Disrupting times in the wake of the pandemic: Dispositional time attitudes, time perception and temporal focus

Loose, Tianna

doi:10.1177/0961463x211027420

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“…Time judgment is therefore a good -and easy-to-measure -indicator of psychological health. However, time judgment assessed in our study was only one component of time judgment which encompasses different subjective time experiences, like interval duration estimation or the perceived speed of time passage as that examined in our studies (see Loose et al, 2021). In sum, our studies on this specific component of time judgment have shown that, as of the first lockdown, individuals have experienced no further variation in the speed of the passage of time, which has always been found to have stagnated or to be flowing slowly.…”

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The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France

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The home confinement imposed on people to fight the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the flow of time by disrupting daily life, making them feel that time was passing slowly. The aim of this longitudinal study was to evaluate the evolution over time of this subjective experience of time and its significant predictors (boredom, decreased happiness, life rhythm, and sleep quality). Twso samples of French participants were followed up: the first for several weeks during the first lockdown (April 2020) and then 1year later (April 2021; Study 1), and the second during the first lockdown (April 2020) and then 6months (November 2020) and 1year later (April 2021; Study 2). Our study shows that the French participants have the feeling that time has passed slowly since the beginning of the first lockdown and that it has not resumed its normal course. This is explained by a persistent feeling of boredom characteristic of a depressive state that has taken hold in the population. The findings therefore suggest that the repeated contexts of confinement did not contribute to re-establishing a normal perception of time, to which a subjective acceleration of time would have testified.

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The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France

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“…Complementing the European studies, a subjective expansion of time was related to negative emotions, such as loneliness. A study in Uruguay among university students [ 9 ] assessed different measures, including the passage of time (e.g., “My days pass more slowly, time extends.” and “My days pass more quickly, time flies.”). They reported similar results: an association of psychological distress due to COVID-19 restrictions with a felt slower passage of time, a blurred sense of time (not knowing what time or day it was), and more boredom.…”

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The subjective experience of time during the pandemic in Germany: The big slowdown

2022

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Several COVID-19 studies on the felt passage of time have been conducted due to the strong feeling of time distortion many people have experienced during the pandemic. Overall, a relative decelaration of time passage was generally associated with negative affect and social isolation; a relative acceleration was associated with an increase in routine in daily life. There is some variability in results depending on the country of study and COVID-19 restrictions introduced, participants’ demographics, and questionnaire items applied. Here we present a study conducted in May 2021 in Germany including n = 500 participants to assess time perception, emotional reactions, and attitudes towards the countermeasures. The passage of time judgments (POTJ) for the preceding 12 months during the pandemic were compared to data addressing the same question posed in previous studies conducted before the outbreak of COVID-19. The previous year was rated as having passed relatively slower during the pandemic compared to the ratings from before the pandemic. The duration judgments (DJ) of the 14 months since the start of the pandemic showed a bimodal distribution with both relatively shorter and relatively longer DJs. Higher levels of several negative emotions, as well as less social satisfaction, were associated with prolonged DJs and partially slower POTJs. Fear for health was not linked with the subjective experience of time, but exploratory analyses suggested that higher levels of fear were linked to more positive evaluations and approval of the governmental countermeasures. Those who reported higher levels of negative, agitated-aggressive emotions showed lower levels of consent with these measures.

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“…Research conducted in Europe and South America suggests that a commonly reported consequence of life during covid-19 is distortion to the passage of time [ 3 – 12 ]. Studies conducted in the UK [ 3 , 4 ], France [ 5 , 6 ], Italy [ 7 , 8 ], Uruguay [ 9 ] and Argentina [ 10 ], in which people were asked to compare speed at which time was passing during the pandemic to before the pandemic, have reported widespread and significant distortion to the passage of time during the covid-19 pandemic in comparison to prior to the covid-19 pandemic. Distortions are not limited to any particular age group or gender [ 3 – 8 ].…”

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The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic

Alatrany¹,

Ogden

Falaiyah

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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The covid-19 global pandemic has influenced the day-to-day lives of people across the world. One consequence of this has been significant distortion to the subjective speed at which people feel like time is passing. To date, temporal distortions during covid-19 have mainly been studied in Europe. The current study therefore sought to explore experiences of the passage of time in Iraq. An online questionnaire was used to explore the passage of time during the day, week and the 11 months since the first period of covid-19 restrictions were imposed in Iraq. The questionnaire also measured affective and demographic factors, and task-load. The results showed that distortions to the passage of time were widespread in Iraq. Participants consistently reported a slowing of the passage of time for the day and the week during the pandemic in comparison to normal (i.e. before the pandemic). Participants also reported that it felt like longer than 11-months since the first lockdown began. The passage of time during the day and week were not predicted by any demographic, affective or task-load measures taken in the study. The perceived length of time since the first lockdown was however predicted by stress and change of life due to covid, with greater stress and greater change of life being associated with greater subjective lengthening of the pandemic. The findings indicate that whilst distortions to the passage of time during covid-19 appear to be a global phenomenon, the factors which predict temporal experience during the pandemic differ between countries and cultures.

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Disrupting times in the wake of the pandemic: Dispositional time attitudes, time perception and temporal focus

Cited by 33 publications

References 49 publications

The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France

The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France

The subjective experience of time during the pandemic in Germany: The big slowdown

The passage of time in Iraq during the covid-19 pandemic

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