( Banna et al., 2020 ; Islam et al., 2020 ), Brazil ( Barros et al., 2020 ; Passos et al., 2020 ), China ( Gao et al., 2020 ; Zhao et al., 2020a ), India ( Verma and Mishra, 2020 ), Israel ( Shapiro et al., 2020 ), Italy ( Gualano et al., 2020 ), Portugal ( Passos et al., 2020 ), Spain ( Planchuelo-Gómez et al., 2020 ), the UK ( Pierce et al., 2020 ), and the USA ( Ettman et al., 2020 ; Twenge and Joiner, 2020 ; Zhou et al., 2020 ) reported prevalence rates of clinically significant depressive symptoms ranging from 14.8% to 57.9% and generalised anxiety symptoms of 8.8% to 47.2%. Fewer investigated acute stress, reporting prevalence rates of clinically significant symptoms ranging from 8.1% to 37.01% ( Banna et al., 2020 ; Planchuelo-Gómez et al., 2020 ; Shi et al., 2020 ; Verma and Mishra, 2020 ; Wang et al., 2020 ; Zhou et al., 2020 ).…”

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Quantifying the mental health burden of the most severe covid-19 restrictions: A natural experiment

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Journal of Affective Disorders

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic, and the restrictions required to halt spread of the infection, are associated with increased population burden of moderate to severe symptoms of depression and anxiety. The aim was to quantify the mental health burden of the most severe COVID-19 related restrictions. Methods A natural experiment in which differences between Australian states and territories in the severity of restrictions for pandemic control, divided the population. People in Victoria experienced the most severe, and people in all other states and territories less severe or negligible restrictions. Data were collected in national, anonymously completed, online surveys (in April and in July / August 2020) of adults in Australia. Outcomes were, in the previous fortnight, experiencing clinically significant depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire 9 score ≥10); or symptoms of generalised anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder Scale 7 score ≥10). Results In total, 23,749 eligible respondents contributed complete data. There were no differences in the population burden of mental health problems between Victoria and the other states and territories at Survey One. By Survey Two prevalence rates of clinically significant depressive (Adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR) 1.96; 95% CI 1.62; 2.37) and anxiety (aOR 1.87; 95%CI 1.53; 2.29) symptoms were substantially and significantly higher in Victoria than in other states and territories. Limitations Online surveys are less accessible to some groups of people. The data are self-report and not diagnostic. Conclusions The most severe COVID-19 restrictions are associated with near double the population prevalence of moderate to severe depressive and generalised anxiety symptoms.

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“…Moreover, a rise in suicidal tendencies and deaths was associated with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic or lockdown (Buschmann and Tsokos, 2020). The few studies that focused on the Israeli population showed a high prevalence of worry, nervousness and loneliness, and a rise in levels of depression and anxiety during the beginning of COVID-19 Shapiro et al, 2020;Yehudai et al, 2020). These studies highlight loneliness as an important factor affecting the different aspects of current psychological distress, among them stress, financial worries, anxiety and depression levels Palgi et al, 2020;Lipskaya-Velikovsky, 2021).…”

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Identifying Variables That Predict Depression Following the General Lockdown During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

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This study aimed to define the psychological markers for future development of depression symptoms following the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on previous studies, we focused on loneliness, intolerance of uncertainty and emotion estimation biases as potential predictors of elevated depression levels. During the general lockdown in April 2020, 551 participants reported their psychological health by means of various online questionnaires and an implicit task. Out of these participants, 129 took part in a second phase in June 2020. Subjective loneliness during the lockdown rather than objective isolation was the strongest predictor of symptoms of depression 5 weeks later. Younger age and health related worry also predicted higher non-clinical levels of depression and emotional distress. The results support the diathesis-stress model, which posits that a combination of preexisting vulnerabilities along with stressors such as negative life events are among the factors affecting the development of psychopathology. Moreover, our results correspond with those of previous studies conducted worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taken together, these findings call for focusing on psychological factors, especially among younger people, to identify individuals at risk for future development of depression and to promote new strategies for prevention.

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Mental health stressors in Israel during the coronavirus pandemic.

Cited by 38 publications

References 4 publications

Creative Adaptability: Conceptual Framework, Measurement, and Outcomes in Times of Crisis

Creative Adaptability: Conceptual Framework, Measurement, and Outcomes in Times of Crisis

Quantifying the mental health burden of the most severe covid-19 restrictions: A natural experiment

Identifying Variables That Predict Depression Following the General Lockdown During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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