dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-07T20:21:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-07T20:21:58Z | |
dc.date.created | 2021-01-05T15:38:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bredal, Inger Schou Grimholt, Tine Kristin Bonsaksen, Tore Skogstad, Laila Heir, Trond Ekeberg, Øivind . Optimists’ and pessimists’ self-reported mental and global health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway. Health Psychology Report. 2021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/82992 | |
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. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.publisher | Termedia Publishing House | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Optimists’ and pessimists’ self-reported mental and global health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Bredal, Inger Schou | |
dc.creator.author | Grimholt, Tine Kristin | |
dc.creator.author | Bonsaksen, Tore | |
dc.creator.author | Skogstad, Laila | |
dc.creator.author | Heir, Trond | |
dc.creator.author | Ekeberg, Øivind | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,52,12,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Avdeling for sykepleievitenskap | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1865818 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Health Psychology Report&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2021 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | Health Psychology Report | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5114/hpr.2021.102394 | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:no-85767 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 2353-4184 | |
dc.identifier.fulltext | Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/82992/2/Schou%2BBredal%2Bet%2Bal.%252C%2B2021%252C%2Boptimists%2Band%2Bpessimists%2Bself-reported%2Bmental%2Bhealth.pdf | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |