Stress-related psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic

McLaughlin, Katie A.; Rosen, Maya L.; Kasparek, Steven William; Rodman, Alexandra M.

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2022.104121

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“…The association between prenatal pandemic-related stress and concurrent depressive symptoms may indeed be reciprocal. As reviewed by McLaughlin et al (2022), people with higher levels of psychopathology symptoms, including depressive symptoms, are less likely to engage in cognitive reappraisal of stressful events or use other beneficial coping strategies. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals' inability to cope successfully with stressors may exacerbate their depressive symptoms, which, in turn, may heighten their subjective stress experience of the pandemic.…”

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Maternal–prenatal stress and depression predict infant temperament during the COVID-19 pandemic

2022

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Researchers have begun to examine the psychological toll of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. Data are now emerging indicating that there may be long-term adverse effects of the pandemic on new mothers and on children born during this period. In a longitudinal study of maternal mental health and child emotional development during the pandemic, we conducted online assessments of a cohort of women at two time points: when they were pregnant at the beginning of the surge of the pandemic in the United States (baseline, N = 725), and approximately 1 year postpartum (follow-up, N = 296), examining prenatal and postnatal maternal mental health, prenatal pandemic-related stress, and infant temperament. Pandemic-related stress at baseline was associated with concurrent depressive symptoms and infant negative affect at follow-up. Baseline maternal depressive symptoms were associated with follow-up depressive symptoms, which in turn were also associated with infant negative affect. Pandemic-related stress during pregnancy may have enduring effects on infant temperament. These findings have important implications for our understanding of the emotional development of children who were in utero during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Maternal–prenatal stress and depression predict infant temperament during the COVID-19 pandemic

2022

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“…for increased levels of mental illness during times of pandemic-related stress [47]. In this case, ongoing, lifetime longitudinal studies are specially equipped to assess the relationship between diatheses related to earlier experiences and later distress [16].…”

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“…However, many risk factors for elevated mental illness occurred prior to the original baseline measures included in the study. Elevated levels of psychopathology prior to assessment [16] or adverse childhood events [47] are both useful for identifying those at risk for greater levels of distress while facing pandemic-related stressors. Future studies using similar designs may use retrospective assessments to capture some of these risk factors as well.…”

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“…Social stressors both from the participant's past (e.g., and during their experiences in quarantine (e.g., domestic violence) [51] are themselves likely risk factors for loneliness, and mood disorder [52]. Future studies may further examine the role of interpersonal factors in well-being at the onset of the pandemic [47]. Furthermore, the current research design focuses on the acute periods of stress that accompanied the beginning of the pandemic.…”

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“…However, as the pandemic continued, stress has accumulated. Future studies may assess the association between cumulative stress and mental illness [47]. Additionally, the current study operationalized mental health in terms of metrics of distress, loneliness, depression, and anxiety.…”

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Mood symptoms predict COVID-19 pandemic distress but not vice versa: An 18-month longitudinal study

Katz

Yovel

2022

PLoS ONE

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had medical, economic and behavioral implications on a global scale, with research emerging to indicate that it negatively impacted the population’s mental health as well. The current study utilizes longitudinal data to assess whether the pandemic led to an increase in depression and anxiety across participants or whether a diathesis-stress model would be more appropriate. An international group of 218 participants completed measures of depression, anxiety, rumination and distress intolerance at two baselines six months apart as well as during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic exactly 12 months later. Contrary to expectations, depression, rumination, and distress intolerance were at equivalent levels during the pandemic as they were at baseline. Anxiety was reduced by a trivial degree (d = .10). Furthermore, a comparison of quantitative explanatory models indicated that symptom severity and pandemic-related environmental stressors predicted pandemic-related distress. Pandemic-related distress did not predict symptom severity. These findings underscore the necessity of longitudinal designs and diathesis-stress models in the study of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. They also emphasize that individuals with higher rates of baseline psychopathology are as particularly at risk for higher levels of distress in response to disaster-related stressors.

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Early executive control buffers risk for adolescent psychopathology during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Laifer

Tomaso

Chang

et al. 2023

Journal of Adolescence

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Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has had a global impact on youth mental health, and there is a critical need for research examining individual factors that contribute to increased psychopathology during the pandemic. The current study explored whether executive control (EC) abilities in early childhood interact with COVID‐related stress to attenuate risk for adolescent psychopathology during the first 6 months of the pandemic. Methods Participants were 337 youth (49% female) living in a small midwestern city in the United States. Participants completed EC tasks when they were approximately 4.5 years old as part of a longitudinal study investigating cognitive development. At annual laboratory visits during adolescence and before the pandemic, participants (Mage = 14.57) reported on mental health symptoms. In July and August of 2020, participants (Mage = 16.57) reported on COVID‐related stress and depression, anxiety, and trauma symptoms. Results COVID‐related stress was associated with increased internalizing problems after controlling for prepandemic symptom levels. Further, the impact of COVID‐related stress on adolescent internalizing problems was moderated by preschool EC, with higher levels of EC buffering the effects of COVID‐related stress on adolescent internalizing problems. Conclusions Findings highlight the importance of promoting EC early in development, as well as screening for EC deficits and implementing targeted intervention strategies across the lifespan to help reduce the impact of stress on adolescent internalizing problems.

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Stress-related psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 20 publications

References 198 publications

Maternal–prenatal stress and depression predict infant temperament during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maternal–prenatal stress and depression predict infant temperament during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mood symptoms predict COVID-19 pandemic distress but not vice versa: An 18-month longitudinal study

Early executive control buffers risk for adolescent psychopathology during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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