dc.contributor.author | Bredal, Inger Schou | |
dc.contributor.author | Grimholt, Tine Kristin | |
dc.contributor.author | Bonsaksen, Tore | |
dc.contributor.author | Skogstad, Laila | |
dc.contributor.author | Heir, Trond | |
dc.contributor.author | Ekeberg, Øivind | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-05T14:38:26Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-20T06:16:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-05T14:38:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-20T06:16:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-01-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bredal I, Grimholt TK, Bonsaksen T, Skogstad L, Heir T, Ekeberg Ø. Optimists’ and pessimists’ self-reported mental and global health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. Health Psychology Report. 2021 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2353-4184 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2353-5571 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/9646 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global health crisis. How well people cope with this situation depends on many factors, including one’s personality, such as dispositional optimism. The aim of the study was to investi-gate: 1) optimists’ and pessimists’ concerns during lockdown, and mental and global health; 2) whether pessi-mists without known risk factors more often than optimists report being at risk for COVID-19. Participants and procedure: A snowball sampling strategy was used; 4,527 people, 18 years or older, participated in a survey on a variety of mental health conditions and COVID-19 worries. In addition, they completed the Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R). Optimism was defined by LOT-R f ≥ 17. Results: Fewer optimists than pessimists reported that they were worried about COVID-19, respectively 51.2% vs. 66.8%, p < .001. Among those reporting none of the known somatic risk factors, more pessimists than optimists (14.3% vs. 9.1%, p < .001) considered themselves at risk of a fatal outcome from COVID-19. Significantly fewer optimists reported that they had anxiety (5.1%), depression (3.4%), suicidal ideation (0.7%) and insomnia (19.3%) during the COVID-19 outbreak than pessimists (24.7% anxiety, 18.4% depression, 5.4% suicidal idea-tion, 39.8% insomnia, all p < .001). Optimists reported better global health than pessimists (87.2 vs. 84.6, p < .001). Conclusions: Optimists were generally less worried about the COVID-19 pandemic than pessimists and reported better men-tal and global health during lockdown. Pessimists more often than optimists reported being at risk for COVID-19 without reporting known risk factors. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Termedia Publishing | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Health Psychology Report; | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Anxiety | en |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | en |
dc.subject | Depressions | en |
dc.subject | Dispositional optimism | en |
dc.subject | Insomnia | en |
dc.title | Optimists’ and pessimists’ self-reported mental and global health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2021-01-05T14:38:26Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr.2021.102394 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1865818 | |
dc.source.journal | Health Psychology Report | |