Emotional adaptation during a crisis: decline in anxiety and depression after the initial weeks of COVID-19 in the United States

Abstract Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic are known to exacerbate depression and anxiety, though their temporal trajectories remain under-investigated. The present study aims to investigate fluctuations in depression and anxiety using the COVID-19 pandemic as a model crisis. A total of 1512 adul...

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Main Authors: Anastasia Shuster, Madeline O’Brien, Yi Luo, Laura A. Berner, Ofer Perl, Matthew Heflin, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Dongil Chung, Soojung Na, Vincenzo G. Fiore, Xiaosi Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-08-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01552-y