Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2023

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed an extremely high number of lives worldwide, causing widespread panic and stress. The current research examined whether COVID-19 stress was associated with everyday cognitive failures, using data from a seven-day daily diary study of 253 young adults in Singapore. Multilevel modeling revealed that COVID-19 stress was significantly associated with cognitive failures even after adjusting for demographic factors, both at the within-person and between-persons levels. Specifically, individuals experienced more cognitive failures on days they experienced more COVID-19 stress (as compared to their own average levels of COVID-19 stress), and individuals who experienced more COVID-19 stress overall (as compared to individuals who experienced less COVID-19 stress overall) experienced more cognitive failures in general. While a large body of work has evidenced the detrimental effects of COVID-19 stress on individuals’ well-being, the current findings provide novel insights that these stressors may negatively impact individuals’ cognitive functioning as well.

Keywords

COVID-19, stress, cognitive failures, daily diary, multilevel modeling

Discipline

Asian Studies | Cognitive Psychology | Public Health | Social Psychology

Research Areas

Psychology

Publication

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

Volume

17

First Page

1

Last Page

10

ISSN

1834-4909

Identifier

10.1177/18344909231208119

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Copyright Owner and License

Authors-CC-BY

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/18344909231208119

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