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Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19? : The Role of Extraversion Folk, Dunigan; Okabe-Miyamoto, Karynna; Dunn, Elizabeth; Lyubomirsky, Sonja
Abstract
In two pre-registered studies, we tracked changes in individuals’ feelings of social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both studies capitalized on measures of social connection and well-being obtained prior to the COVID-19 pandemic by recruiting the same participants again in the midst of the pandemic’s upending effects. Study 1 included a sample of undergraduates from a Canadian university (N = 467), and Study 2 included community adults primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom (N = 336). Our results suggest that people experienced relatively little change in feelings of social connection in the face of the initial reshaping of their social lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploratory analyses suggested that relatively extraverted individuals exhibited larger declines in social connection. However, after controlling for levels of social connection prior to the pandemic (as pre-registered), the negative effect of extraversion reversed (Study 1) or disappeared (Study 2).
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Did Social Connection Decline During the First Wave of COVID-19? : The Role of Extraversion
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University of California Press
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2020-07-24
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In two pre-registered studies, we tracked changes in individuals’ feelings of social connection during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Both studies capitalized on measures of social connection and well-being obtained
prior to the COVID-19 pandemic by recruiting the same participants again in the midst of the pandemic’s
upending effects. Study 1 included a sample of undergraduates from a Canadian university (N = 467), and
Study 2 included community adults primarily from the United States and the United Kingdom (N = 336).
Our results suggest that people experienced relatively little change in feelings of social connection in the face of the initial reshaping of their social lives caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploratory analyses suggested that relatively extraverted individuals exhibited larger declines in social connection. However, after controlling for levels of social connection prior to the pandemic (as pre-registered), the negative
effect of extraversion reversed (Study 1) or disappeared (Study 2).
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eng
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2021-06-11
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0398333
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Folk, D., Okabe-Miyamoto, K., Dunn, E., & Lyubomirsky, S. (2020). Did social connection decline during the first wave of COVID-19?: The role of extraversion. Collabra. Psychology, 6(1), 37.
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10.1525/collabra.365
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Reviewed
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Faculty; Graduate
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