The COVID-19 pandemic also brought changes on a psychological level of individuals. That is why the purpose of our research was to see how people experienced the pandemic period, which factors contributed the most to experiencing negative emotions and stress, and how they were able to manage it. There were 433 participants, older than 18 years who participated in the research. There were 365 (84,3%) women. Average age was 34,3 years (SD = 11,3), age variated from 18 to 77 years. Participants filled out the Expanded Form of the Positive Affect Negative Affect Scale (PANAS-X), Brief Coping Orientation To Problems Experienced (Brief COPE), short version of The Big Five Questionnaire (BFI-K) and a few relevant questions from the Ebola Fear Inventory (EFI). We also created a list of 11 factors of origin of affect for which participants had to indicate whether they affected them positively or negatively. Results showed that participants more often experienced positive than negative affect. Women, younger participants, and participants with higher levels of neuroticism experienced more negative affect. Education was not an important factor in this. Media, COVID-19 measures, restricted contacts with loved ones and undefined duration of the pandemic, caused the most negative affect among participants. Whereas family relations and relations among a household were a very common source of positive affect. The most common predictor of negative and positive affect were challenges connected to work and study from home. We believe it is highly important to give extra attention to the above exposed factors. Participants were generally successful with stress coping; the most used coping strategies were acceptance and positive reframing.
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