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- Current impact of COVID-19 on mental health and wellbeing: young adults' perspectivePublication . Andrade, Graça; Luís, Tamara; Santos, Margarida; Grilo, Ana; Pinto, Marta Vasconcelos; Rodrigues, Matilde A.; Almeida-Silva, MarinaThe European Commission referred to the COVID generation and highlighted an increase of 25% in the number of mental illness problems in adolescents and young people, related to COVID-19 and associated lockdown measures. A critical review of longitudinal studies about the impact of COVID-19 on youth mental health points out the increase in: externalized disorders; suicide ideation and attempts; frequency and problematic use of substances in some higher-risk youth; disordered eating symptomatology. Aims of the study: to understand how young adults perceive short and long-term consequences (positive and negative) of the pandemic on their mental health and psychological well-being; to relate the individual characteristics relevant to psychological adaptation to the pandemic with positive and negative perceptions of pandemic consequences.