Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Nationwide Lockdown on Mental Health, Environmental Concern, and Prejudice Against Other Social Groups

IF 5.2 2区 心理学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and Behavior Pub Date : 2021-08-12 DOI:10.1177/00139165211036991
Bastian Schiller, Daniel Tönsing, Tobias Kleinert, Robert Böhm, M. Heinrichs
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The COVID-19 pandemic has hit humanity globally. Besides its obvious threats to our physical health and economic stability, one can only speculate about the pandemic’s and its countermeasures’ psychosocial impacts. Here, we took advantage of a sample of healthy male participants who had completed psychosocial measures on mental health, environmental concern, and prejudice against asylum-seekers just before and during the nationwide lockdown in Germany in spring 2020. A follow-up assessment of 140 participants during the lockdown provided a unique opportunity to track psychosocial changes in a prospective longitudinal study design. In comparison to before the lockdown (1) mental health worsened, (2) environmental concern increased, and (3) prejudice against asylum-seekers decreased. Our study demonstrates psychosocial “side effects” of the pandemic that bring both challenges and opportunities for our society with regard to the handling of psychological reactions to this pandemic and further global crises, including climate change and mass migration.
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COVID-19大流行全国封锁对心理健康,环境问题和对其他社会群体的偏见的影响
新冠肺炎疫情给人类带来了全球性冲击。除了对我们的身体健康和经济稳定的明显威胁外,人们只能推测大流行及其对策的社会心理影响。在这里,我们利用了健康男性参与者的样本,他们在2020年春季德国全国封锁之前和期间完成了关于心理健康、环境问题和对寻求庇护者偏见的心理社会测量。在封锁期间对140名参与者进行的随访评估为跟踪前瞻性纵向研究设计中的心理社会变化提供了独特的机会。与封锁前相比,(1)心理健康恶化,(2)环境问题增加,(3)对寻求庇护者的偏见减少。我们的研究表明,大流行的社会心理“副作用”在处理对这场大流行和进一步的全球危机(包括气候变化和大规模移民)的心理反应方面,给我们的社会带来了挑战和机遇。
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期刊介绍: Environment & Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal designed to report rigorous experimental and theoretical work focusing on the influence of the physical environment on human behavior at the individual, group, and institutional levels.
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