Deus ex Machina: The Influence of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Young Adults’ Religiosity, Temporal Values, and Time Spatialization across Cultures

Autor: Callizo-Romero, Carmen, Casasanto, Daniel, Chahboun, Sobh, Göksun, Tilbe, Gu, Yan, Kranjec, Alexander, Ouellet, Marc, Tutnjević, Slavica, Santiago, Julio
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 44, iss 44
Popis: We investigated the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s value temporal focus, religiosity, and time spatialization. Samples of young participants from eight cultures (Americans, Spaniards, Serbs, Bosniaks, Croats, Moroccans, Turks, and Chinese) collected before the pandemic (N = 497, mean age = 21.09) were matched with samples collected during the first confinement period (N = 497, mean age = 20.96). Our results in study 1 showed that during the pandemic, young adults were less religious, more future-focused, and placed the future in front to of them in a greater extent. In study 2, using the whole sample collected during the pandemic (N = 893, mean age = 21.94), we observed that the more affected the participants were by the pandemic, the greater their future focus, the lower their religiosity, and the greater their tendency to locate the future in front. These pattern of results held in most cultures.
Databáze: OpenAIRE