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The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic
The covid-19 global pandemic has influenced the day-to-day lives of people across the world. One consequence of this has been significant distortion to the subjective speed at which people feel like time is passing. To date, temporal distortions during covid-19 have mainly been studied in Europe. Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35421167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266877 |
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author | Alatrany, Saad S. J. Ogden, Ruth Falaiyah, Ashraf Muwafa ALdrraji, Hasan Ali Sayyid Alatrany, Abbas S. S. |
author_facet | Alatrany, Saad S. J. Ogden, Ruth Falaiyah, Ashraf Muwafa ALdrraji, Hasan Ali Sayyid Alatrany, Abbas S. S. |
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description | The covid-19 global pandemic has influenced the day-to-day lives of people across the world. One consequence of this has been significant distortion to the subjective speed at which people feel like time is passing. To date, temporal distortions during covid-19 have mainly been studied in Europe. The current study therefore sought to explore experiences of the passage of time in Iraq. An online questionnaire was used to explore the passage of time during the day, week and the 11 months since the first period of covid-19 restrictions were imposed in Iraq. The questionnaire also measured affective and demographic factors, and task-load. The results showed that distortions to the passage of time were widespread in Iraq. Participants consistently reported a slowing of the passage of time for the day and the week during the pandemic in comparison to normal (i.e. before the pandemic). Participants also reported that it felt like longer than 11-months since the first lockdown began. The passage of time during the day and week were not predicted by any demographic, affective or task-load measures taken in the study. The perceived length of time since the first lockdown was however predicted by stress and change of life due to covid, with greater stress and greater change of life being associated with greater subjective lengthening of the pandemic. The findings indicate that whilst distortions to the passage of time during covid-19 appear to be a global phenomenon, the factors which predict temporal experience during the pandemic differ between countries and cultures. |
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spelling | pubmed-90096062022-04-15 The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic Alatrany, Saad S. J. Ogden, Ruth Falaiyah, Ashraf Muwafa ALdrraji, Hasan Ali Sayyid Alatrany, Abbas S. S. PLoS One Research Article The covid-19 global pandemic has influenced the day-to-day lives of people across the world. One consequence of this has been significant distortion to the subjective speed at which people feel like time is passing. To date, temporal distortions during covid-19 have mainly been studied in Europe. The current study therefore sought to explore experiences of the passage of time in Iraq. An online questionnaire was used to explore the passage of time during the day, week and the 11 months since the first period of covid-19 restrictions were imposed in Iraq. The questionnaire also measured affective and demographic factors, and task-load. The results showed that distortions to the passage of time were widespread in Iraq. Participants consistently reported a slowing of the passage of time for the day and the week during the pandemic in comparison to normal (i.e. before the pandemic). Participants also reported that it felt like longer than 11-months since the first lockdown began. The passage of time during the day and week were not predicted by any demographic, affective or task-load measures taken in the study. The perceived length of time since the first lockdown was however predicted by stress and change of life due to covid, with greater stress and greater change of life being associated with greater subjective lengthening of the pandemic. The findings indicate that whilst distortions to the passage of time during covid-19 appear to be a global phenomenon, the factors which predict temporal experience during the pandemic differ between countries and cultures. Public Library of Science 2022-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9009606/ /pubmed/35421167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266877 Text en © 2022 Alatrany 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 Alatrany, Saad S. J. Ogden, Ruth Falaiyah, Ashraf Muwafa ALdrraji, Hasan Ali Sayyid Alatrany, Abbas S. S. The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
title | The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_full | The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_short | The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
title_sort | passage of time in iraq during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9009606/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35421167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266877 |
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