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COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol

Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use...

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Autores principales: Marston, Hannah R., Ivan, Loredana, Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia, Rosales Climent, Andrea, Gómez-León, Madelin, Blanche-T, Daniel, Earle, Sarah, Ko, Pei-Chun, Colas, Sophie, Bilir, Burcu, Öztürk Çalikoglu, Halime, Arslan, Hasan, Kanozia, Rubal, Kriebernegg, Ulla, Großschädl, Franziska, Reer, Felix, Quandt, Thorsten, Buttigieg, Sandra C., Silva, Paula Alexandra, Gallistl, Vera, Rohner, Rebekka
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869500
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.574811
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author Marston, Hannah R.
Ivan, Loredana
Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia
Rosales Climent, Andrea
Gómez-León, Madelin
Blanche-T, Daniel
Earle, Sarah
Ko, Pei-Chun
Colas, Sophie
Bilir, Burcu
Öztürk Çalikoglu, Halime
Arslan, Hasan
Kanozia, Rubal
Kriebernegg, Ulla
Großschädl, Franziska
Reer, Felix
Quandt, Thorsten
Buttigieg, Sandra C.
Silva, Paula Alexandra
Gallistl, Vera
Rohner, Rebekka
author_facet Marston, Hannah R.
Ivan, Loredana
Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia
Rosales Climent, Andrea
Gómez-León, Madelin
Blanche-T, Daniel
Earle, Sarah
Ko, Pei-Chun
Colas, Sophie
Bilir, Burcu
Öztürk Çalikoglu, Halime
Arslan, Hasan
Kanozia, Rubal
Kriebernegg, Ulla
Großschädl, Franziska
Reer, Felix
Quandt, Thorsten
Buttigieg, Sandra C.
Silva, Paula Alexandra
Gallistl, Vera
Rohner, Rebekka
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description Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use of digital technologies has been regarded as the alternative to maintain economic and social activities. This paper aims to describe the design and implementation of an online survey created as an urgent, international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online survey described here responds to the need of understanding the effects of the pandemic on social interactions/relations and to provide findings on the extent to which digital technology is being utilized by citizens across different communities and countries around the world. It also aims to analyze the association of use of digital technologies with psychological well-being and levels of loneliness. The data will be based on the ongoing survey (comprised of several existing and validated instruments on digital use, psychological well-being and loneliness), open for 3 months after roll out (ends September) across 11 countries (Austria, France, Germany, India, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and UK). Participants include residents aged 18 years and older in the countries and snowball sampling is employed via social media platforms. We anticipate that the findings of the survey will provide useful and much needed information on the prevalence of use and intensities of digital technologies among different age groups, gender, socioeconomic groups in a comparative perspective. Moreover, we expect that the future analysis of the data collected will show that different types of digital technologies and intensities of use are associated with psychological well-being and loneliness. To conclude, these findings from the study are expected to bring in our understanding the role of digital technologies in affecting individual social and emotional connections during a crisis.
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spelling pubmed-80227522021-04-15 COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol Marston, Hannah R. Ivan, Loredana Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia Rosales Climent, Andrea Gómez-León, Madelin Blanche-T, Daniel Earle, Sarah Ko, Pei-Chun Colas, Sophie Bilir, Burcu Öztürk Çalikoglu, Halime Arslan, Hasan Kanozia, Rubal Kriebernegg, Ulla Großschädl, Franziska Reer, Felix Quandt, Thorsten Buttigieg, Sandra C. Silva, Paula Alexandra Gallistl, Vera Rohner, Rebekka Front Sociol Sociology Drawn from the stress process model, the pandemic has imposed substantial stress to individual economic and mental well-being and has brought unprecedented disruptions to social life. In light of social distancing measures, and in particular physical distancing because of lockdown policies, the use of digital technologies has been regarded as the alternative to maintain economic and social activities. This paper aims to describe the design and implementation of an online survey created as an urgent, international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online survey described here responds to the need of understanding the effects of the pandemic on social interactions/relations and to provide findings on the extent to which digital technology is being utilized by citizens across different communities and countries around the world. It also aims to analyze the association of use of digital technologies with psychological well-being and levels of loneliness. The data will be based on the ongoing survey (comprised of several existing and validated instruments on digital use, psychological well-being and loneliness), open for 3 months after roll out (ends September) across 11 countries (Austria, France, Germany, India, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, and UK). Participants include residents aged 18 years and older in the countries and snowball sampling is employed via social media platforms. We anticipate that the findings of the survey will provide useful and much needed information on the prevalence of use and intensities of digital technologies among different age groups, gender, socioeconomic groups in a comparative perspective. Moreover, we expect that the future analysis of the data collected will show that different types of digital technologies and intensities of use are associated with psychological well-being and loneliness. To conclude, these findings from the study are expected to bring in our understanding the role of digital technologies in affecting individual social and emotional connections during a crisis. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8022752/ /pubmed/33869500 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.574811 Text en Copyright © 2020 Marston, Ivan, Fernández-Ardèvol, Rosales Climent, Gómez-León, Blanche-T, Earle, Ko, Colas, Bilir, Öztürk Çalikoglu, Arslan, Kanozia, Kriebernegg, Großschädl, Reer, Quandt, Buttigieg, Silva, Gallistl and Rohner. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Sociology
Marston, Hannah R.
Ivan, Loredana
Fernández-Ardèvol, Mireia
Rosales Climent, Andrea
Gómez-León, Madelin
Blanche-T, Daniel
Earle, Sarah
Ko, Pei-Chun
Colas, Sophie
Bilir, Burcu
Öztürk Çalikoglu, Halime
Arslan, Hasan
Kanozia, Rubal
Kriebernegg, Ulla
Großschädl, Franziska
Reer, Felix
Quandt, Thorsten
Buttigieg, Sandra C.
Silva, Paula Alexandra
Gallistl, Vera
Rohner, Rebekka
COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol
title COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol
title_full COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol
title_fullStr COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol
title_short COVID-19: Technology, Social Connections, Loneliness, and Leisure Activities: An International Study Protocol
title_sort covid-19: technology, social connections, loneliness, and leisure activities: an international study protocol
topic Sociology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869500
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.574811
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