Autoren:	Khachatryan, Kristine Beutel, Manfred E. Stöbel-Richter, Yve Zenger, Markus Berth, Hendrik Brähler, Elmar Schmidt, Peter
Titel:	Are attitudes towards COVID-19 pandemic related to subjective physical and mental health?
Online-Publikationsdatum:	25-Jan-2023
Erscheinungsdatum:	2022
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	In this paper, we investigate the relationship between a person’s psychological distress, subjective physical health and their attitudes towards the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation was performed on the basis of data from two waves of the Saxon Longitudinal Study, carried out in 2019 (pre-pandemic) and 2021. The number of study participants in both waves was 291. We tested in autoregressive cross-lagged models the stability of the respondents’ health status before and during the pandemic and reviewed their influence on attitudes towards COVID-19. Our results show that COVID-19-related concerns are controlled by subjective physical health, while pandemic denial is linked to psychological distress. In an unknown and critical situation, with limited control over the situation, the strategy of avoidance or suppression may be used by individuals for protection by psychologically downplaying the stressor and danger.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 04 Medizin
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8643
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Weitere Angaben zur Dokumentart:	Scientific article
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Zeitschrift:	International journal of environmental research and public health 19 21
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	14538
Verlag:	MDPI
Verlagsort:	Basel
Erscheinungsdatum:	2022
ISSN:	1660-4601
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.3390/ijerph192114538
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	DFG-491381577-G