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Longitudinal assessment of COVID-19 fear and psychological wellbeing in the United Kingdom
Journal of Health Psychology, Volume: 28, Issue: 8, Pages: 726 - 738
Swansea University Authors:
Martyn Quigley , Sebastian Whiteford
, Gemma Cuddihy, Daniel Zuj, Simon Dymond
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/13591053221134848
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact global psychological wellbeing. To investigate the sustained impact of COVID-19 on wellbeing, the current study longitudinally assessed fear of COVID-19, anxiety, depression, intolerance of uncertainty, worry, sleep quality, loneliness and alcohol use during...
Published in: | Journal of Health Psychology |
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ISSN: | 1359-1053 1461-7277 |
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SAGE Publications
2023
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URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61671 |
Abstract: |
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact global psychological wellbeing. To investigate the sustained impact of COVID-19 on wellbeing, the current study longitudinally assessed fear of COVID-19, anxiety, depression, intolerance of uncertainty, worry, sleep quality, loneliness and alcohol use during the pandemic in the United Kingdom. Timepoint 1 (T1; N = 445) took place in February 2021 following the highest number of pandemic-related deaths in the UK. Timepoint 2 (T2, N = 198) took place in June 2021 when pandemic-related deaths had declined considerably, and many had been vaccinated. At T1, COVID-19 fear predicted elevated levels of anxiety, depression, intolerance of uncertainty, worry, sleep quality and loneliness. At T2, we observed that levels of COVID-19 fear, depression, loneliness and sleep quality decreased. However, COVID-19 fear continued to predict elevated intolerance of uncertainty, worry and impaired sleep quality. These findings demonstrate the longitudinal impact of COVID-19 fear on psychological wellbeing. |
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Keywords: |
COVID-19; longitudinal; pandemic; United Kingdom; wellbeing |
College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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This work was supported by the Welsh Government Office for Science (Ser Cymru Tackling COVID-19) grant (WG Project Number 95). |
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8 |
Start Page: |
726 |
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738 |