BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE & WELLBEING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Curbing the Covid-19 pandemic required people to change their daily behaviours and limit social interactions in drastic ways. How did we adapt to such a big behavioural change and how have these changes affected our wellbeing in return?
To answer these questions, I led a study in which we collected multinational survey data from 1000s of people in 5 continents and 12 languages (Arabic, Bangla, German, English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Persian, Swedish, Turkish, Mandarin).
More info about this project is at our OSF page here.
Collaborators
Ophelia Deroy (Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich)
Guillaume Dezecache (Université Clermont Auvergne, LAPSCO)
Marwa El Zein (University College London)
Valerie van Mulukom (Coventry University)
Martha Newson (University of Kent)
Justin Sulik (Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich)
Yi Zhao (Indiana University)
Key Publications
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Tunçgenç, B., Newson, M., Sulik, J., Zhao, Y., Dezecache, G., Deroy, O., & El Zein, M. (2022). Social alignment matters: Following pandemic guidelines is associated with better wellbeing. BMC Public Health 22, 821 (2022). doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13130-y
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Sulik, J., Deroy, O., Dezecache, G., Newson, M., Zhao, Y., Zein, M. El, & Tunçgenç, B. (2021). Facing the pandemic with trust in science. Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 1–10. doi: 10.1057/s41599-021-00982-9
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Newson, M., Zhao, Y., Zein, M. El, Sulik, J., Dezecache, G., Deroy, O., & Tunçgenç, B. (2021). Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic. New Media & Society, 1–24. doi: 10.1177/14614448211062164
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Tunçgenç, B., El Zein, M., Sulik, J., Newson, M., Zhao, Y., Dezecache, G., & Deroy, O. (2021). Social influence matters: We follow pandemic guidelines most when our close circle does. British Journal of Psychology, doi: 10.1111/bjop.12491