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Group‐specific contact and sense of connectedness during the COVID‐19 pandemic and its associations with psychological well‐being, perceived stress, and work‐life balance

Theories of social cure, sense of community, and social identity suggest that feelings of connectedness affect how we have coped with the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although people can feel connected to a variety of different groups, such as their family, friends, co‐workers, neighbours, nation, or all huma...

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Autores principales: Landmann, Helen, Rohmann, Anette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34518750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2564
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description Theories of social cure, sense of community, and social identity suggest that feelings of connectedness affect how we have coped with the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although people can feel connected to a variety of different groups, such as their family, friends, co‐workers, neighbours, nation, or all humanity, previous research has focused on connectedness to only a subset of these groups. To examine the relative importance of connectedness to and contact with specific groups for well‐being, stress, and work‐life balance during the pandemic, we conducted a longitudinal experience sampling study (N = 578) during the first 8 weeks of the Spring 2020 COVID‐19 lockdown in Germany. Feeling connected to family members most strongly predicted psychological well‐being (positively) and perceived stress (negatively) during the lockdown, followed by a sense of connectedness with friends and neighbours. Sense of connectedness to other groups did not predict well‐being, stress, or work‐life balance when controlling for the respective other groups. Hence, it not only matters whether or not a person feels connected to a group but also to which specific group he or she feels connected.
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spelling pubmed-84267152021-09-09 Group‐specific contact and sense of connectedness during the COVID‐19 pandemic and its associations with psychological well‐being, perceived stress, and work‐life balance Landmann, Helen Rohmann, Anette J Community Appl Soc Psychol Research Articles Theories of social cure, sense of community, and social identity suggest that feelings of connectedness affect how we have coped with the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although people can feel connected to a variety of different groups, such as their family, friends, co‐workers, neighbours, nation, or all humanity, previous research has focused on connectedness to only a subset of these groups. To examine the relative importance of connectedness to and contact with specific groups for well‐being, stress, and work‐life balance during the pandemic, we conducted a longitudinal experience sampling study (N = 578) during the first 8 weeks of the Spring 2020 COVID‐19 lockdown in Germany. Feeling connected to family members most strongly predicted psychological well‐being (positively) and perceived stress (negatively) during the lockdown, followed by a sense of connectedness with friends and neighbours. Sense of connectedness to other groups did not predict well‐being, stress, or work‐life balance when controlling for the respective other groups. Hence, it not only matters whether or not a person feels connected to a group but also to which specific group he or she feels connected. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-02 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8426715/ /pubmed/34518750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2564 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_short Group‐specific contact and sense of connectedness during the COVID‐19 pandemic and its associations with psychological well‐being, perceived stress, and work‐life balance
title_sort group‐specific contact and sense of connectedness during the covid‐19 pandemic and its associations with psychological well‐being, perceived stress, and work‐life balance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8426715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34518750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2564
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