The Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Stress on Mental Health and Identity Among College Students.

Ellie Mitova, Erick Z Negron, Lexi Bratek, Alyssa Leong, Steven L Berman

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Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ellie MitovaDepartment of Psychology, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-8034-2185

Erick Z NegronDepartment of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-9467-7417

Lexi BratekDepartment of Psychology, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.

Alyssa LeongDepartment of Psychology, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.

Steven L BermanDepartment of Psychology, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.

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The COVID-19 pandemic had widespread psychological effects, prompting research into long-term impacts on mental health and identity development. This retrospective study examined how pandemic-related stress affected obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) and generalized anxiety symptoms across three timepoints, prior to the pandemic (2019-February 2020), during the height of the pandemic (March 2020-2022), and the present (within the past month), and how changes in these symptoms relates to identity. The sample consisted of undergraduate students (

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COVID-19generalized anxietyidentityidentity distressobsessive–compulsive symptomsstress

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PMID41595010

DOI10.3390/bs16010069

PMCPMC12838277

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