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Isolation and well-being in the time of lockdown
- Source :
- Region: the journal of ERSA, REGION, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- AUT, 2021.
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Abstract
- In response to the Covid‑19 health crisis, the French government has imposed various measures, referred to as social-distancing measures, including a lockdown with the primary objective of reducing face-to-face interactions between people in order to limit the spread of the virus. This paper seeks to determine if the social-distancing measures and lockdown lead to social isolation for certain people and have an impact on French people’s well-being. First, it reveals that the feelings of social isolation have substantially increased in France during this lockdown. Second, it explores the factors that help to explain these changes by developing a predictive model and reveals that living alone, being a woman, being young are factors that explain this increase in felling of social isolation. Third, the estimation of the effects of changes in feelings of social isolation on changes in the reported level of well-being of French respondents during lockdown shows that people who reported feeling more socially isolated than others has the lowest levels of well-being among the French population; and that the increase in people’s feelings of social isolation during lockdown is a factor that has a negative impact on their level of well-being.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Science (General)
social isolation
media_common.quotation_subject
Geography, Planning and Development
Population
Frankreich
soziale Isolation
Wohlbefinden
Epidemie
epidemic
Q1-390
ddc:150
well-being
medicine
health consequences
Psychology
Social isolation
education
psychological stress
General Psychology
media_common
Estimation
H1-99
Government
education.field_of_study
Allgemeine Psychologie
gesundheitliche Folgen
Social sciences (General)
Feeling
Psychologie
Well-being
Isolation (psychology)
France
medicine.symptom
Social psychology
psychische Belastung
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Region: the journal of ERSA, REGION, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2021)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ade33c3621995565815cdb14e965cd92