On 31 December 2019, China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about cases of pneumonia with unknown etiology, later connected to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Our data further highlight several protective factors that policymakers should leverage when considering stress-reducing policies. Altogether, our data suggest that humans adapt even to prolonged stressful events. Longitudinally, we found no increase in distress or paranoia despite an increase in expectation of how long the outbreak and the restrictions will last, suggesting respondents engaged in healthy coping and adapting their lives to the new circumstances. Risk factors were financial worries and a negative mindset, e.g., feeling a lack of control. We found that thriving, keeping a regular schedule, engaging in physical exercise and less procrastination served as factors protecting against distress and paranoia. More than 800 of these participants also completed a follow-up study in July. In April 2020, over 2,500 participants were recruited for an observational study measuring protective and obstructive factors for distress and paranoia. Here we studied resilience, a successful adaptation despite risk and adversity, in five countries: Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and Norway. A prolonged pandemic can harm global levels of optimism, regularity, and sense of meaning and belonging, yielding adverse effects on individuals' mental health as represented by worry, paranoia, and distress. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has affected all countries with more than 100 million confirmed cases and over 2.1 million casualties by the end of January 2021 worldwide. 5Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.4Evolution of Human Behavior Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Behavior, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.3Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.2Department of Psychology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
1Department of Psychology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.Tamayo 5, Kristoffer Klevjer 1 and Gerit Pfuhl 1 * Martin Jensen Mækelæ 1 †, Niv Reggev 2 †, Renata P.
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