2022 American Psychosomatic Society (Long Beach, California)
2022 American Psychosomatic Society
Poster by Amanda Small While the COVID-19 pandemic shows impacts on individual psychological distress, the patterns are complex. Amanda's poster presentation showed in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic a person's daily distress was related to the number of COVID-19 deaths reported that day. This relationship was most notable in the inverse relationship of distress variability with COVID-19 deaths, a potentially numbed or sustained response. These results provide insight into adaption and experiences during the early stages of a chronic stressor and highlight distress vulnerability as they relate to environmental features.