Abstract
The societal hallmark of the Covid-19 pandemic was a set of mitigation measures such as lockdowns and curfews. The cognitive impact on the public of the resulting spatial, social and temporal constraints is still being investigated. While pandemic time has been extensively studied and mostly described as slowed down and elongated, opposite experimental patterns across national and social contexts leave open an important explanatory gap in order to understand which factor has been causally fundamental in determining the phenomenology of the crisis. In this paper, we use a quantitative questionnaire developed for measuring temporal and social disorientation on a sample of 3306 respondents during an acute phase of restrictions in France. We show that social disorientation greatly contributed to the temporal disruptions experienced during the pandemic. This result reinforces the importance for public authorities to address the compounding effect of feeling isolated during crises.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 577-598 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | British journal of psychology |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 21 Apr 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2024 |
Bibliographical note
© 2024 The Authors. British Journal of Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society.Keywords
- Humans
- COVID-19/psychology
- Male
- France/epidemiology
- Female
- Adult
- Surveys and Questionnaires
- Middle Aged
- Confusion/psychology
- Social Isolation/psychology
- Young Adult
- Aged
- Adolescent
- Time Factors