One year on: What we have learned about the psychological effects of COVID-19 social restrictions: A meta-analysis

Knox, Laura; Karantzas, Gery C.; Romano, Daniel; Feeney, Judith A.; Simpson, Jeffry A.

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101315

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“…https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-02028-2 cross-country comparisons, the extent of social restrictions showed a dose-response relationship with mental health problems 24,25 . In a review of 33 studies worldwide, it was concluded that governments that enacted stringent measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 benefitted not only the physical but also the mental health of their population during the pandemic 26 , even though more stringent policies may lead to more short-term mental distress 25 .…”

Section: Lonelinessmentioning

confidence: 98%

How COVID-19 shaped mental health: from infection to pandemic effects

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Benros

Mann³

et al. 2022

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Section: Lonelinessmentioning

confidence: 98%

How COVID-19 shaped mental health: from infection to pandemic effects

Penninx

Benros

Mann³

et al. 2022

Nat Med

252

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“…Shortly thereafter, within the United States, individual states issued restrictions, such as stay at home orders, which shut down in-person services including public schools, restaurants, and recreation facilities and spaces. Preliminary research on the impact of COVID-19 related restrictions on people indicates they were associated with negative social and psychological outcomes such as loneliness, stress, and depression [ 2 , 3 , 4 ].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Difficulties with Emotion Regulation during COVID-19 and Associations with Boredom in College Students

Weybright

Doering

Perone

2022

Behavioral Sciences

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COVID-19 related restrictions resulted in a significant lifestyle change for many young adults in the United States. Although boredom and emotional self-regulation are clearly connected in empirical research, the question remains of what this association looks like in unique circumstances, such as early in COVID-19 pandemic at the height of restrictions. The purpose of the current study is to identify the association between boredom proneness and emotion regulation in college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. College students who completed a Boredom Coping Survey between October and December 2019 (n = 481) were recruited for a follow-up COVID-19 Boredom Survey in April 2020. Data from this sub-sample (n = 58) were used in a hierarchical regression predicting the role of boredom proneness on COVID-19 pandemic emotion regulation difficulties while controlling for age, sex, and COVID-19 related lifestyle changes. Findings indicated higher levels of emotion regulation difficulties were associated with higher levels of boredom proneness above and beyond demographic variables and COVID-19 lifestyle changes. Results are in line with prior theory and research on the importance of the environment or situational factors to the experience of boredom.

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“…The United Kingdom and Japan each recently appointed a Minister for Loneliness ( Basu, 2021 ). Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic rendered the consequences of loneliness highly visible, including associations with greater occurrence of anxiety, depression, and elevated substance use ( Meade, 2021 ; Knox et al, 2022 ). These links were especially marked among younger individuals ( Varma et al, 2021 ), including university students ( Bu et al, 2020 ) who are increasingly being recognized as a group at risk ( Diehl et al, 2018 ; Hysing et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early life adverse experiences and loneliness among young adults: The mediating role of social processes

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Loneliness has been described as endemic among young people. Such feelings of social isolation ‘even in a crowd’ are likely linked to adverse early life experiences that serve to diminish perceptions of social support and intensify negative social interactions. It was suggested in the present series of survey studies that childhood abuse, which compromises a child’s sense of safety in relationships, may affect social processes that contribute to loneliness in young adulthood. Study 1 assessed different adverse childhood and adult experiences in relation to loneliness among young adults (N = 171). Linear regression analyses indicated that childhood abuse was uniquely associated with greater loneliness, and this relationship was partially mediated by the perceived availability of social support. Study 2 (N = 289) assessed different forms of childhood abuse and demonstrated that early life emotional abuse was a unique predictor of loneliness, and this relationship was fully mediated by lower perceived support or value in social connections (social connectedness) and more frequent unsupportive interactions with friends. Study 3 evaluated the implications of the age of occurrence of abuse (N = 566). Both emotional and sexual abuse predicted young adult loneliness regardless of age; abuse that was recalled to have occurred at very early ages (0–5 years) was not predictive of loneliness over and above consideration of events that happened in older childhood. These relationships were at least partially mediated by perceived social support, social connectedness, and in the case of emotional abuse, unsupportive interactions with friends. Our results add to mounting evidence pointing to the prevalence of loneliness among young adults and the links to adverse early life experiences that may serve to shape appraisals of safety, value, and personal worth in social relationships.

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One year on: What we have learned about the psychological effects of COVID-19 social restrictions: A meta-analysis

Cited by 46 publications

References 59 publications

How COVID-19 shaped mental health: from infection to pandemic effects

How COVID-19 shaped mental health: from infection to pandemic effects

Difficulties with Emotion Regulation during COVID-19 and Associations with Boredom in College Students

Early life adverse experiences and loneliness among young adults: The mediating role of social processes

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