It is a common understanding that the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) significantly harmed mental health. However, findings on changes in overall life satisfaction have been mixed and inconclusive. To address this puzzling phenomenon, we draw upon the domain-specific perspective of well-being and research on catastrophe compassion and propose that the pandemic can have opposing effects on mental health and communal satisfaction, which then differently relate to people's overall life satisfaction. Longitudinal analyses of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) Survey of Australia (N = 12,093) showed that while there was a greater decrease in mental health in the first COVID-19 pandemic year (2019-2020) than in the previous years (2017-2019), an increase in communal satisfaction also occurred, demonstrating a potential silver lining effect of the pandemic on people's satisfaction with family, community, and neighborhood. Moreover, consistent with socioemotional selectivity theory, changes in mental health, communal satisfaction, and life satisfaction were related to age, such that older adults generally reported less harmful and more beneficial psychological changes. We further found that age was associated with stronger associations of mental health and communal satisfaction with life satisfaction during the pandemic year. Overall, our findings speak to the importance of communal life in life satisfaction during the pandemic and age-related differences in the process, shedding light on the need to devise customized support to address inequalities in pandemic effects on public well-being. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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苦恼但束缚：对 COVID-19 大流行对生活满意度的一线希望影响的纵向调查。

人们普遍认为，2019 年冠状病毒大流行 (COVID-19) 严重损害了心理健康。然而，关于总体生活满意度变化的研究结果好坏参半且尚无定论。为了解决这一令人费解的现象，我们利用特定领域的福祉视角和对灾难同情心的研究，提出这一流行病可能对心理健康和社区满意度产生相反的影响，从而与人们的整体生活满意度产生不同的关系。对澳大利亚家庭、收入和劳动力动态 (HILDA) 调查 (N = 12,093) 的纵向分析显示，尽管在第一个 COVID-19 大流行年份（2019-2020），心理健康状况比前几年下降幅度更大（2017-2019），社区满意度也有所提高，展示了这一流行病对人们对家庭、社区和邻里的满意度的潜在一线希望。此外，与社会情绪选择理论一致，心理健康、社区满意度和生活满意度的变化与年龄相关，因此老年人普遍报告有害的心理变化较少，而有益的心理变化较多。我们进一步发现，在大流行年份，年龄与心理健康和社区满意度与生活满意度之间的关联更强。总体而言，我们的研究结果说明了大流行期间公共生活对生活满意度的重要性以及这一过程中与年龄相关的差异，揭示了需要设计定制支持来解决大流行对公众福祉影响的不平等问题。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，