{"id":8485,"date":"2020-07-24T10:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8485"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:18:22","slug":"students-under-lockdown-comparisons-of-students-social-networks-and-mental-health-before-and-during-the-covid-19-crisis-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/24\/students-under-lockdown-comparisons-of-students-social-networks-and-mental-health-before-and-during-the-covid-19-crisis-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Students under Lockdown: Comparisons of Students\u2019 Social Networks and Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Crisis in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An analysis of longitudinally collected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">social\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">network parameters and mental health outcomes among two cohorts\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=212 and n=57)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of Swiss undergraduate students<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0before and during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0social networks were sparser\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during the pandemic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and students were more likely to study in isolation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">;\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">however\u00a0friendship and social support networks did not differ significantly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0between the two periods<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stronger social ties were more likely to be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">maintained<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0but\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">there was an increasing number of isolated individuals.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Students\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were on average more depressed, slightly more anxious, more stressed, and felt\u00a0more lonely\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">during the pandemic compared to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">half a year earlier<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ome students reported that the\u00a0crisis situation\u00a0affected their lives positively\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by reducing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Fear of Missing Out<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and competition among the students.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Elmer et al. (2020). Students under Lockdown: Comparisons of Students\u2019 Social Networks and Mental Health before and during the COVID-19 Crisis in Switzerland.\u00a0PloS\u00a0One.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0236337\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0236337<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of longitudinally collected\u00a0social\u00a0network parameters and mental health outcomes among two cohorts\u00a0(n=212 and n=57)\u00a0of Swiss undergraduate students\u00a0before and during the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0found that\u00a0social networks were sparser\u00a0during the pandemic\u00a0and students were more likely to study in isolation;\u00a0however\u00a0friendship and social support networks did not differ significantly\u00a0between the two periods.\u00a0Stronger social ties were more likely to be\u00a0maintained\u00a0but\u00a0there&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/24\/students-under-lockdown-comparisons-of-students-social-networks-and-mental-health-before-and-during-the-covid-19-crisis-in-switzerland\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8486,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}