Coping in Isolation: Predictors of Individual and Household Risks and Resilience Against the COVID-19 Pandemic

Verger, Nicolas B.; Urbanowicz, Agata Maria; Shankland, Rébecca; McAloney‐Kocaman, Kareena

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3596094

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has been stressful for individuals and families (Calarco, Anderson, Meanwell, & Knopf, 2020) whom as a unit must cope with pandemic-related stress both individually and together (Verger, Urbanowicz, Shankland, & McAloney-Kocaman, 2021). Coping refers to “thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are appraised as stressful” (Folkman & Moskowitz, 2004, p. 745).…”

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Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic was stressful for everyone, particularly for families who had to supervise and support children, facilitate remote schooling, and manage work and home life. We consider how families coped with pandemic-related stress using the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Combining a family coping framework with theorizing about media as a coping tool, this interview study of 27 families (33 parents and 37 children) found that parents and children individual coped with pandemic-related stress with media. Parents engaged in protective buffering of their children with media, taking on individual responsibility to cope with a collective problem. Families engaged in communal coping, whereby media helped the family cope with a collective problem, taking on shared ownership and responsibility. We provide evidence for video games as coping tools, but with the novel consideration of family coping with media.

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Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…1 Peak interest in Google searches for virtual cultural activities in the US during COVID-19 by date: June 2019-June 2020. Source: Google (2020) young children, especially during adverse childhood experiences such as the recent quarantines and lockdowns (Verger et al 2020).…”

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Arts and crafts as an educational strategy and coping mechanism for Republic of Korea and United States parents during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing stay-at-home orders have shifted family lives worldwide. Government regulations about social distancing and isolation have resulted in parents/carers and children spending most of their time together in private spaces. During the northern hemisphere spring 2020 semester, most childcare and school systems closed and parents had to dramatically modify their balance between work and home life. Using data from consumer reports, online parenting forums and blog posts, and Google Trends, the authors of this article explored how some parents have shifted towards cultural and creative enrichment as a resource to occupy their children during governmental stay-at-home directives in both the United States and the Republic of Korea. The authors found that arts and crafts and educational toy sales have increased, parents are sharing advice and resources for at-home creative activities, and arts and cultural institutions have expanded their free online content. Finally, this article discusses whether the short-term stressors from COVID-19 might lead to long-term changes in parenting and sustained interest in these resources. The authors’ findings provide additional support for the importance of arts and humanities in the educational experience of children.

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“…There have been calls for research on the psychological impact of the (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic (e.g., Verger et al, 2020). This is one of the few studies examining lockdown in different regions.…”

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Are people experiencing the ‘pains of imprisonment’ during the Covid-19 lockdown?

Dhami¹,

Weiss‐Cohen²,

Ayton³

2020

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Background: By the end of March 2020, more than a fifth of the world’s population was in various degrees of ‘lockdown’ in order to slow the spread of Covid-19. This enforced confinement led some to liken lockdown to imprisonment. We directly compared individual’s experiences of lockdown with prisoners’ experiences of imprisonment in order to determine whether psychological parallels can be drawn between these two forms of confinement.Method: Online surveys of adults in lockdown in the UK (N = 300) and California (N = 450) were conducted four and five weeks into lockdown in each region, respectively. The UK data was then compared to Souza and Dhami’s (2010) sample of 267 medium security prisoners in England, and the Californian data was compared to Dhami et al.’s (2007) sample of 307 medium security Federal prisoners in California. We measured the effects of Group (Lockdown v. Prison) on five categories of dependent variables (i.e., activity, social contact, thoughts, feelings, and rule-breaking), controlling for demographic differences between the groups.Results: In both regions, people in lockdown thought significantly less often about missing their freedom, as well as missing their family and friends living elsewhere than did first-time prisoners. However, people in lockdown in both regions were also significantly less engaged in a range of daily activities than were first-time prisoners. Additionally, in both regions, people in lockdown reported feeling more hopeless than first-time prisoners.Conclusions: Although Governments introducing lockdown policies do not intend to punish their citizens as courts do when sending convicted offenders to prison, such policies can have unintended adverse consequences. Psychological parallels can be drawn between the two forms of confinement, and ordinary citizens in lockdown have, to some extent, sensed the ‘pains of imprisonment.’

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Coping in Isolation: Predictors of Individual and Household Risks and Resilience Against the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 11 publications

References 57 publications

Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Families Playing Animal Crossing Together: Coping With Video Games During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Arts and crafts as an educational strategy and coping mechanism for Republic of Korea and United States parents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Are people experiencing the ‘pains of imprisonment’ during the Covid-19 lockdown?

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