Psychosocial Predictors and Mental-Health Outcomes in UK Adults: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Survey (10–23 August 2024)

This dataset contains fully anonymised, two-wave survey data from <b>273 adult, native-English UK residents</b> recruited via the Prolific platform.<b>Time-frame and design:</b> Baseline measures were obtained between <b>10 and 16 August 2024</b> (Time 1). The same participants completed follow-up measures exactly one week later, between <b>17 and 23 August 2024</b> (Time 2). All 273 respondents took part in both waves, yielding a complete longitudinal panel.<b>Variables collected at Time 1 (baseline):</b>Demographics – age, gender, ethnicity, current employment status.Childhood trauma – total score and five sub-types.Psychosocial resources and vulnerabilities – perceived social support, perceived loneliness, social-network size, previous suicide-related history, subjective socioeconomic status, trait worry, and rumination.<b>Variables collected at Time 2 (one-week follow-up)</b><b>(reporting period: previous week)</b><b>:</b>Mental-health outcomes – depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms.Defeat–entrapment outcomes – perceived defeat and entrapment.Stress-related outcomes – perceived stress and stress appraisal.Raw item scores and all derived scale totals are provided. A comprehensive codebook—covering variable names, abbreviations, response formats, and scoring procedures—appears in <b>Worksheet 2</b> of the file.The current datasets was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the School of Psychology, University of Leeds (REC reference: PSCETHS-1110), and the main study hypotheses were preregistered at AsPredicted.org (#182080).