Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from five European countries.

Autor/inn/en	Rebechi, Alessio; Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; Rohde, Nicholas; Vögele, Claus; D´Ambrosio, Conchita
Titel	Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from five European countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Einsamkeit während der COVID-19-Pandemie: Erkenntnisse aus fünf europäischen Ländern.
Quelle	In: Economics and human biology, (2024) 55, Art. 101427, 8 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1873-6130
DOI	10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101427
Schlagwörter	Soziale Isolation; Soziale Ungleichheit; Pandemie; Ökonomische Determinanten; Qualifikation; Internationaler Vergleich; Alter; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Allein stehende Frau; Deutschland; Frankreich; Italien; Schweden; Spanien
Abstract	"We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then remained relatively stable throughout 2021 and 2022. We then establish the individual determinants of loneliness and compare them to those found in the literature predating the COVID-19 pandemic. As in previous work, women are lonelier, and partnership, education, income, and employment protect against loneliness. However, the pandemic substantially shifted the age profile: it is now the youngest who are the loneliest. We last show that pandemic policies affected loneliness, which rose with containment policies but fell with government economic support. Conversely, the intensity of the pandemic itself, via the number of recent COVID-19 deaths, had only a minor impact. The experience of the pandemic has thus shown that public policy can influence societal loneliness trends." The study refers to the period 2020-2022 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Authors. Publishedby Elsevier B.V.).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4