Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment of Coping with Loneliness amid COVID-19 in Germany

• Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 7; p. 3946
• Main Authors: Wegner, Luisa, Haucke, Matthias N, Heinzel, Stephan, Liu, Shuyan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 26.03.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Communicable Disease Control; Coping; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Emotions; Female; Gender differences; Germany - epidemiology; Humans; Loneliness; Loneliness - psychology; Male; Mental health; Pandemics; SARS-CoV-2; Smartphone; Smartphones; Germany; relationship-focused coping; emotion-focused coping; second national lockdown; perceived social isolation; problem-focused coping

The COVID-19 pandemic may have caused people to feel isolated, left out, and in need of companionship. Effective strategies to cope with such unrelenting feelings of loneliness are needed. In times of COVID-19, we conducted a smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study with 280 lone...