Well-being During the Pandemic

Comparative Perspectives from the Global North and South
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-63439-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: Social Indicators Research Series

This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediating effects of social inequalities. The volume brings together and into dialogue the different experiences and perspectives of countries and researchers from the Global North and South. Expert scholars from across the world have analyzed empirical data to reveal how the restrictions associated with the pandemic interrupted lives and livelihoods, and how different socio-economic groups and classes have been differently affected by the crisis. The chapters coalesce around four themes: the impact of COVID-19 on subjective well-being, life satisfaction and happiness in a comparative and longitudinal perspective; the impact of COVID-19 on employment and workers’ well-being; sociability, civic participation and solidarity during COVID-19; and the impact of COVID-19 on children’s and youths’ well-being. Engaging with contemporary theoretical debates on well-being, happiness and quality of life, this volume is of interest to scholars working on well-being, happiness and quality of life, global and cross-national studies, the social impact of COVID-19, and on social and economic change.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suter, Christian

Fachelli, Sandra

Chesters, Jenny

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Threats to Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic.- Part I: The Impact of Covid-19 on Life Satisfaction and Happiness: Comparative and Longitudinal Perspectives.- The Impact of Covid-19 on Life Satisfaction: A Cross-National, Long Term Perspective.- Happiness Trends Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia: Assessing the Influence of Charitable Donations and Pandemic Severity.- The Well-Being of Young People in Europe During the Pandemic: The Social Ties, Labor Market Integration, and the Social Inequalities.- Part II: The Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Workers’ Well-Being.- Employment Vulnerabilities of Female and Young Adults in Arab Countries: Trends Since the Onset 0f Covid-19.- The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Faculty Well-Being: A Study of Academic Staff at Three Colleges in New York State.- Limited Social Contact at Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Shift Worker's Health and Well-Being.- Part III: Sociability, Civic Participation and Solidarity During the Pandemic.- The Pandemic Effects on Sociability and Well-Being of Low-Income Adolescents in Mexico.- The Latent Classes of the Volunteer Satisfaction Index and Donation During the Pandemic in Singapore.- Covid-19 and Community-Based Volunteerism: How the Rohingya Volunteers Acted for Community Engagement to Fight Against the Pandemic in Rohingya Refugee Camps of Bangladesh.- Part IV: The Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Well-Being.- Children’s Well-Being During the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study Among 10–12 Year Old School Children in Bangladesh.- Children’s Profiles of Subjective Well-Being Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic and its Correlates: A Multi-National Study.- The Impact of Covid-19 on Young People’s Levels of Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Hilda 2001–2020.

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Suter is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). After receiving his PhD in sociology from the University of Zurich, he was Visiting Scholar at the Colegio de México, Visiting Professor at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel. He is currently doing research on social indicators and quality of life, and on globalization and world society. His earlier research has focused on social and economic inequalities and poverty, sovereign debt and global debt crises, social and political transformations in Latin America, and social support and health. He has published and edited more than 40 books and special issues, as well as many articles in international social sciences journals, encyclopedia, and volumes. His most recent book publications include (Routledge 2024),(Springer 2023), (LIT 2022), (Springer 2021), (Routledge 2020), and (Springer 2019). He is the winner of the Book Award of the American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World-System Section (1993) and has been awarded the Fritz Thyssen Prize for articles in social sciences journals (1998), and the Research Fellow Award from the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies for substantial contribution to quality-of-life research (2020).

Jenny Chesters is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD was awarded by the University of Queensland in 2009. She is currently coordinating the Capstone subject for the Master of Education and is a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council-funded Life Patterns project. Her recent publications include: School-to-work transition and subjective well-being in Australia (2021, ; Cross-national comparison of age and period effects on levels of subjective well-being in Australia and Switzerland during volatile economic times (2001- 2016) (2020, . She is also the editor of the (2024, Edward Elgar) and a sub-section editor for the 2nd Edition (2024, Springer). Her research interests include comparative perspectives on subjective well-being, social stratification, and transitions between education and employment throughout the life course.

Sandra Fachelli is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. She has a post-doctorate degree in social science from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), a PhD in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a diploma of Advanced Studies in sociology, as well as master’s degrees in Introduction to Research in Sociology (UAB) and in Design and Management of Policies and Social Programs (FLACSO Argentina). She is teaching coordinator and professor of the master’s program in Applied Social Research Techniques (TISA) co-coordinated by UAB and Barcelona University. She is currently president of the Research Committee 06 “Inequality and Social Stratification” of the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES), collaborating researcher of the Research Group on Education and Work (GRET) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and vice-president of RC55 “Social Indicators” of the International Sociological Association. Her most recent books are (Springer 2023), (2021), and (2020). Her main research areas include inequality, stratification and social mobility, higher education and work.