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SUBMITTER: Shrira A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7251397 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 20200527 11
<h4>Objective</h4>The study examined whether subjective age moderated the relationship between loneliness due to the COVID-19 pandemic and psychiatric symptoms.<h4>Methods</h4>A convenience sample of older adult Israelis (N = 277, mean age = 69.58 ± 6.72) completed web-based questionnaires comprising loneliness, anxiety, depressive, and peritraumatic distress symptoms. They also reported how old they felt.<h4>Results</h4>The positive relationship between loneliness due to the COVID-19 pandemic a ...[more]