The return of happiness : resilience in times of pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorAhlheim, Michaelde
dc.contributor.authorKim, In Woode
dc.contributor.authorVuong, Duy Thanhde
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-08T09:02:10Z
dc.date.available2024-04-08T09:02:10Z
dc.date.created2022-03-29
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMany papers have been written about peoples loss of life satisfaction during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but not much has been said about their resilience after the first shock had passed. Were people able to return, at least in part, to their original level of life satisfaction? This amounts to the question to which degree people had shown psychological resilience during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. In this context, it is also of interest which internal and external factors supported a persons tendency to prove resilient during the crisis. Based on an online survey conducted in August / September 2020 in Germany we try to answer these questions. We find that after a loss of average life satisfaction during the first three months after the outbreak of the pandemic in Germany many peoples life satisfaction increased again. Roughly 60% of the respondents proved resilient in the sense that eight months after the outbreak of the pandemic they had regained the same or an even higher level of life satisfaction as compared to the situation before the COVID-19 crisis. Our results show that besides socioeconomic characteristics like age and income and certain character traits, peoples personal experience during the crisis and their approval or disapproval of government policy during the crisis had an important influence on their chance to prove resilient. Therefore, a consistent and competent crisis communication building up trust in governments crisis management capacity is essential for peoples resilience in a crisis.en
dc.identifier.swb1796839507
dc.identifier.urihttps://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6710
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-20174
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2022,03
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dc.rights.urihttp://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subjectResilienceen
dc.subjectResistanceen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectLife satisfactionen
dc.subject.ddc300
dc.subject.gndCOVID-19de
dc.subject.gndResilienzde
dc.subject.gndZufriedenheitde
dc.titleThe return of happiness : resilience in times of pandemicde
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local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlaceUniversität Hohenheimde
local.export.bibtex@techreport{Ahlheim2022, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6710}, author = {Ahlheim, Michael and Kim, In Woo and Vuong, Duy Thanh et al.}, title = {The return of happiness : resilience in times of pandemic}, year = {2022}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthorAhlheim, Michael and Kim, In Woo and Vuong, Duy Thanh et al.
local.export.bibtexKeyAhlheim2022
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local.faculty.number3de
local.institute.number520de
local.opus.number2017
local.series.issueNumber2022,03
local.series.titleHohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.universityUniversität Hohenheimde
local.university.facultyFaculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciencesen
local.university.facultyFakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftende
local.university.instituteInstitute for Economicsen
local.university.instituteInstitut für Volkswirtschaftslehrede

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