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16.09.2022 | Short Paper

Older adults’ prevention and communication to beat anxiety: the diminishing utility of proactive coping actions

verfasst von: Honglian Xiang, Jintao Luo, Jia Zhou, Ziyao Zhou

Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society | Ausgabe 4/2023

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Abstract

This study aims to investigate older adults’ psychological reactions when facing changes in daily life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-epidemic measures. Specifically, this study investigated the impacts of communication types (i.e., electronic and face-to-face communication) and frequency during the pandemic and the kinds of proactive coping actions taken by older adults on their anxiety. A total of 43,019 respondents were included in this study by merging two longitudinal databases. One is the seventh wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) conducted in 2017, and the other is the COVID-19 Survey of SHARE, which was conducted between June and August 2020. This study found that one third of older adults reported anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and one fifth reported increased anxiety than before the pandemic. Anxiety symptoms seem somewhat prevalent among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, the more kinds of proactive coping actions taken by older adults, the more likely they felt anxious. As the pandemic continues and develops, taking proactive coping actions might no longer alleviate anxiety in older adults, showing a diminishing utility. In addition, face to face communication was found to decrease the likelihood of anxiety symptoms in older adults, whereas the opposite impact of electronic communication was found. For older adults, contacting others by electronic means may increase their anxiety feeling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Metadaten
Titel
Older adults’ prevention and communication to beat anxiety: the diminishing utility of proactive coping actions
verfasst von
Honglian Xiang
Jintao Luo
Jia Zhou
Ziyao Zhou
Publikationsdatum
16.09.2022
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Universal Access in the Information Society / Ausgabe 4/2023
Print ISSN: 1615-5289
Elektronische ISSN: 1615-5297
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-022-00915-6

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