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Everyday discrimination and trajectories of transdiagnostic symptoms of depression and anxiety among young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: = 129). Results demonstrated that higher pre-pandemic everyday discrimination predicted less change in General Distress and Anhedonia-Apprehension from pre-COVID to the first COVID timepoint, but slower reductions in Anhedonia-Apprehension throughout early stages of the pandemic. Discrimination neither significantly predicted pre-COVID to COVID change in Fears, nor change in Fears or General Distress across COVID timepoints. Findings from this study suggest that pre-pandemic discrimination may have led to an initial symptom buffering response, but ultimately served as a sensitizing factor for a slower return to baseline as far as Anhedonia-Apprehension during the COVID-19 pandemic. Future work is needed to further examine the combined impact of discrimination and concurrent stressors on symptom progression.

Source: Stigma and Health

DOI: 10.1037/sah0000530