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Predicting Individual Function During COVID-19 Lockdown: Depression, Fear of COVID-19, Age, and Employment

This study aims to identify the significance of age and employment to individual function during COVID-19. An online survey included 509 Israeli citizens, ages 18–78, who reported individual function, depression, fears related to COVID-19 and demographic characteristics. Structural Equation Modeling...

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Autores principales: Levy, Inna, Cohen-Louck, Keren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34276504
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682122
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description This study aims to identify the significance of age and employment to individual function during COVID-19. An online survey included 509 Israeli citizens, ages 18–78, who reported individual function, depression, fears related to COVID-19 and demographic characteristics. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis showed a good fit between our model and the data. Age and employment were negatively associated with depression and economic fears related to COVID-19 that, in turn, were negatively associated with individual function. The effect of age and employment on individual function was fully mediated via depression and economic fears related to COVID-19. The discussion addresses our findings in the context of the victimization paradox. Although COVID-19 related health complications are more frequent among older adults, our results suggest that practitioners responsible for public mental health during viral pandemics should consider young age and unemployment as risk factors for depression and low individual function.
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spelling pubmed-82803452021-07-16 Predicting Individual Function During COVID-19 Lockdown: Depression, Fear of COVID-19, Age, and Employment Levy, Inna Cohen-Louck, Keren Front Psychol Psychology This study aims to identify the significance of age and employment to individual function during COVID-19. An online survey included 509 Israeli citizens, ages 18–78, who reported individual function, depression, fears related to COVID-19 and demographic characteristics. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis showed a good fit between our model and the data. Age and employment were negatively associated with depression and economic fears related to COVID-19 that, in turn, were negatively associated with individual function. The effect of age and employment on individual function was fully mediated via depression and economic fears related to COVID-19. The discussion addresses our findings in the context of the victimization paradox. Although COVID-19 related health complications are more frequent among older adults, our results suggest that practitioners responsible for public mental health during viral pandemics should consider young age and unemployment as risk factors for depression and low individual function. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8280345/ /pubmed/34276504 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682122 Text en Copyright © 2021 Levy and Cohen-Louck. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Predicting Individual Function During COVID-19 Lockdown: Depression, Fear of COVID-19, Age, and Employment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8280345/
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