Here’s how Americans coped during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
Year: 2020
Type: other
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyday life for Americans.How well are people across the country dealing with the new reality of closed businesses, shuttered schools, social distancing and the threat of the coronavirus itself?As psychology researchers, we decided to conduct an online survey to find out.On March 26, we asked 500 adults from age 19 to 78 a series of questions to help us better understand how Americans are mentally coping with the pandemic.The group represented 47 U.S. states and roughly matched the age, race and gender demographics of the nation.Though not yet peer-reviewed, these responses provide a snapshot of Americans' mental health as the coronavirus pandemic really started to ramp up, as well as a hint about groups who might struggle during this unprecedented time. Doing basically OKOverall, our survey indicated that Americans were coping fairly well as of late March.Our respondents reported only moderate levels of stress and worry about COVID-19, estimating their individual likelihood of becoming infected as only around 30%, on average.Despite the anecdotal impression that younger people are less worried about the pandemic, all age groups reported similar levels of worry and estimated they had about the same chance of being infected.
Language: English
Topic: COVID-19 and Mental Health
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4413514515