The return of happiness : resilience in times of pandemic

Ahlheim, Michael; Kim, In Woo; Vuong, Duy Thanh

The return of happiness : resilience in times of pandemic

dc.contributor.author	Ahlheim, Michael	de
dc.contributor.author	Kim, In Woo	de
dc.contributor.author	Vuong, Duy Thanh	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T09:02:10Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T09:02:10Z
dc.date.created	2022-03-29
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	Many 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.swb	1796839507
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6710
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-20174
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2022,03
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Resilience	en
dc.subject	Resistance	en
dc.subject	COVID-19	en
dc.subject	Life satisfaction	en
dc.subject.ddc	300
dc.subject.gnd	COVID-19	de
dc.subject.gnd	Resilienz	de
dc.subject.gnd	Zufriedenheit	de
dc.title	The return of happiness : resilience in times of pandemic	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	2017
local.series.issueNumber	2022,03
local.series.title	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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