Vargová Lenka, Mikulášková Gabriela, Fedáková Denisa, Lačný Martin, Babjáková Jaroslava, Šlosáriková Martina, Babinčák Peter, Ropovik Ivan, Adamkovič Matúš
Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Presov, Prešov, Slovakia.
Instytut Psychologii, Wyższa Szkoła Humanitas, Humanitas University, Sosnowiec, Poland.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Aug 18;13:934293. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.934293. eCollection 2022.
The changes in people's mental health have become one of the hot topics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parents have been said to be among the most vulnerable groups in terms of the imposed anti-pandemic measures. The present paper analyzes the trends in mental health indicators in a sample of Slovak parents ( = 363) who participated in four waves of data collection over a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mental health indicators were represented by general levels of depression and anxiety as well as COVID-related stress and anxiety. While there were only minor changes in depression and anxiety, the dynamic in COVID-related stress and especially anxiety was more noteworthy. Besides some exceptions, the results hold even after controlling for the socioeconomic situation. The gender differences in the mental health trends were found to be negligible. Overall, we observed no substantial deterioration in the mental health indicators across the four waves of the study.
在新冠疫情期间，人们心理健康的变化已成为热门话题之一。据说，就所实施的抗疫措施而言，父母是最脆弱的群体之一。本文分析了斯洛伐克父母样本（(n = 363)）的心理健康指标趋势，这些父母在新冠疫情的一年半时间里参与了四轮数据收集。心理健康指标由抑郁和焦虑的总体水平以及与新冠相关的压力和焦虑来表示。虽然抑郁和焦虑只有轻微变化，但与新冠相关的压力，尤其是焦虑的动态变化更值得注意。除了一些例外情况，即使在控制了社会经济状况之后，结果仍然成立。研究发现，心理健康趋势中的性别差异可以忽略不计。总体而言，在研究的四轮调查中，我们没有观察到心理健康指标有实质性的恶化。
