Who Is the Most Stressed During COVID-19 Isolation? Data From 27 Countries

Kowal, Marta; Coll-Martín, Tao; İkizer, Gözde; Rasmussen, Jesper; Eichel, Kristina; Studzińska, Anna; Koszałkowska, Karolina; Karwowski, Maciej; Najmussaqib, Arooj; Pankowski, Daniel

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“…Our results are consistent with other studies that have collected data over a similar period, but in other countries around the world and on non-student populations. Notably, Kowal et al ( 42 ) observed that being a woman, living in a collectivist culture, being single and living with children were associated with higher levels of stress. Higher stress in women appears to be observed robustly in other work ( 40 ).…”

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The Early Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Stress and Addictive Behaviors in an Alcohol-Consuming Student Population in France

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Background: This study evaluated factors linked with perceived stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown and addictive behaviors prior to and during lockdown in a sample of students who indicated engaging in alcohol consumption behaviors before lockdown.Methods: Cross-sectional study. French students from four universities participated in this study, and 2,760 students reported alcohol use. During the first week of lockdown, students reported their perceived levels of stress regarding COVID-19. Substance use and addictive behaviors were reported before and during lockdown, and media exposure, demographical, living conditions, and environmental stressors were reported during lockdown.Results: Women reported greater levels of stress (95% CI: 1.18 to 1.93, p < 0.001). Highly-stressed students also report less social support (95% CI: −1.04 to −0.39, p < 0.001) and were more likely to worry about the lockdown (95% CI: 0.27 to −0.65, p < 0.001). Alcohol-related problemswere more prevalent among the most stressed students (95% CI: 0.02 to 0.09, p = 0.004) as well as eating problems (95% CI: 0.04 to 0.36, p = 0.016) and problematic internet use (95% CI, 0.06 to 0.14, p < 0.001). Students reporting the highest levels of stress also indicated more compulsive eating during the previous seven days (95% CI, 0.21 to 1.19, p = 0.005).Conclusions: The level of stress was strongly related to four categories of variables: (i) intrinsic characteristics, (ii) addictive behaviors before lockdown, (iii) lockdown-specific conditions, and (iv) addictive behaviors during the lockdown. Several variables linked to COVID-19 were not directly linked with perceived stress, while perceived stress was found to correlate with daily life organization-related uncertainty and anticipated consequences of lockdown. Importantly, social support seems to be a protective factor on high level of stress.

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The Early Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Stress and Addictive Behaviors in an Alcohol-Consuming Student Population in France

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“…At that time, transmission rates of COVID-19 were growing exponentially (Liu et al, 2020). Scholars observed high stress levels among people all around the world (Kowal et al, 2020), and increased psychological distancing to nations most affected by the pandemic (Sorokowski et al, 2020), what, altogether, may indicate an international crisis. For these reasons, our study provides an interesting opportunity to shed some more insight into a well-known phenomenon in political science -the socalled "rally 'round the flag" -an increased support for national leaders in times of a severe crisis (Mueller, 1970).…”

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When in Danger, Turn Right: Does Covid-19 Threat Promote Social Conservatism and Right-Wing Presidential Candidates?

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Drawing upon the Parasite Model of Democratization across two preregistered experiments conducted in the USA and Poland (total N = 1,237), we examined the psychological and political consequences of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. By manipulating saliency of COVID-19, we found that activating thinking about coronavirus may elevate Americans' and Poles' anxiety and indirectly promote their social conservatism all the way to support for more conservative presidential candidates. The pattern obtained was consistent in both countries, and it suggests that the pandemic may result in a shift in political views.

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“…It quite naturally leads to expecting detrimental effects for creativity, given 4 CREATIVE LOCKDOWN that creative people are usually tolerant (Groyecka, 2018) and liberal rather than conservative (Dollinger, 2007) and use a variety of creative thinking strategies (Jankowska et al, 2018). What's more, there is solid evidence that thinking about COVID increases the level of stress (Kowal et al, 2020), a factor negatively related to creative thinking (Duan et al, 2020). A recent study that tested whether activating thinking about coronavirus influences people's insight and analytical problem solving (Karwowski et al, 2020) found a negative effect, yet only among men.…”

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Creative Lockdown? A Daily Diary Study of Creative Activity During Pandemics

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The current COVID-19 pandemic is influencing our lives in an enormous and unprecedented way. Yet while this impact is being intensively studied with regard to a broad range of health, social, and psychological aspects, the effects of COVID-19 for creativity have been overlooked. Here, we explore COVID-19-lockdown’s consequences for creative activity. To this end, we relied on two extensive diary studies. The first, held in March 2019 (pre-pandemic), involved 78 students who reported their emotions and creativity over two weeks (927 observations). The second, conducted in March 2020 (during the pandemic and lockdown), involved 235 students who reported on their emotions, creativity, and the intensity of thinking and talking about COVID-19 over a month (5,904 observations). Multilevel meditations and dynamic structural equation modeling have shown that compared to 2019, during the lockdown, students engaged slightly, yet statistically significantly more in creative activities. Analysis of diaries collected during the pandemic also showed that students who spent more time discussing or searching for information about COVID-19 were not only more engaged in different creative activities but also declared more positive emotions. We propose potential explanations of these unexpected results along with future studies directions.

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Who Is the Most Stressed During COVID-19 Isolation? Data From 27 Countries

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The Early Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Stress and Addictive Behaviors in an Alcohol-Consuming Student Population in France

The Early Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Stress and Addictive Behaviors in an Alcohol-Consuming Student Population in France

When in Danger, Turn Right: Does Covid-19 Threat Promote Social Conservatism and Right-Wing Presidential Candidates?

Creative Lockdown? A Daily Diary Study of Creative Activity During Pandemics

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