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Saarbrücken (dpa / lrs) - According to a study, people's well-being and mental health are increasingly suffering from the consequences of the lockdown - more than in the summer months.
This is the interim result of researchers from Saarland University, who have been studying the psychological and social effects of the pandemic for a year.
1500 women and men regularly take part in the surveys for the study entitled “Everything different?”.
So far there are over 7 million individual data points.
"Life satisfaction has decreased significantly, worries, stress and depression have risen," said research group leader Dorota Reis of the German Press Agency in Saarbrücken.
This was also the case in the spring, although at that time an improvement occurred quickly after the easing.
“We don't yet know whether that will be the case this time,” says the scientist.
The company's assessment has changed "drastically," said Reis.
While the participants initially reported that society was moving closer together, they now assessed the behavior as “rather selfish and drifting apart”.
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The study is about what concerns people in this crisis situation, how they cope with their everyday lives and how relationships with others are changing.
The results should help to better understand what changes when private life is turned upside down by a global event.
In the next few months, among other things, it will be investigated whether the pandemic has different effects on different groups of people and how mood and personality develop in the long term before and after a decisive life event.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210213-99-423106 / 2
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Study "Everything different?"
Applied statistical modeling