Diurnal dynamics of stress and mood during COVID-19 lockdown: a large multinational ecological momentary assessment study
- Autor(en)
- Anja Feneberg, Paul Forbes, Giulio Piperno, Ekaterina Pronizius, Ana Stijovic, Nadine Skoluda, Claus Lamm, Urs Markus Nater, Giorgia Silani
- Abstrakt
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe disruption to people's lives as governments imposed national ‘lockdowns’. Several large surveys have underlined the detrimental short- and long-term mental health consequences resulting from this disruption, but survey findings are only informative of individuals' retrospectively reported psychological states. Furthermore, knowledge on psychobiological responses to lockdown restrictions is scarce. We used smartphone-based real-time assessments in 731 participants for 7 days and investigated how individuals’ self-reported stress and mood fluctuated diurnally during lockdown in spring 2020. We found that age, gender, financial security, depressive symptoms and trait loneliness modulated the diurnal dynamics of participants' momentary stress and mood. For example, younger and less financially secure individuals showed an attenuated decline in stress as the day progressed, and similarly, more lonely individuals showed a diminished increase in calmness throughout the day. Hair collected from a subsample n= 140) indicated a decrease in cortisol concentrations following lockdown, but these changes were not related to any of the assessed person-related characteristics. Our findings provide novel insights into the psychobiological impact of lockdown and have implications for how, when and which individuals might benefit most from interventions during psychologically demanding periods.
- Organisation(en)
- Forschungsplattform The Stress of Life - Processes and Mechanisms underlying Everyday Life Stress, Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden, Institut für Klinische und Gesundheitspsychologie
- Journal
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Band
- 289
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 10
- ISSN
- 0962-8452
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2480
- Publikationsdatum
- 05-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 501010 Klinische Psychologie
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Allgemeine Agrar- und Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine Umweltwissenschaft, Allgemeine Immunologie und Mikrobiologie, Allgemeine Biochemie, Genetik und Molekularbiologie
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 – Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4c40b1a7-bb5b-4155-8cae-a24d6343c911