多次全球危机对心理健康的综合影响:东德成年人的长度研究
Ernst Peter Richter1, Elmar Brähler2,3, Markus Zenger4,5
1Research Group for Applied Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Journal of clinical medicine
|August 29, 2024
概括
2020年代初的多次全球危机影响了心理健康. 生活成本上升和COVID-19的威胁显著加剧了东德成年人的身体抱怨,精神困扰和睡眠问题.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 2020年代初呈现出全球危机的融合,包括气候变化,COVID-19大流行,地缘政治冲突和经济不稳定.
- 了解这些相互交叉的压力因素对心理健康的累积影响,对于公共卫生倡议至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查气候变化 (PT-CLC),COVID-19 (PT-COV),俄罗斯-乌克兰战争 (PT-RUW) 和生活成本上升 (PT-RCL) 对心理健康结果的感知威胁的复合影响.
- 调查这些感知到的威胁如何影响东德成年人的身体抱怨,精神困扰,睡眠问题,生活满意度和自我评估健康.
主要方法:
- 采用了纵向研究设计,涉及萨克森纵向研究的319名参与者.
- 数据分为两波收集 (2021年3月至7月和2022年9月至12月).
- 线性混合效应模型被用来分析群体趋势和个人层面对各种心理健康指标的影响.
主要成果:
- 组级分析表明,在研究期间,精神困扰和睡眠问题显著增加.
- 个人层面的分析显示,生活成本上升 (PT-RCL) 和COVID-19 (PT-COV) 的更高感知威胁与不良心理健康结果有关.
- 具体来说,PT-RCL和PT-COV与增加的身体投诉,精神困扰,睡眠问题和生活满意度降低相关.
结论:
- 交叉的全球危机对个人的心理健康有着复杂而重大的影响.
- 与气候变化或地缘政治冲突相比,感知到的经济和流行病相关的压力因素对心理健康产生了更直接的不利影响.
- 这些发现强调了在危机时期考虑个人威胁感知的重要性,以了解人口心理健康.
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