Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction: evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data.

Autor/inn/en	Neugebauer, Martin; Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Sandner, Malte
Titel	Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people's life satisfaction: evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Zwei Pandemiejahre haben die Lebenszufriedenheit junger Menschen stark beeinträchtigt: Erkenntnisse aus einem Vergleich mit Paneldaten aus der Zeit vor COVID-19.
Quelle	In: European sociological review, (2023) online first, 01 December 2023, 15 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	frühere (möglicherweise abweichende) Version erschienen als: IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, 16636
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-2672
DOI	10.1093/esr/jcad077
Schlagwörter	Soziale Situation; Zufriedenheit; Gymnasium; Schüler; Pandemie; Freizeitverhalten; Auswirkung; Lebensweise; Abiturient; NEPS (National Educational Panel Study); Deutschland
Abstract	"How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with the development in prepandemic cohorts (N = 4,834) with a difference-in-differences design. We found a decline in life satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen's d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general population and persisted until winter 2021/2022. Young people found some restrictions particularly burdensome, especially travel restrictions, bans on cultural events, and the closure of bars/clubs." The study refers to the period 2014-2022. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Oxford University Press)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1