Exploring psychological vulnerability and responses to the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

Lydia Xourafi, Polyxeni Sardi and Anastasia Kostaki

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, 477-498

Abstract: Supplementary File Supplementary material This study explores the psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on thepopulation in Greece during the general lockdown period. Specifically, depression,anxiety and stress scores, as well as the factors associated with vulnerability todeveloping mental health conditions during this period, were investigated. A totalof 911 adults participated in an online survey by completing a self-reporting questionnairethat included demographic questions, DASS-42 items (anxiety, stress anddepression scales) and other questions related to personal experience. Regressionmodelling uncovered a significant relationship between gender and DASS scores,with women having significantly higher scores than men for all mental healthproblems. Participants aged 20–39 years were especially vulnerable to experiencingpoor mental health. Unemployed participants reported having worse mental healththan others. Having more perceived psychosocial support during the pandemicwas associated with lower overall scores. Thus, women, young adults and theunemployed exhibited particularly high levels of vulnerability, while individualswho received social support from relatives and friends during the lockdown weremore resilient to the effects of social isolation.

Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576_0x003d9897.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vid:yearbk:v:20:y:2022:i:1:oid:0x003d9897

Access Statistics for this article

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research is currently edited by Tomas Sobotka and Maria Winkler-Dworak

More articles in Vienna Yearbook of Population Research from Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bernhard Rengs ().