@ARTICLE{Mirucka_Beata_Significant_2021,
 author={Mirucka, Beata and Bielecka, Urszula and Mirucka, Maria and Kępińska, Natalia},
 volume={vol. 52},
 number={No 3},
 pages={289-298},
 journal={Polish Psychological Bulletin},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2021},
 publisher={Committee for Psychological Science PAS},
 abstract={The study was conducted to identify significant predictors of psychological distress in the group of young Polish adults during COVID-19 epidemic outbreak. The web-based cross-sectional survey was applied to 975 Polish respondents (755 female, 77.44%) aged 18-35 years. They were divided into two age groups: younger (18-25) and older (25-35). All participants completed: General Functioning Questionnaire (GFQ), COVID-19 Risk Perception Scale (C-RPS), State Anxiety Inventory (STAI-S), and General Sense of Threat to Life Scale (GSTLS). The Polish adults aged 18-25 years manifested significantly higher psychological distress, state anxiety, and a sense of threat to life, but they perceived less risk in COVID-19 epidemic compared to older participants. Risk perception and a sense of threat to life were indirectly related to state anxiety and psychological distress. Significant predictors of psychological distress in the group of young adult Poles during the COVID-19 epidemic are: state anxiety, risk perception, and a sense of threat to life, where risk perception and a sense of threat to life mediate the relation between state anxiety and psychological distress.},
 type={Article},
 title={Significant predictors of psychological distress in the group of Polish young adults during the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak: Sequential mediation model},
 URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/121031/PDF/2021-03-PPB-07-Mirucka-etal.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/ppb.2021.137891},
 keywords={coronavirus, psychological distress, state anxiety, risk perception, young adults},
}