TY - JOUR
T1 - Time and Covid-19 stress in the lockdown situation
T2 - Time free, «Dying» of boredom and sadness
AU - Droit-Volet, Sylvie
AU - Gil, Sandrine
AU - Martinelli, Natalia
AU - Andant, Nicolas
AU - Clinchamps, Maélys
AU - Parreira, Lénise
AU - Rouffiac, Karine
AU - Dambrun, Michael
AU - Huguet, Pascal
AU - Dubuis, Benoît
AU - Pereira, Bruno
AU - Bouillon, Jean Baptiste
AU - Dutheil, Frédéric
AU - Covistress Network
A2 - Baker, Julien
N1 - Funding Information:
The French national research agency (ANR) financially supported this project within the framework of the ANR flash COVID-19. The CNRS Foundation has provided additional financial support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Droit-Volet et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2020/8/10
Y1 - 2020/8/10
N2 - A lockdown of people has been used as an efficient public health measure to fight against the exponential spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and allows the health system to manage the number of patients. The aim of this study (clinicaltrials.gov NCT 0430818) was to evaluate the impact of both perceived stress aroused by Covid-19 and of emotions triggered by the lockdown situation on the individual experience of time. A large sample of the French population responded to a survey on their experience of the passage of time during the lockdown compared to before the lockdown. The perceived stress resulting from Covid-19 and stress at work and home were also assessed, as were the emotions felt. The results showed that people have experienced a slowing down of time during the lockdown. This time experience was not explained by the levels of perceived stress or anxiety, although these were considerable, but rather by the increase in boredom and sadness felt in the lockdown situation. The increased anger and fear of death only explained a small part of variance in the time judgment. The conscious experience of time therefore reflected the psychological difficulties experienced during lockdown and was not related to their perceived level of stress or anxiety.
AB - A lockdown of people has been used as an efficient public health measure to fight against the exponential spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and allows the health system to manage the number of patients. The aim of this study (clinicaltrials.gov NCT 0430818) was to evaluate the impact of both perceived stress aroused by Covid-19 and of emotions triggered by the lockdown situation on the individual experience of time. A large sample of the French population responded to a survey on their experience of the passage of time during the lockdown compared to before the lockdown. The perceived stress resulting from Covid-19 and stress at work and home were also assessed, as were the emotions felt. The results showed that people have experienced a slowing down of time during the lockdown. This time experience was not explained by the levels of perceived stress or anxiety, although these were considerable, but rather by the increase in boredom and sadness felt in the lockdown situation. The increased anger and fear of death only explained a small part of variance in the time judgment. The conscious experience of time therefore reflected the psychological difficulties experienced during lockdown and was not related to their perceived level of stress or anxiety.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0236465
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0236465
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32776990
AN - SCOPUS:85089330618
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 15
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 8
M1 - e0236465
ER -
