Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of Extraversion
Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19?: The Role of Extraversion
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DOI：
10.1525/collabra.365
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发表时间：
2020-07-24
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Lyubomirsky, Sonja
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作者：
Folk, Dunigan;Okabe-Miyamoto, Karynna;Lyubomirsky, Sonja
在两项预先注册的研究中，我们追踪了 COVID-19 大流行期间个人社交联系感受的变化。这两项研究都利用了在 COVID-19 大流行之前获得的社会联系和福祉的衡量标准，在大流行的颠覆性影响中再次招募了相同的参与者。研究 1 包括来自加拿大大学的本科生样本 (N = 467)，研究 2 包括主要来自美国和英国的社区成年人 (N = 336)。我们的研究结果表明，面对 COVID-19 大流行造成的社交生活最初重塑，人们的社交联系感受变化相对较小。探索性分析表明，相对外向的个体的社交联系表现出更大的下降。然而，在控制了大流行之前的社会联系水平（如预先登记的）后，外向性的负面影响逆转（研究 1）或消失（研究 2）。
In two pre-registered studies, we tracked changes in individuals' feelings of social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both studies capitalized on measures of social connection and well-being obtained prior to the COVID-19 pandemic by recruiting the same participants again in the midst of the pandemic's upending effects. Study 1 included a sample of undergraduates from a Canadian university (N = 467), and Study 2 included community adults primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom (N = 336). Our results suggest that people experienced relatively little change in feelings of social connection in the face of the initial reshaping of their social lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploratory analyses suggested that relatively extraverted individuals exhibited larger declines in social connection. However, after controlling for levels of social connection prior to the pandemic (as pre-registered), the negative effect of extraversion reversed (Study 1) or disappeared (Study 2).