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How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being?
The present study aims to investigate longitudinal changes in mental well-being as well as the role of individual differences in personality traits (Big Five) and the level of Personality Organisation during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Overall, 272 adults (M(age)= 36.94,...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9857989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36662727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279753 |
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author | Levacher, Julie Spinath, Frank M. Becker, Nicolas Hahn, Elisabeth |
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description | The present study aims to investigate longitudinal changes in mental well-being as well as the role of individual differences in personality traits (Big Five) and the level of Personality Organisation during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Overall, 272 adults (M(age)= 36.94, SD(age)= 16.46; 68.62% female, 23.45% male, 0.69% non-binary) took part in our study with four weekly surveys during the lockdown as well as a follow-up one month after restrictions were lifted. To analyse the development of mental well-being during and shortly after the first lockdown in Germany latent growth curve models (LGCM) were calculated. The considered facets of well-being differ by their trajectory. Additionally, results suggest that the lockdown did not affect all facets to the same extent. While Life Satisfaction decreases in the short term as a reaction to the lockdown, Stress and Psychological Strain were reduced after the second week of contact restrictions. When adding personality characteristics, our results showed that Neuroticism and Conscientiousness were the two dimensions associated most strongly with SWB during the first month of the pandemic. Thus, our research suggests that personality traits should be considered when analysing mental well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-98579892023-01-21 How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? Levacher, Julie Spinath, Frank M. Becker, Nicolas Hahn, Elisabeth PLoS One Research Article The present study aims to investigate longitudinal changes in mental well-being as well as the role of individual differences in personality traits (Big Five) and the level of Personality Organisation during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Overall, 272 adults (M(age)= 36.94, SD(age)= 16.46; 68.62% female, 23.45% male, 0.69% non-binary) took part in our study with four weekly surveys during the lockdown as well as a follow-up one month after restrictions were lifted. To analyse the development of mental well-being during and shortly after the first lockdown in Germany latent growth curve models (LGCM) were calculated. The considered facets of well-being differ by their trajectory. Additionally, results suggest that the lockdown did not affect all facets to the same extent. While Life Satisfaction decreases in the short term as a reaction to the lockdown, Stress and Psychological Strain were reduced after the second week of contact restrictions. When adding personality characteristics, our results showed that Neuroticism and Conscientiousness were the two dimensions associated most strongly with SWB during the first month of the pandemic. Thus, our research suggests that personality traits should be considered when analysing mental well-being. Public Library of Science 2023-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9857989/ /pubmed/36662727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279753 Text en © 2023 Levacher et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Levacher, Julie Spinath, Frank M. Becker, Nicolas Hahn, Elisabeth How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
title | How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
title_full | How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
title_fullStr | How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
title_full_unstemmed | How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
title_short | How did the beginnings of the global COVID-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
title_sort | how did the beginnings of the global covid-19 pandemic affect mental well-being? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9857989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36662727 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279753 |
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