Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19()

We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender lonelin...

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Autores principales: Lepinteur, Anthony, Clark, Andrew E., Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, Piper, Alan, Schröder, Carsten, D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9617673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36339351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2022.101952
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author Lepinteur, Anthony
Clark, Andrew E.
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada
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Schröder, Carsten
D'Ambrosio, Conchita
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description We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores. Men's life satisfaction changed only little between 2017 and 2020; yet that of women fell dramatically, and sufficiently so to produce a female penalty in life satisfaction. We estimate that almost all of this female penalty is explained by the disproportionate rise in loneliness for women during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-96176732022-10-31 Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19() Lepinteur, Anthony Clark, Andrew E. Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada Piper, Alan Schröder, Carsten D'Ambrosio, Conchita J Behav Exp Econ Article We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for women. This rise is mirrored in life-satisfaction scores. Men's life satisfaction changed only little between 2017 and 2020; yet that of women fell dramatically, and sufficiently so to produce a female penalty in life satisfaction. We estimate that almost all of this female penalty is explained by the disproportionate rise in loneliness for women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-12 2022-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9617673/ /pubmed/36339351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2022.101952 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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