This website is dedicated to the dissemination of results from an on-line survey focused on intergenerational relationships and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TEAM

This study has been designed by Bruno Arpino, Valeria Bordone and Marta Pasqualini in collaboration with Aïda Solé-Auró, Léa Pessin and Daniele Vignoli. 

GOALS

The restrictions to movements, events and relations imposed in different countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic have limited the possibility to meet and socialise with other people. This may have contributed to a deterioration in people’s mental health on top of other negative consequences of the pandemic. The goal of the study is twofold. First, we aim at examining to what extent intergenerational physical and non-physical contacts have changed during the pandemic. Second, we aim at testing whether people that managed to maintain social contacts even if at a distance have better coped with the stress created by the pandemic.

DATA

The data have been collected through an on-line survey by the survey company Lucid on a total sample of 9,186 individuals in Italy, Spain and France (about 3,000 respondents per country) in April 2020. We used quota sampling targeting the population aged 18+. Based on data from national statistical offices, we have set quotas proportional to the prevalence in the country of each category of the following variables: gender, age, region, education and income.

We collected data on:

• Intergenerational (and other type) of relationships (physical and non-physical; means of communication; frequency, etc.)

• Living arrangements

• Mental health

• Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., income loss, death of relative/friend due to COVID-19, worsened partner relationships, time spent with family)

• Intentions for the future 3 years (e.g., fertility, living parental home, marriage, divorce, retirement)

In this website we report the main descriptive findings from the survey and the list of publications based on this data. 

The working paper below describes the data, reports the main descriptive findings and includes the questionnaire in English:

Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V., & Solé-Auró, A. (2020, July 7). Indirect consequences of COVID-19 on people’s lives. Findings from an on-line survey in France, Italy and Spain. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4sfv9.

If you are interested in implementing the study in other countries or other periods of time or if you have any question, please contact: bruno.arpino@unifi.it

We acknowledge funding from the the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (PCIN-2016-005).