Cargando…

Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland

COVID-19 caused a global change in the lifestyles of people around the world. It provided a unique opportunity to examine how external circumstances impact two crucial aspects of functioning relating to "who I am" (values) and "how I feel" (well-being). Participants (N = 215) rep...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Bojanowska, Agnieszka, Kaczmarek, Łukasz D., Koscielniak, Maciej, Urbańska, Beata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34525095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255491
_version_ 1783753111087611904
author Bojanowska, Agnieszka
Kaczmarek, Łukasz D.
Koscielniak, Maciej
Urbańska, Beata
author_facet Bojanowska, Agnieszka
Kaczmarek, Łukasz D.
Koscielniak, Maciej
Urbańska, Beata
author_sort Bojanowska, Agnieszka
collection PubMed
description COVID-19 caused a global change in the lifestyles of people around the world. It provided a unique opportunity to examine how external circumstances impact two crucial aspects of functioning relating to "who I am" (values) and "how I feel" (well-being). Participants (N = 215) reported their values and subjective and eudaimonic well-being, nine months before the first lockdown in Poland and two weeks and four weeks into the first lockdown. We observed increased valuing of self-direction, security, conformity, humility, caring, and universalism and a decrease in valuing hedonism. Individuals experienced decreased subjective and eudaimonic well-being, with women responding with stronger negative affect intensity relative to men. Finally, we identified that individuals who were more open to change before the COVID-19 pandemic responded with higher eudaimonic well-being two weeks into lockdown relative to their less open to change peers. This study is unique in that it shows that well-being and individually held values are flexible and adaptive systems that react to external circumstances such as global critical events.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8443041
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Public Library of Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-84430412021-09-16 Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland Bojanowska, Agnieszka Kaczmarek, Łukasz D. Koscielniak, Maciej Urbańska, Beata PLoS One Research Article COVID-19 caused a global change in the lifestyles of people around the world. It provided a unique opportunity to examine how external circumstances impact two crucial aspects of functioning relating to "who I am" (values) and "how I feel" (well-being). Participants (N = 215) reported their values and subjective and eudaimonic well-being, nine months before the first lockdown in Poland and two weeks and four weeks into the first lockdown. We observed increased valuing of self-direction, security, conformity, humility, caring, and universalism and a decrease in valuing hedonism. Individuals experienced decreased subjective and eudaimonic well-being, with women responding with stronger negative affect intensity relative to men. Finally, we identified that individuals who were more open to change before the COVID-19 pandemic responded with higher eudaimonic well-being two weeks into lockdown relative to their less open to change peers. This study is unique in that it shows that well-being and individually held values are flexible and adaptive systems that react to external circumstances such as global critical events. Public Library of Science 2021-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8443041/ /pubmed/34525095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255491 Text en © 2021 Bojanowska et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Bojanowska, Agnieszka
Kaczmarek, Łukasz D.
Koscielniak, Maciej
Urbańska, Beata
Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
title Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
title_full Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
title_fullStr Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
title_full_unstemmed Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
title_short Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland
title_sort changes in values and well-being amidst the covid-19 pandemic in poland
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34525095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255491
work_keys_str_mv AT bojanowskaagnieszka changesinvaluesandwellbeingamidstthecovid19pandemicinpoland
AT kaczmarekłukaszd changesinvaluesandwellbeingamidstthecovid19pandemicinpoland
AT koscielniakmaciej changesinvaluesandwellbeingamidstthecovid19pandemicinpoland
AT urbanskabeata changesinvaluesandwellbeingamidstthecovid19pandemicinpoland