Author(s): Andrade, Graça ; Luís, Tamara ; Santos, Margarida ; Grilo, Ana ; Pinto, Marta Vasconcelos ; Rodrigues, Matilde A. ; Almeida-Silva, Marina
Date: 2022
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/16368
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Subject(s): COVID-19; Mental health; Well-being; Young adult; IPL/2021/Vaccin2you_CE EsTESL
The European Commission referred to the COVID generation and highlighted an increase of 25% in the number of mental illness problems in adolescents and young people, related to COVID-19 and associated lockdown measures. A critical review of longitudinal studies about the impact of COVID-19 on youth mental health points out the increase in: externalized disorders; suicide ideation and attempts; frequency and problematic use of substances in some higher-risk youth; disordered eating symptomatology. Aims of the study: to understand how young adults perceive short and long-term consequences (positive and negative) of the pandemic on their mental health and psychological well-being; to relate the individual characteristics relevant to psychological adaptation to the pandemic with positive and negative perceptions of pandemic consequences.
