“…Our first hypothesis predicted that negative affect would be considerably higher during the lockdowns than before the pandemic, while positive affect would be considerably lower. On the issue of gender, and in line with previous studies ( Congard, Boudoukha, et al, 2022 ; Congard, Le Vigouroux, et al, 2022 ; Fernández-Abascal & Martín-Díaz, 2021 ; Gullo et al, 2020 ; Park et al, 2021 ; Smith et al, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2020 ), we expected women to be more negatively affected by this situation than men, reporting less positive affect and more negative affect than their male counterparts.…”