Gender as a moderator between Present-Hedonistic time perspective and depressive symptoms or stress during COVID-19 lock-down

Bodecka, Marta; Nowakowska, Iwona; Zajenkowska, Anna; Rajchert, Joanna; Kaźmierczak, Izabela; Jelonkiewicz, Irena

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110395

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“…Therefore, this time perspective might be hypothesized to play a role in how people experienced distress during the social distancing period. It is worth noting that the result in a study by Bodecka et al ( 2021 ) was obtained in a similar period to the current study. The present study adds to this finding, suggesting that people who donated items to others were also higher on the Present-Hedonistic time perspective.…”

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“…The present study was conducted in Poland, which was, according to an international study, a country in which depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms were relatively high in the general population (Wang et al, 2021 ). The Present-Hedonistic time perspective was proven to predict a higher level of depressive symptoms in men and a lower level of depressive symptoms in women during the first lock-down in spring 2020 (Bodecka et al, 2021 ). Therefore, this time perspective might be hypothesized to play a role in how people experienced distress during the social distancing period.…”

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Age, frequency of volunteering, and Present-Hedonistic time perspective predict donating items to people in need, but not money to combat COVID-19 during lock-down

Nowakowska

2021

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Restrictions due to COVID-19 necessitated staying at home, but in some cases, encouraged charitable behavior, e.g., donating items to people in need (e.g., clothes, food), or money to support combatting COVID-19. Drawing on the previous findings regarding helping during disastrous situations and roles of time perspective in helping behaviors, the study tested the predictive value of age, gender, previous volunteering, altruistic social value orientation, and time perspectives of donating items to people in need or money to combat COVID-19. The study is pioneering in terms of including time perspectives as individual differences which might contribute to making donations during COVID-19 circumstances. The study was questionnaire-based and conducted online in the eighth week of social distancing in Poland. 150 young adults (age 18–35) took part in the study. Results of multivariable logistic regression analysis indicated that age, frequency of volunteering before the epidemic, and Present-Hedonistic time perspective predict donating items to people in need, but none of the tested variables predicted donating money to combat COVID-19. The findings suggest that charitable behavior, especially in the context of extraordinary social situations, needs to be treated as a multifaceted phenomenon. The study indicates that a Present-Hedonistic time perspective would be a promising individual difference to test in future studies on prosociality.

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Age, frequency of volunteering, and Present-Hedonistic time perspective predict donating items to people in need, but not money to combat COVID-19 during lock-down

Nowakowska

2021

Curr Psychol

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“…Indeed, there is nascent research associating emotional wellbeing during COVID-19 with temporal perspectives. Bodecka et al [16] show that a chronic tendency to "seize the moment" reduces negative emotions in women, while Dennis, Ogden and Hepper [17] find that listing gratitude (which is presumed to elicit a present focus) enhances positive affective states. That literature raises the possibility that temporal perspective influences wellbeing during COVID-19, but it does not pit temporal perspectives against each other, nor does it address coping with threats to self-authenticity.…”

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The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping

2021

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Social role disruption is a state involving upheaval of social identities, routines and responsibilities. Such disruption is presently occurring at a global scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which poses a threat not only to health and security but also to the social roles that underlie people’s daily lives. Our collective response to combat the virus entails, for example, parents homeschooling children, friends socializing online, and employees working from home. While these collective efforts serve the greater good, people’s social roles now lack continuity from what was authentic to the roles before the pandemic began. This, we argue, takes a psychological toll. Individuals feel inauthentic, or alienated and out-of-touch from their “true” selves, to the extent their social roles undergo change. As evidence, we report survey (Studies 1 & 4) and experimental (Studies 2 & 3) evidence that COVID-19-related role changes indeed increase inauthenticity. This effect occurs independent of (a) how positively/negatively people feel about COVID-19 (Study 2) and (b) how positively/negatively people feel about the role change itself (Studies 3 & 4). Moreover, we identify two moderators of this effect. First, this effect occurs when (and ostensibly because) the social roles undergoing change are central to an individual’s sense of self (Study 2). Second, this effect depends on an individual’s temporal perspective. People can safeguard their self-authenticity in the face of changing social roles if they stay focused on the here-and-now (the present and immediate future), rather than focusing on the past (pre-COVID-19) or future (post-COVID-19) (Studies 3 & 4). This advantage for present-focused coping is observed in both the U.S.A. (Study 3) and Hong Kong (Study 4). We suggest that the reason people feel more authentically themselves when they maintain a present focus is because doing so makes the discontinuity of their social roles less salient.

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“…For example, one study that used a foodspecific time-perspective questionnaire found that reported healthy eating was correlated with more concern about future consequences (Dassen et al, 2015). While there has been some work exploring how a present-hedonistic time perspective interacts with pandemic-induced stress (Bodecka et al, 2021), little work has been conducted on consideration of future consequences. We address this gap with the present study.…”

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The role of Perceived Risk, Stress, and Future Orientation on Mask Wearing During COVID-19

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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing protective facial masks has become a divisive issue, yet little is known about what drives differences in mask wearing across individuals. We surveyed 711 people around the world, asking about mask wearing and several other variables. We found that people who reported greater perceived risk of infection, stress, and those with greater consideration of future consequences reported wearing masks more often during in-person interactions. Participants who knew more people who had been infected and those who lived in postal codes with higher prevalence of COVID-19 perceived their risk of infection to be higher and reported greater pandemic-related stress. Perceived risk of infection and pandemic-related stress were higher overall in women and those reporting greater future-orientedness. Finally, participants who were more politically conservative reported lower perceived risk of becoming infected and lower stress than those who were more liberal, but there was no reliable difference in mask wearing between these groups. This is the first of four papers investigating mask wearing using this data set; the forthcoming papers will focus on predicting attitudes and motivations about mask wearing, the situations in which people do and do not report wearing masks, and the extent to which people report mask wearing in their communities. This is part of a broader study to understand the psychological and social influences on mask wearing and, more broadly, the impacts of the pandemic on human behavior and social interactions.

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Gender as a moderator between Present-Hedonistic time perspective and depressive symptoms or stress during COVID-19 lock-down

Cited by 38 publications

References 47 publications

Age, frequency of volunteering, and Present-Hedonistic time perspective predict donating items to people in need, but not money to combat COVID-19 during lock-down

Age, frequency of volunteering, and Present-Hedonistic time perspective predict donating items to people in need, but not money to combat COVID-19 during lock-down

The “Self” under COVID-19: Social role disruptions, self-authenticity and present-focused coping

The role of Perceived Risk, Stress, and Future Orientation on Mask Wearing During COVID-19

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