The worst and the best: new insights into risk and resilience in young adults from the COVID-19 pandemic

Shanahan, Lilly; Johnson-Ferguson, Lydia; Loher, Michelle; Steinhoff, Annekatrin; Bechtiger, Laura; Murray, Aja Louise; Hepp, Urs; Ribeaud, Denis; Eisner, Manuel

doi:10.1007/s42844-023-00096-y

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Shanahan, L., Johnson-Ferguson, L., Loher, M., Steinhoff, A., Bechtiger, L., Murray, A. L., Hepp, U., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2023). The worst and the best: new insights into risk and resilience in young adults from the COVID-19 pandemic. Adversity and Resilience Science, 4(3), 291–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42844-023-00096-y

Abstract

Historic declines in young people’s mental health began to emerge before the COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of this youth mental health crisis, the pandemic constituted a naturalistic stressor paradigm that came with the potential to uncover new knowledge for the science of risk and resilience. Surprisingly, approximately 19-35% of people reported better well-being in the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic than before. Therefore, in May and September 2020, we asked N=517 young adults from a cohort study to describe the best and