Background: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (April to May 2020), 6,169
Polish and 939 Italian residents were surveyed with an online questionnaire investigating …

Social and cultural aspects (ie, political decision making, discourses in the public sphere,
and people's mindsets) played a crucial role in the ways people responded to the COVID-19 …

Background: This study is a quantitative analysis examining the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on the occurrence of stress and stomatognathic system disorders (SSDs) among …

This study examines the impact of social isolation on risk-taking behavior in highly uncertain
environments with the potential for significant gains and losses. We uncover both direct and …

Abstract The Russian aggression of Ukraine has put millions of civilians under immense
stress and forced many of them to leave their homes for safety and help. Poland became …

The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with a global increase in problematic social
networking sites use (PSNSU). By drawing on transactional stress theory and applying the …

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, immigrant status and being a
member of the LGBT+ community are all independent factors associated with increased …

Numerous studies investigated the adherence to health behaviors during COVID-19;
however, the majority of approaches considered individual factors, while neglecting the …

This study is aimed to examine the impact of mindfulness in the relationship between social
isolation, job and financial insecurity, and stress during the lockdown period of the COVID …

Despite the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided the opportunity to
investigate factors associated with compliance with public health measures that could inform …