| Autor: |
Matud MP; Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, España., Díaz A; Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, España., Pino MJD; Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, España., Fortes D; Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, España., Ibáñez I; Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, España. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Cadernos de saude publica [Cad Saude Publica] 2024 Mar 22; Vol. 40 (3), pp. e00141523. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 22 (Print Publication: 2024). |
| DOI: |
10.1590/0102-311XEN141523 |
| Abstrakt: |
This study aimed to examine gender differences in distress and well-being two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing risk and protective factors for psychological distress and subjective well-being. It is a repeated cross-sectional study with a sample of 1,588 women (50%) and men (50%) from the general Spanish population aged 18-74 years who were assessed online by seven questionnaires and scales. Descriptive, variance, and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed. From February to April 2022, 57.4% of women and 38.7% of men had psychological distress, percentages that totaled 50.5% and 41.5%, respectively, from October 2022 to February 2023. Women also had greater perceived vulnerability to diseases, more negative feelings, and lower affect balance, resilience, and self-esteem than men. The most important predictors of greater psychological distress refer to lower self-esteem, resilience, and social support and higher perceived vulnerability to diseases. Other statistically significant predictors included lower educational level in women and neither being married nor living with a partner in men. Lower self-esteem also best predicted lower subjective well-being, with lower social support and lower resilience also constituting significant predictors. Moreover, lower educational level and higher perceived vulnerability to diseases statistically and significantly predicted lower subjective well-being in women, as did not being a student in men. We conclude that psychological distress remains greatly prevalent in Spain two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in women. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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