TY - JOUR
T1 - Differences in and drivers of mental, social, functional, and financial well-being during COVID-19
T2 - Evidence from Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa
AU - Hoffmann, Arvid
AU - Plotkina, Daria
AU - Broihanne, Marie-Hélène
AU - Göritz, Anja
AU - Kleimeier, Stefanie
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Funding Information:
AH, MHB, DP, AG, and SK acknowledge support by the Academic Consortium for the 21st Century (Special Project Fund)and Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Freiburg. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Hoffmann 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 - 2022/10/13
Y1 - 2022/10/13
N2 - COVID-19 has a substantial and unexpected impact on individuals' daily life around the world. Unprecedented public health restrictions such as lockdowns have the potential to affect multiple dimensions of individuals' well-being, while the severity of such restrictions varies across countries. However, a holistic perspective comparing differences in and drivers of the different dimensions of well-being across countries differentially affected by COVID-19 is missing to date. We address this gap in the literature by examining the mental, social, functional, and financial well-being of 2,100 individuals across Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa by means of a survey administered during May of 2021. Supporting our holistic approach, we find that the different dimensions of well-being are correlated, with survey respondents from France reporting the lowest and those from Australia reporting the highest overall level of well-being. Respondents' subjective and objective evaluations of their living conditions during lockdowns as well as positive health and financial behaviors are positively associated with their well-being during the pandemic.
AB - COVID-19 has a substantial and unexpected impact on individuals' daily life around the world. Unprecedented public health restrictions such as lockdowns have the potential to affect multiple dimensions of individuals' well-being, while the severity of such restrictions varies across countries. However, a holistic perspective comparing differences in and drivers of the different dimensions of well-being across countries differentially affected by COVID-19 is missing to date. We address this gap in the literature by examining the mental, social, functional, and financial well-being of 2,100 individuals across Australia, France, Germany, and South Africa by means of a survey administered during May of 2021. Supporting our holistic approach, we find that the different dimensions of well-being are correlated, with survey respondents from France reporting the lowest and those from Australia reporting the highest overall level of well-being. Respondents' subjective and objective evaluations of their living conditions during lockdowns as well as positive health and financial behaviors are positively associated with their well-being during the pandemic.
KW - Australia/epidemiology
KW - COVID-19/epidemiology
KW - Communicable Disease Control
KW - Germany/epidemiology
KW - Humans
KW - South Africa/epidemiology
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0276077
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0276077
M3 - Article
C2 - 36228025
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 17
JO - PLOS ONE
JF - PLOS ONE
IS - 10
M1 - e0276077
ER -