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Perceived characteristics of life situations during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

E. Bityutskaya ,
A. Kheruvimova ,
T. Mirzamedova ,
A. Skvortsova ,
A. Spitsyna  and
N. Lebedeva
E. Bityutskaya
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Kheruvimova
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
T. Mirzamedova
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Skvortsova
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
A. Spitsyna
Affiliation:
Faculty Of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
N. Lebedeva*
Affiliation:
Diagnostics Department, Moscow Metropolitan Governance University, Moscow, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic situation is seen as an intense stressor. However, people process it differently.

Objectives

This study aims to examine the connection between life situation perception and the desirability of life changes the pandemic caused.

Methods

Adult participants (n=144; 01.04.2020–01.06.2020) answered open-ended questions about their current life situation experience and rated the desirability of life changes on a 10-point scale (see table 1). Content analysis and Pearson’s χ2 criterion were used.

Table 1
Changes’ desirability
-5-4-3-2-1+1+2+3+4+5
Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4
Rejecting changesAccepting changes

Results

We annotated the participants’ responses. The content of life situations was categorized into restrictions, losses, difficulties (negative responses), acquisitions (positive responses), neutral, and ambivalent responses. Life goals were categorized into an approach to the desired outcome, avoidance of hassles, preservation of status quo, self-development, and return to prepandemic life. χ2 analysis confirms the differences between content-types and goal-types categories in 4 groups of participants: χ2(15)=43.62; p=0.002 (content); χ2(12)=27.23; p=0.01 (goals). The desirability of changes was positively linked with the ambivalent responses and responses containing self-development goals or approach-to-desired-outcome goals; and was negatively linked with the responses containing restriction-type situations and avoidance goals. Only the respondents accepting changes reported acquisitions; only the respondents rejecting changes reported a return to prepandemic life goals.

Conclusions

Perceived characteristics of life situations are closely connected with the desirability of life changes during the pandemic. Funding: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-013-00838.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

goalCOVID-19perceived life situationchange
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S673
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