Exposure to COVID‐19 pandemic stress: Associations with depression and anxiety in emerging adults in the United States

• Published in: Depression and anxiety Vol. 37; no. 12; pp. 1280 - 1288
• Main Authors: Kujawa, Autumn, Green, Haley, Compas, Bruce E., Dickey, Lindsay, Pegg, Samantha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Adult; Anxiety; Anxiety - epidemiology; coronavirus; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; depression; Depression - epidemiology; Female; Humans; Mental depression; Pandemics; Psychopathology; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Resilience (Psychology); SARS-CoV-2; Stress; Stress, Psychological - epidemiology; United States - epidemiology; young adult; Young adults; United States; anxiety; coronavirus; young adult; depression; pandemics

Background Stressful events due to the coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic are likely to have profound effects on mental health, and validated methods for assessing these experiences and associations with psychopathology are needed. We developed the Pandemic Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) and t...