Subjective well-being during the 2020-21 global coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from high frequency time series data.
Publication Date
2022Journal Title
PLoS One
ISSN
1932-6203
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Volume
17
Issue
2
Language
en
Type
Article
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Foa, R. S., Fabian, M., & Gilbert, S. (2022). Subjective well-being during the 2020-21 global coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from high frequency time series data.. PLoS One, 17 (2) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263570
Abstract
We investigate how subjective well-being varied over the course of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with a special attention to periods of lockdown. We use weekly data from YouGov's Great Britain Mood Tracker Poll, and daily reports from Google Trends, that cover the entire period from six months before until eighteen months after the global spread of COVID-19. Descriptive trends and time-series models suggest that negative mood associated with the imposition of lockdowns returned to baseline within 1-3 weeks of lockdown implementation, whereas pandemic intensity, measured by the rate of fatalities from COVID-19 infection, was persistently associated with depressed affect. The results support the hypothesis that country-specific pandemic severity was the major contributor to increases in negative affect observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that lockdowns likely ameliorated rather than exacerbated this effect.
Keywords
Research Article, Medicine and health sciences, Biology and life sciences, Social sciences, Research and analysis methods, People and places
Identifiers
pone-d-21-09713
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263570
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334121
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