During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new survey to address the dynamic landscape of the pandemic. This survey was released with the goal of addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion by working with over 150 researchers across the globe who collected data in 48 languages and dialects across 137 countries. The resulting cleaned dataset described here includes 15,740 of over 20,000 responses. The dataset allows cross-cultural study of psychological wellbeing and behaviours a year into the pandemic. It includes measures of stress, resilience, vaccine attitudes, trust in government and scientists, compliance, and information acquisition and misperceptions regarding COVID-19. Open-access raw and cleaned datasets with computed scores are available. Just as our initial COVIDiSTRESS dataset has facilitated government policy decisions regarding health crises, this dataset can be used by researchers and policy makers to inform research, decisions, and policy.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the mental state of teachers and students, who faced the necessity to teach and study online because of lockdown. The current study aimed to establish the association between attitudes toward the pandemic and the degree of stress, anxiety and depression among teachers and students. A total of 8051 participants constituted the sample. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was used to assess depression and anxiety, and the PSS was used to assess stress. Principal component analysis was implemented to derive latent variables reflecting various attitudes toward the pandemic, and multinomial logistic models were implemented to establish the association between attitudes toward the pandemic and the degree of anxiety, stress and depression. The majority of participants, regardless of their social group, reported low levels of anxiety and depression and medium levels of stress. Overall, worry about COVID-19 itself is negatively associated with anxiety, stress and depression, whereas worry about the side effects of the pandemic has a positive association with those constructs. Additionally, social group moderates the relationship: specifically for teachers, the association between worry about COVID-19 and anxiety and depression tended to be positive. The theoretical explanation and practical implication of the findings are discussed.