Anxiety, depression, working from home, and health-related behaviours during COVID-19: structural equation modelling and serial mediation of associations with angina, heart attacks and stroke
Lopes, B. and Kamau-Mitchell, Caroline (2024) Anxiety, depression, working from home, and health-related behaviours during COVID-19: structural equation modelling and serial mediation of associations with angina, heart attacks and stroke. Journal of Health Psychology , ISSN 1359-1053. (In Press)
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Abstract
Based on the vulnerability-stress model and coping theory, this study of 1,920 people in Scotland investigated how sex, age, occupational factors, anxiety, depression, and maladaptive coping behaviours are associated with cardiovascular health. Structural equation modelling and serial Sobel mediation tests were conducted. Anxiety was associated with past arrhythmia, whereas depression was associated with past heart attacks, stroke, and angina. Females reported more anxiety, past arrhythmia, confectionary and alcohol consumption, whereas males had more heart attacks. Confectionary consumption was associated with past arrhythmia, and alcohol consumption was associated with past heart attacks. Being older was associated with depression, past stroke, arrhythmia, and alcohol consumption. Being younger was associated with anxiety and smoking. Depression and smoking mediated the relationship between type of working and cardiovascular health history, potentially because of socioeconomic factors. Clinicians can use these results to advise clients about cardiovascular risks associated with anxiety, depression, demographics, and health-related coping behaviours.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | occupational health, organizational psychology, organisational psychology, mental health, alcohol consumption, anxiety, cardiovascular diseases, early COVID-19, depression, health behaviours, working from home, smoking, sugar consumption, stroke, angina, arrhythmia, irregular heart beat, homeworking, heart disease, coping theory, vulnerability stress model |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Medical Humanities, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Caroline Kamau |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2024 17:25 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Feb 2024 01:10 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/52809 |
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