Face-to-face more important than digital communication for mental health during the pandemic.
Sci Rep
; 13(1): 8022, 2023 05 17.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2326480
ABSTRACT
During the lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, many people tried to compensate for limited face-to-face interaction by increasing digital communication. Results of a four-week experience sampling study in the German-speaking countries (N = 411 participants; k = 9791 daily questionnaires) suggest, however, that digital communication was far less relevant for lockdown mental health than face-to-face communication. Digital text-based communication (e.g., e-mail, WhatsApp, SMS) nevertheless was meaningfully associated with mental health, and both face-to-face and digital text communication were more predictive of mental health than either physical or outdoor activity. Our results underscore the importance of face-to-face communication for mental health. Our results also suggest that videoconferencing was only negligibly associated with mental health, despite providing more visual and audible cues than digital text communication.
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Bases de datos internacionales
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Pandemias
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio observacional
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Estudio pronóstico
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Investigación cualitativa
Límite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Sci Rep
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
País de afiliación:
S41598-023-34957-4
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