Satisfaction of scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

Raabe, Isabel J.; Ehlert, Alexander; Johann, David; Rauhut, Heiko

doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00618-4

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“…This reduction, moreover, concentrates in adults with children living at home. Raabe and colleagues' survey of scientists in three European countries coheres with our findings in that they report improved wellbeing immediately after the COVID-19 lockdown [13]. Similarly, Mari and colleagues find results that mirror ours across residential patterns, although they are limited to studying Italians during lockdown [11].…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Further, we re-interviewed the sample in July 2020 when COVID-19 precautions were substantially lessened compared to the lockdown period in March. Given that previous research on some subgroups finds improved wellbeing following COVID-19 [13], we specified all tests as two-tailed. We, moreover, explored the relation between the lockdown and mental wellbeing by family structure, given that state-imposed limitations on social activity may affect persons living alone differently than for persons living with family members as suggested by prior research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Risk of Stress/Depression and Functional Impairment in Denmark Immediately Following a COVID-19 Shutdown

Andersen

Fallesen

Bruckner

2020

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Background This study aimed to investigate the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown (March-April 2020) on risk for stress/depression and functional impairment in a representative sample of adult individuals in Denmark, and whether the impact of lockdown was heterogeneous across living situation. Methods: Using a representative, randomly drawn sample from the complete Danish adult population interviewed in March 2 to April 13, 2020 (n=2,836) and again in July 2020 (n=1,526, 54% retention rate), we study how the imposed lockdown announced March 11 following the onset of the first Danish wave of COVID-19 infections affected mental wellbeing. We use the World Health Organization Five Well-being Index (WHO-5) and the Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS) to capture wellbeing and functioning. Using covariate adjusted ordinary least squares linear probability models and exploiting variation in the timing of responses occurring just before and just after the introduction of lockdown, we compare respondents before lockdown to respondents that answered during lockdown, as well to answers in re-interviews in July. Results: We find reduced depressive symptoms among adults immediately after the shutdown, concentrated in adults with children living at home. Measures of functional impairment also decline immediately after the March shutdown among adults with children living at home. Impairment intensified for the entire sample between March and July, but depressive symptoms remained at lower rate in July. Conclusions: Findings in Denmark indicate that living with children at home may have, in the short term, buffered the potential mental health sequelae of the COVID-19 shutdown.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk of Stress/Depression and Functional Impairment in Denmark Immediately Following a COVID-19 Shutdown

Andersen

Fallesen

Bruckner

2020

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“…Liberals who thought about a lockdown reported increased government and CDC trust. These results suggest that despite the positive effects of lockdowns (CDC, 2022;Raabe et al, 2020), thinking about mandates has polarizing effects. Low levels of trust could impede government efficacy (Polimédio, 2022), and should be considered when proposing regulations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Locked down and divided: political orientation moderates the effects of considering a future lockdown

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To slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, some U.S. State governments restricted public activity by implementing lockdowns. The possibility remains that lockdowns may need to be implemented in the future, whether to combat novel strains of COVID-19 or entirely different viruses. The present experiment tested whether thinking about a future lockdown affects people’s attitudes toward institutions. We found that conservative participants who thought about a future lockdown reported less intention to adhere to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and less trust in the government compared to conservative participants in a control condition. We also found that liberal participants who thought about a future lockdown reported more trust in the government and the CDC, compared to liberal participants in a control condition. These findings suggest that merely considering a future lockdown affects people’s intended adherence and institutional trust. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-04208-2.

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“…Finally, econometric models find a nuanced pictures of determinants of location choices. To the best of our knowledge, no other studies which document the effects of Covid-19 on academics' location choice as literature have mostly focused on the massive working from home phenomenon caused the pandemic (e.g., Raabe et al, 2020). This paper, instead, finds that academics has continued to conduct their research in different locations even during the pandemic and that the spatial features of the university campuses shape their choice to work on campus, above and behind work-related and life-related factors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Agglomeration In the Flexible Working Era: The Micro-location Choices of Co-working Offices

Wu¹,

Lavoratori²,

Zhang³

2022

28th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference

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The Covid-19 pandemic has forced most workers to work from home (WFH). At a first glance, this seems not a big change for academics, who, even in normal time, are used to performing their research activities autonomously and to balancing on-campus and off-campus locations. Instead, exactly for their flexible habits it is interesting to study where academics have worked during the Covid-19 pandemic and which factors relate to their location choices. This paper addresses these issues by relying on survey data from a sample of 7,865 Italian tenured academics. First, cluster analysis unveils four main location choices of Italian academics during the Covid-19 pandemic depending on the frequency of access to home, university or other spaces, namely Home-centric, University-centric, Between home and university and Multi-located. Second, multinomial probit models reveal a nuanced picture of the factors associated to the belonging to each cluster. Decisions over location choice depend, mostly, on work-related factors (i.e., discipline); then on spacerelated factors (i.e., satisfaction towards campus workspace characteristics and the need of a laboratory); finally, on, life-related factors (i.e., living with school children or a partner) and other factors (i.e., commuting times and gender). However, each of the four location patterns depend on different determinants. The results offer university and practice-wide implications anticipating future changes in how work in academia is spatially organized.

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Satisfaction of scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

Cited by 10 publications

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Risk of Stress/Depression and Functional Impairment in Denmark Immediately Following a COVID-19 Shutdown

Risk of Stress/Depression and Functional Impairment in Denmark Immediately Following a COVID-19 Shutdown

Locked down and divided: political orientation moderates the effects of considering a future lockdown

Agglomeration In the Flexible Working Era: The Micro-location Choices of Co-working Offices

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