The impact of social isolation and changes in work patterns on ongoing thought during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom
The impact of social isolation and changes in work patterns on ongoing thought during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.2102565118
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发表时间：
2021-10-05
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Smallwood, Jonathan
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作者：
Mckeown, Bronte;Poerio, Giulia L.;Smallwood, Jonathan
COVID-19 大流行导致世界各国实施封锁，改变了数十亿人的生活。例如，英国首次全国封锁限制了人们的社交和工作能力。目前的研究探讨了封锁期间社交和工作的变化如何影响日常生活中持续的思维模式。我们比较了在封锁之前和期间收集的两个独立的现实世界经验抽样群体之间思维模式的流行程度。在这两个样本中，年轻（18 至 35 岁）和老年（55 岁以上）参与者每天完成五次体验采样测量，持续 7 天。对这些数据进行降维以识别常见的“思维模式”。线性混合模型比较了 1) 封锁之前和封锁期间、2) 不同年龄组以及 3) 不同社会和活动背景下每种思维模式的流行程度。在封锁期间，当人们独处时，社交思维会减少，但在极少数可以进行社交互动的情况下，我们观察到社交思维比封锁前有更大的增加。此外，封锁与解决面向未来的问题的减少有关，但当个人投入工作时，这种思维模式又会恢复。因此，我们的研究表明，封锁导致日常生活中持续的思维模式发生重大变化，并且这些变化与封锁期间发生的日常生活变化有关。
The COVID-19 pandemic led to lockdowns in countries across the world, changing the lives of billions of people. The United Kingdom's first national lockdown, for example, restricted people's ability to socialize and work. The current study examined how changes to socializing and working during this lockdown impacted ongoing thought patterns in daily life. We compared the prevalence of thought patterns between two independent real-world, experience-sampling cohorts, collected before and during lockdown. In both samples, young (18 to 35 y) and older (55+ y) participants completed experiencesampling measures five times daily for 7 d. Dimension reduction was applied to these data to identify common "patterns of thought." Linear mixed modeling compared the prevalence of each thought pattern 1) before and during lockdown, 2) in different age groups, and 3) across different social and activity contexts. During lockdown, when people were alone, social thinking was reduced, but on the rare occasions when social interactions were possible, we observed a greater increase in social thinking than prelockdown. Furthermore, lockdown was associated with a reduction in future-directed problem solving, but this thought pattern was reinstated when individuals engaged in work. Therefore, our study suggests that the lockdown led to significant changes in ongoing thought patterns in daily life and that these changes were associated with changes to our daily routine that occurred during lockdown.