Children and the Pandemic: Anxiety, Hopes and Everyday Life

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10.2991/assehr.k.201105.078How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COVID-19, pandemic, quarantine, children’s everyday life

Abstract

The pandemic, quarantine and other consequences of COVID-19 affecting the world have inevitably impacted upon the lives of adults and children, causing lifestyle changes and, in some instances, negative psychical states. The article presents the results of an empirical study of children’s everyday life and childhood experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data have been collected by structured interview with children aged 10-16. The informants live in a small town of Russia’s Far East. The responses received have been analysed in terms of sources of information on the coronavirus, changes in the lives of children and their attitudes to these changes. Children’s everyday life during the pandemic turns out to be embedded in the self-isolation regime. All worries and hopes of children are related to the end of this regime. Self-isolation has led many respondents to reassess live communication with their peers, offline studies at school and meaningful communication within the family.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A. Filipova
AU  - O. Zubova
AU  - L. Tolvaišis
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/06
TI  - Children and the Pandemic: Anxiety, Hopes and Everyday Life
BT  - Proceedings of the Research Technologies of Pandemic Coronavirus Impact (RTCOV 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 435
EP  - 438
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201105.078
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201105.078
ID  - Filipova2020
ER  -