'What I thought was so important isn’t really that important': international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

Autor: M.A. Fathima, Ralitsa Todorova, Karen Morgan, Mingjun Xie, Claire Dudley, Silvia Caterina Maria Tomaino, Hemali Patel, Michaela Kaneva, Asya Zlatarska, Chloé Michoud, Razan Hammoud, Elitsa Dimitrova, Dhanya Pillai, Desiree Baolian Qin, Milu Maria Anto, Irina Todorova, Tatyana Kotzeva, Liji John, Sabrina Shao, Femke Hilverda, Sam Xuan Ning, K. Anu Sankar, Liesemarie Albers, Jeevanisha Suresh, Qi Huang, Sanjida Khan, Yulia Panayotova, Nicole Aronson, Manuela Polidoro Lima, Maria del Rio Carral, Efrat Neter, Julia Mohr, Adriana Baban, Sabrina Cipolletta, Christel Salewski, Manja Vollmann, Zlatina Kostova, Mariana T. Guzzardo, Elena Simona Nastase, Darlina Hani Fadil Azim, Yael Benyamini, David Winter, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah
Přispěvatelé: Socio-Medical Sciences (SMS), Science and Society, Clinical Psychology
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
article-version (VoR) Version of Record
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 830-857 (2021)
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 830-857
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 9(1), 830-857. Taylor & Francis Ltd
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 9(1), 830-857. Taylor & Francis
Todorova, I, Albers, L, Aronson, N, Baban, A, Benyamini, Y, Cipolletta, S, del Rio Carral, M, Dimitrova, E, Dudley, C, Guzzardo, M, Hammoud, R, Fadil Azim, D H, Hilverda, F, Huang, Q, John, L, Kaneva, M, Khan, S, Kostova, Z, Kotzeva, T, Fathima, M A, Anto, M M, Michoud, C, Awal Miah, M A, Mohr, J, Morgan, K, Nastase, E S, Neter, E, Panayotova, Y, Patel, H, Pillai, D, Polidoro Lima, M, Qin, D B, Salewski, C, Sankar, K A, Shao, S, Suresh, J, Todorova, R, Tomaino, S C M, Vollmann, M, Winter, D, Xie, M, Xuan Ning, S & Zlatarska, A 2021, ' “What I thought was so important isn’t really that important”: international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ', Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 830-857 . https://doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2021.1981909
ISSN: 2164-2850
Popis: Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the physical and mental health of people everywhere. The aim of the study is to understand how people living in 15 countries around the globe experience an unexpected crisis which threatens their health and that of loved ones, and how they make meaning of this disruption in their narratives.Methods: Data were collected through an anonymous online survey during May–September 2020, which was during or just after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, depending on the country. The questionnaire included demographic and three open-ended questions as prompts for stories about experiences during the initial months of the pandemic. The text was analyzed through inductive thematic content analysis and quantified for full sample description, demographic and subsequently international comparisons.Results: The final qualitative dataset included stories from n = 1685 respondents. The sample was 73.6% women and 26.4% men. The mean age of participants was 39.55 years (SD = 14.71). The identified four groups of overarching themes were: The presence and absence of others; Rediscovering oneself; The meaning of daily life; Rethinking societal and environmental values. We discuss the prevalence of each theme for the sample as a whole and differences by demographic groups. The most prevalent theme referred to disruptions in interpersonal contacts, made meaningful by the increased appreciation of the value of relationships, present in (45.6%) of stories. It was more prevalent in the stories of womencompared to men (χ² = 24.88, p = .001).Conclusions: The paper provides a detailed overview of the methodology, the main themes identified inductively in the stories and differences according to select demographic variables. We identify several major ways of making meaning of the pandemic. The pandemic has impacted many aspects of people’s lives which give it meaning, no matter where they live.
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