ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2022
Racial and ethnic differences in perseverative cognition at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Gender differences in COVID-19-related behaviours: evidence from three ethnic minority groups.Current issues in personality psychology · 2024Article
- Psychology Meets Biology in COVID-19: What We Know and Why It Matters for Public Health.Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences · 2023Article
- Prosociality and health: Identification with all humanity is a replicable predictor of prosocial motivation for health behaviors.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
rationaleCoronavirus (COVID-19) disproportionately affects people of color (e.g., Black and Latinx individuals) in the U.S., increasing their morbidity and mortality relative to White people. Despite this greater threat to their well-being, the mental health impact of COVID-19 on people of color remains poorly understood. Perseverative cognition (PC; i.e., excessive worry and/or rumination), is a common psychological response to such threats that independently associates with poor mental and physical health.
objectiveTo examine patterns of PC across race/ethnicity when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
methodsThis study surveyed 6,514 respondents from the NORC AmeriSpeak panel, a probability-based representative national sample of U.S. adults between 3/18/20-4/18/20. We employed traditional statistical analyses and natural language processing of open-ended data to examine pandemic-related worries.
resultsWeighted regression analyses with relevant covariates revealed group differences across specific domains of COVID-related worry. Relative to White respondents, Hispanic/Latino respondents reported more worries about social disarray, meeting basic needs, experiencing economic impacts, obtaining healthcare, and contracting COVID-19. Black respondents reported more worry about economic impacts relative to Whites. Additional group differences in worry emerged in open-ended data: Black respondents perseverated about death from COVID-19, whereas Hispanic/Latino respondents reported concerns about COVID-19 spread, and people refusing to uphold mitigation mandates. In contrast, White respondents expressed worry over compromised immune systems and economic collapse.
conclusionsResults identify significant group differences in COVID-19 related PC, suggesting that people of color faced greater threat to mental well-being at the onset of the pandemic, and may be at greater risk for downstream PC-related physical health consequences.
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