ArticleJournal of health psychology2022
The relationship between COVID-19-induced death thoughts and depression during a national lockdown.
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- Death recollection moderates stress-influenced depression in Thai boarding school students.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- One-year predictors of PTSD symptoms, anxiety, and depression in SARS-CoV-2 survivors: psychological flexibility and major life events as main predictive factors.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Two years COVID-19 pandemic: Development of university students' mental health 2020-2022.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Czech citizens: how do depression and anxiety symptoms influence cognitive, behavioral, and emotional changes?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The effect of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions on oswestry disability index scores: a comparative cross-sectional study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022Observational
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Abstract
Evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased rates of depression worldwide. Many factors have been identified to relate to this increase depression, but according to Terror Management Theory, the heightened awareness of death during the pandemic has the potential to increase depression for those with low self-esteem. This hypothesis was examined in a U.K. sample during the first national lockdown where depression, self-esteem and death-thought accessibility (DTA) were measured, and a COVID Index (COVID-19 cases and deaths on date of participation) was produced. The COVID Index was positively related to DTA. Additionally, DTA mediated the relationship between the COVID Index and depression scores when participants had low levels of self-esteem. These findings suggest that heightened existential concerns may be a neglected factor increasing depression during the pandemic.
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