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longitudinal analysis of covid-19 anxiety and mental well-being during lockdown ...
We aim to answer specific research questions:

1. Has mental well-being changed during the lockdown for the
COVID-19 pandemic?
2. Has COVID-19 anxiety changed during the lockdown for the
COVID-19 pandemic?
3. Do emotional self-efficacy and practicing mindfulness have
an effect on the initial levels and changes in COVID-19 anxie-
ty and mental well-being during the lockdown for the COVID-19
pandemic?

2 Method

2.1 Participants
Forty-five Slovenian participants were included in the convenience sample,
collected via the snowball method (through email lists and social media).
The data comes from a larger study of psychological responses to the COV-
ID-19 pandemic, but only participants with complete data from at least
two-time points were included in the current sample. The participants (n =
45) at time 1 (T1) were mostly female (86.7%; 11.1% male; 2.2% non-binary),
aged between 18 and 72 (M = 39.4; SD = 14.6), employed (62.2%; 13.3% stu-
dents; 11.1% retired; 8.9% self-employed; 4.4% unemployed), mostly worked
from home (59.4%; 21.9% mostly worked at their workplace; 12.5% waiting
at home; 6.3% other), had completed a 4-to-5 year university degree (48.9
%; 20.0% 2-to-3 year higher education degree, 15.6% doctorate or scientific
Master’s program; 13.3% high school, 2.2% non-completed primary school),
lived with one other person (40%; 28.9 lived with two other persons; 20%
lived with three or more other persons; 11.1% lived alone), and indicated that
they were not infected with COVID-19 (97.8%; 2.2 % did not know because
they weren’t tested). The participant demographics at T2 (n = 41; 85.4% fe-
male), T3 (n = 21; 95.2% female), and T4 (n = 18; 88.9% female) did not signif-
icantly differ compared to T1.

2.2 Instruments
The instrument battery consisted of questionnaires capturing psycholog-
ical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and emotional competencies.
Demographics and information on being interested in or using inner and/
or body exercises were collected. Items were reformulated to match the spe-
cific period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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