# Psychosocial Stress and Adaptation to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Latinx Population

> **NIH NIH U01** · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $384,408

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Latinos in the United States have been disproportionately affected by the economic, health, and psychosocial
stressors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet this population remains understudied and underserved in
current research. The current project aims to fill this gap by studying adults from the California Families Project
(CFP), a long-standing longitudinal study of Mexican-origin adults who have been followed longitudinally for
over 14 years across middle adulthood (approximate N = 900 in this proposed supplement). The purpose of
the proposed research under this supplement is to add (a) an assessment of COVID-19-related stress
exposure and behavior, (b) an additional assessment of cognition and physical health, and (c) a COVID-19
antibody test for participants in the CFP. To meet this objective, the research team will undertake two specific
aims. First, we will identify cognitive, socioeconomic, personality, and social/relational predictors of cumulative
stress burden related to COVID-19 and test whether COVID-19-related stress is associated with declines in
cognitive function and physical health. For the second aim, we will test pre-pandemic cognitive,
socioeconomic, personality, and social/relational predictors of compliance with COVID-19 prophylactic
measures (e.g., mask wearing, social distancing) and willingness to be vaccinated. We will also test the extent
to which compliance with prophylactic measures predicts physical health outcomes, such as COVID-19
infection as reflected by a laboratory IgG antibody test. Accomplishing these aims will allow us to characterize
the detrimental effects of cumulative stress burden related to the pandemic on concurrent and long-term
trajectories in cognitive function and risk for Alzheimer’s disease, as well as identify risk and resilience factors
within this population. Furthermore, analyses of the cognitive, socioeconomic, personality, and social/relational
predictors of compliance with COVID-19 prophylactic measures and of willingness to be vaccinated against
COVID-19 will directly inform public health efforts to reduce the adverse consequences of the current and
future pandemics for a particularly vulnerable population.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10309021
- **Project number:** 3U01AG060164-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD W ROBINS
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $384,408
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10309021

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10309021, Psychosocial Stress and Adaptation to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Latinx Population (3U01AG060164-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10309021. Licensed CC0.

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