COVID anxiety and its predictors among Slovak adolescents
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F22%3A73615615" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/22:73615615 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993003/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993003/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993003" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
COVID anxiety and its predictors among Slovak adolescents
Original language description
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic and its related restrictions, mainly social distancing, had an impact on the mental health of various groups, including adolescents. MethodsThe main goal of our study was to explore the impact of gender, age, resilience (measured using the Brief Resilience Scale), attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance (both measured using the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised Scale for adolescents), and mental and general health (measured using items of SF-8 Health Survey) on COVID anxiety (measured using the COVID Anxiety Scale) among a sample of Slovak adolescents (N = 1,786, age 15 to 19, mean age = 16.8, SD = 1.2). The data were collected online between 13 April and 24 May 2021. ResultsFour nested linear regression models were fitted to the data and evaluated. The significant predictors that had a greater effect than our smallest effect size of interest (beta = 0.10) were gender (beta = -0.26, p < 0.001, where boys had lower scores in COVID anxiety), general and mental health (beta = -0.13 and beta = -0.14, respectively, both with p < 0.001), resilience (beta = -0.12, p < 0.001), and attachment avoidance (beta = -0.11, p < 0.001). Similarly, age and attachment anxiety were significant predictors with a lower effect size (beta = 0.06, p = 0.003, and beta = 0.09, p < 0.001, respectively). DiscussionOur results are in line with previous research findings highlighting the importance of prevention and interventions programs focused mainly on preventing loneliness and social disconnection, fostering secure attachment with parents and peers, and increasing the resilience of adolescents, especially in the stressful time of a pandemic, to promote their mental health.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN
1664-1078
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
DECEMBER 2022
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
nestrankovano
UT code for WoS article
000901919500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85144916099