The Mental Health Continuum During the Covid-19 Pandemic in a General Population of Argentine Adults

Authors

  • Leandro Eidman Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales, Chaco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22544/rcps.v40i02.02

Keywords:

Mental health continuum, SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, Anxiety, Depression, Intolerance to uncertainty

Abstract

The people’s mental health analysis in SARS-Cov-2 pandemic context constitutes a highly relevant challenge for current psychology. The present research had two goals, fi rstly to analyze the associations between the mental health continuum and symptoms of anxiety, depression and intolerance to uncertainty in Argentine adults in the COVID-19 pandemic, and secondly to compare the levels of emotional, psychological and social well-being according to psychological assistance in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study included a sample of 1120 adults between 18 and 84 years of age (Mage 37.32, SD = 14.81), 60.1% women and 39.9% men. The results reported that the associations between levels of emotional, psychological, social and total well-being and symptomsof depression and intolerance of uncertainty were negative and significant. However, the correlations with anxiety symptoms were positive and signifi cant. Significant differences were found in the levels of emotional, psychological, social and total well-being according to attendance to psychotherapeutic treatment. In all cases, people who attended psychotherapeutic treatment showed higher levels of well-being compared to those who did not. It is concluded that people who were in the fl ourishing mental health category and underwent psychotherapeutic treatment showed lower indicators of depression and intolerance to uncertainty.

Author Biography

Leandro Eidman, Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales, Chaco

Doctor en Psicología por la  Universidad de Palermo. Licenciado en psicología por la Universidad de Palermo, con diploma de honor Cum Laude. Especialista en psicoterapia cognitiva por la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Diplomado en Neurociencias  Cognitivas, Neuropsicología y Neuropsiquiatría Universidad Favaloro. Diplomado en Neuropsicológico en adultos y niños en la Universidad de Bologna Italia. Diplomado en Neurociencias y Neuropsicología  Clínica por Albert Ellis Institute Nueva  York. Miembro fundador del área de Neuropsicología Clínica del Hospital Julio C. Perrando,  Resistencia - Chaco.  Director Científico de la Red de Psicólogos Especializados en Catástrofes Argentina. Docente e Investigador principal en Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales.

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Published

2021-12-28

How to Cite

Eidman, L. (2021). The Mental Health Continuum During the Covid-19 Pandemic in a General Population of Argentine Adults. Costa Rican Journal of Psychology, 40(2), 93105. https://doi.org/10.22544/rcps.v40i02.02