Out of all pandemic-related stressors, fear of infection was deemed to be the most burdensome, followed by restricted activity, and then restricted social contact.

New York University

Some pandemic-related stressors that are associated with higher levels of Adjustment Disorder symptoms are: 
- Fear of infection
- Government crisis management
- Limited social contact/activity
- Work-related issues (job loss)
- Housing related issues

Pandemic-Related Stressors Associated with Higher levels of Adjustment Disorder/ Adjustment Disorder Symptoms

Annett Lotzin, Linda Krause, Elena Acquarini, Dean Ajdukovic, Vittoria Ardino, Filip Arnberg, Maria Böttche, Maria Bragesjö, Małgorzata Dragan, Margarida Figueiredo-Braga, Odeta Gelezelyte, Piotr Grajewski, Xenia Anastassiou-Hadjicharalambous, Jana Darejan Javakhishvili, Evaldas Kazlauskas, Lonneke Lenferink, Chrysanthi Lioupi, Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, Lela Tsiskarishvili, Trudy Mooren, Luisa Sales, Aleksandra Stevanovic, Irina Zrnic, Ingo Schäfer & ADJUST Study Consortium (2021) Risk and protective factors, stressors, and symptoms of adjustment disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic – First results of the ESTSS COVID-19 pan-European ADJUST study, European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12:1, DOI: 10.1080/20008198.2021.1964197


Risk and protective factors, stressors, and symptoms of adjustment disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic – First results of the ESTSS COVID-19 pan-European ADJUST study

These stressors made no difference of whether or not someone may develop an Adjustment Disorder:

- Restricted access to resources (goods, health care, medicine, or insufficient capacity in the healthcare system for ill people)
- Burden of infection (being infected, infection of a loved one, death of a loved one due to a covid infection)

Pandemic-Related Stressors with No Associations with Adjustment Disorders

How Burdensome Pandemic-Related Stressors Are

Participants were asked if they thought they were at risk of developing severe Covid symptoms, a major stressor. Below are their answers organized by sociodemographic characteristics (risk and protective factors).

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