Education, health behavior, and working conditions during the pandemic: evidence from a German sample

Hoenig, Kerstin; Wenz, Sebastian E.

doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1824004

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“…Other studies revealed a high use of protective behavior [7] and a rather low level of leisure time sport activities [8] during the pandemic. A certain number of studies concluded that the societal conditions surrounding COVID-19 increase gender, social, and educational inequalities [9,10]. All of these findings are in line with reviews about psychosocial impacts of quarantine measures during previous pandemics that consistently showed negative effects on mental health outcomes [11].…”

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Psychological Impact of Corona Lockdown in Germany: Changes in Need Satisfaction, Well-Being, Anxiety, and Depression

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All over the world; measures have been implemented to contain the novel Sars-CoV-2 virus since its outbreak in the beginning of 2020. These measures—among which social distancing and contact restrictions were most prominent—may have an overall effect on people’s psychological well-being. The present study seeks to examine whether lockdown measures affected people’s well-being; anxiety; depressive symptoms during the lockdown and whether these effects could be explained by reduced satisfaction of the basic psychological needs of autonomy and relatedness. N = 1086 participants of different ages and educational levels from all over Germany reported strong declines in autonomy and well-being; small declines in relatedness satisfaction; moderate increases in anxiety and depressive symptoms. These effects were stronger for people with moderate to bad subjective overall health. Latent change modeling revealed that, especially, decreases in autonomy satisfaction led to stronger decreases in well-being as well as stronger increases in anxiety and depressive symptoms; whereas decreases in relatedness had much weaker effects. Our results imply differential effects depending on individual preconditions; but also more generally that peoples’ need for autonomy was most strongly affected by the lockdown measures, which should be considered as important information in planning future lockdowns.

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confidence: 63%

Psychological Impact of Corona Lockdown in Germany: Changes in Need Satisfaction, Well-Being, Anxiety, and Depression

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Kärchner

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“…While this seems fine to get a first thorough impression, we should (and authors did) nevertheless treat findings based on such data with some caution. Future research could make use of existing panels and start collecting more representative data, which can also allow for replication and thus support more robust conclusions (Hoenig and Wenz 2020;Möhring et al 2020). In turn, some of the qualitative (small-N) studies were confronted with difficulties in terms of gaining access to particular social groups, particularly while social distancing measures were in place.…”

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“…With regard to educational inequalities, the papers in this special issue showed that there are social inequalities in home schooling efforts for high school students in Germany (Dietrich et al 2020). Moreover, education was found to be a strong predictor of COVID-19 related health behaviorphysical and social distancing, increased hygiene, and face mask wearingat least in Germany (Hoenig and Wenz 2020). Learning during the pandemic became a particular challenge for migrant children.…”

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The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

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The coronavirus pandemic, which first impacted European societies in early 2020, has created a twofold crisis by combining a health threat with economic turmoil. While the crisis has affected all European societies very significantly, its impact varies across countries, social groups, and societal domains. In an effort to provide a first overview of the effect of the coronavirus crisis, in this editorial we discuss contributions of 58 papers published as part of this special issue. These early research papers illustrate the varied impact of the pandemic on various areas of social life. The first group of studies in this special issue analyzes the effect of the pandemic on social inequalities with respect to gender, ethnic otherness, education, and work. A second stream of research focuses on the psychological consequences of the pandemic, especially with respect to wellbeing and resilience. Thirdly, the crisis is discussed on a societal level, in regard to welfare states, social policies, and approaches to crisis governance. In a fourth line of inquiry, several studies have analyzed the impact of the pandemic on social solidarity and cohesion. A fifth strand of research is devoted to examining the role of culture and lifestyles. This review ends with a discussion of areas for future research trajectories.

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“…Chung and van der Lippe 2018), more than a quarter of the working population worked at least partly from home in spring 2020 (e.g. Hoenig and Wenz 2020;Schröder et al 2020). On the one hand, working from home might come with the potential benefit of spending more time with the partner and the family and is discussed as a measure to reconcile family and work (e.g.…”

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Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel

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Families have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown, but barely any research has been conducted yet, investigating how COVID-19-related stressorsand, specifically, disruptions in established employment arrangementsaffected couples' relationship quality. To account more comprehensively for such non-monetary costs of the COVID-19 pandemic, the present study investigates whether changes in partners' employment situation during the COVID-19 crisisparticularly home-office and short-time workhad an immediate impact on the relationship satisfaction of cohabiting married and unmarried couples. To do so, we estimated fixed-effects regression models, exploiting unique data from the German Family Panel (pairfam; wave 11) and its supplementary COVID-19 web-survey. We observed a substantial proportion of respondents experiencing positive (20%) or negative (40%) changes in relationship satisfaction during the crisis. Relationship satisfaction has decreased, on average, for men and women alike, almost irrespective of whether they experienced COVID-19-related changes in their employment situation. While partners' employment situation hardly moderated the negative association between respondents' employment and relationship satisfaction, the presence of children seemed to buffer partly against a COVID-19-related decrease. Our results thus confirm previous findings suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a threat to couples' relationship quality and healthy family functioning more generally.

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Education, health behavior, and working conditions during the pandemic: evidence from a German sample

Cited by 27 publications

References 11 publications

Psychological Impact of Corona Lockdown in Germany: Changes in Need Satisfaction, Well-Being, Anxiety, and Depression

Psychological Impact of Corona Lockdown in Germany: Changes in Need Satisfaction, Well-Being, Anxiety, and Depression

The impact of the coronavirus crisis on European societies. What have we learnt and where do we go from here? – Introduction to the COVID volume

Changes in employment and relationship satisfaction in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the German family Panel

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