The effects of COVID-19 continuous traumatic stressors on mental health and cognitive functioning: A case example from Turkey
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Tarih
2021
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Yayıncı
Springer
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
There is a need to accurately assess the specific impacts of the various traumatic stressors caused by COVID-19 on mental health.
The goal was to evaluate the impact of different types of COVID-19 stressors (infection fears, lockdown, and economic stressors)
on mental health and cognitive functioning. We used a sample of 262 Turkish adults. We administered an online questionnaire
that included measures of COVID-19 traumatic stressors, PTSD, depression, anxiety, executive function deficits, and cumulative
stressors and traumas (CST). The analyses included correlations, hierarchical regression, path analysis, and PROCESS mediation
analysis. All COVID-19 traumatic stressors types and their cumulative load predicted PTSD, depression, anxiety, and executive
function deficits after controlling for previous cumulative stressors and traumas and COVID-19 infection. COVID-19 lockdown’s stressors were the strongest predictors, compared to COVID-19 fears and economic stressors. Path analysis and
PROCESS mediation results indicated that COVID-19 traumatic stressors had direct effects on working memory deficits, direct
and indirect effects on PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and indirect effects on inhibition deficits. Anxiety, depression, and inhibition
deficits mediated its indirect effects on PTSD. The results have conceptual and clinical implications. COVID-19 continuous
posttraumatic stress syndrome that includes comorbid PTSD, depression, anxiety, and executive function deficits is different and
does not fit within the current trauma frameworks. There is a need for a paradigm shift in current stress and trauma frameworks to
account for the COVID-19 continuous global stressors and for clinical innovations in intervention to help its victims.
Açıklama
WOS:000641673200002
PMID: 33897228
PMID: 33897228
Anahtar Kelimeler
COVID-19 traumatic stressors, Executive functions, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety
Kaynak
Current Psychology
WoS Q Değeri
Q2
Scopus Q Değeri
Q2
Cilt
Early Access
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Künye
Kira, İ.A., Alpay, E.H., Ayna, Y.E., Shuwiekh, H.A.M., Ashby, J.S. ve Türkeli, A. (2021). The effects of COVID-19 continuous traumatic stressors on mental health and cognitive functioning: A case example from Turkey. Current Psychology, Early Access.
