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Changes in Alcohol use in the Netherlands before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the Effects of Personality, Loneliness and Gender
Völler, M. (2022) Changes in Alcohol use in the Netherlands before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the Effects of Personality, Loneliness and Gender.
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| Abstract: | The COVID-19 pandemic and the precautionary restrictions targeting the transmission of the virus resulted in a high psychological burden for the public and might have potentially affected health-related behaviour, including alcohol use. This study examined changes in alcohol use before and during the pandemic and whether there was a difference between men and women, people with high, moderate, or low extraversion, and individuals who were lonely or not. The sample of 3671 Dutch citizens from the LISS Panel‘s longitudinal quantitative study provided information about demographics and variations in alcohol use, extraversion and loneliness from 2018 to 2021. Mixed-design ANOVAs were conducted to investigate the effect of gender, extraversion, and loneliness on alcohol use over time, while multiple linear regression analysis was performed to detect whether loneliness and gender act as confounding variables between extraversion and alcohol use. Alcohol use showed to remain stable from 2018 to 2021. Extraversion and time, loneliness and time, and gender and time each had no significant interaction effect on alcohol use. It seems that neither the COVID-19 pandemic nor differences in extraversion, loneliness, and gender had as high of an impact on alcohol consumption as expected. Aspects to consider are other extraneous variables and differences in studies, such as the samples’ characteristics, the data collection method and used questionnaires. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/93146 |
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