The Japanese version of the COVID Stress Scale

Muta, Toshizumi; sato, hideki; Takashina, Hikari; Akiyama, Naomi; Takebayashi, Yoshitake; Yokomitsu, Kengo

doi:10.31219/osf.io/6apd8

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“…The Japanese version of the COVID Stress Scale (Muta et al, 2020) was used to measure COVID-19-related distress. Participants completed this scale, reporting their level of COVID-19-related distress in the last 7 days.…”

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Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in a young population: The mediating role of resilience

Iimura

2022

Personality and Individual Differences

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Psychologists worldwide are becoming increasingly concerned about the negative impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on adolescents' mental health. However, compared to studies involving adults, research using a young population is limited. To further understand the mental health of older adolescents and young adults during the pandemic, the present study examined whether resilience, as a protective factor, buffers the relationship between the personality trait of environmental sensitivity and COVID-19-related distress. In total, 441 older adolescents and young adults (53.7% women, Mage = 18.91 years, SDage = 0.82 years) living in urban Japan completed an online cross-sectional survey in October 2020. The results showed that sensitivity was positively, though weakly, correlated with COVID-19 stress and negatively correlated with resilience. Resilience was negatively correlated with COVID-19 stress. Mediation analysis showed that resilience buffered the negative relationship between sensitivity and COVID-19 stress, and its indirect effect was statistically significant, albeit close to zero. These results suggest that higher sensitivity is not necessarily a vulnerability factor, if resilience can be enhanced.

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confidence: 99%