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dc.contributor.advisorMartiny, Sarah E.
dc.contributor.authorIngen, Kornelia van
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-14T05:35:29Z
dc.date.available2024-06-14T05:35:29Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-01en
dc.description.abstractLate in 2019, the world changed due to the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus. As a consequence of this virus, governments decided to implement lockdowns and school closures, as a measure to reduce the spreading of the deadly virus. In the present work, we aimed to investigate the impact these lockdowns and school closures had on children’s well-being. We used a cross-country approach with data from four European countries (Germany, Norway, Sweden and the UK), with retrospective questions from lockdown period and present questions (after lockdown). We asked parents to report their children’s well-being during the COVID pandemic (target group age 6-13). We predicted that children’s well-being was lower in spring 2020 during school closures than in fall 2020 when schools had opened again. In addition, this should not be the case for Swedish children, since Sweden was one of the few countries that did not close down elementary schools. We also investigated whether having siblings in the same household would buffer the negative effect of COVID restrictions. In line with our predictions, we found lower well-being for children during lockdown than after lockdown, as well as lower well-being in countries that implemented school closures, compared to the Sweden sample. However, we did not find support for our hypothesis about the positive effect of siblings. Applied implications of the present results will be discussed.en_US
dc.description.abstractSent i 2019 endret verden seg på grunn av spredningen av SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) viruset. Som en konsekvens av dette viruset, bestemte regjeringer seg for å implementere lockdown og skolestengninger, som et tiltak for å redusere spredningen av det dødelige viruset. I dette arbeidet, ønsket vi å undersøke hvilken innvirkning lockdown og skolestengning hadde på barns velvære. Vi brukte data fra fire Europeiske land (Tyskland, Norge, Sverige og Storbritannia), med retrospektive spørsmål fra lockdown perioden og nåværende spørsmål (etter lockdown). Vi spurte foreldre om å rapportere om barnas velvære under COVID pandemien (målgruppe alder 6-13). Vi forventet at barns velvære var lavere våren 2020 under skolestengningene enn på høsten 2020, når skoler hadde åpnet igjen. I tillegg, vil ikke dette være tilfelle for svenske barn, siden Sverige var ett av få land som ikke stengte ned barneskoler. Vi undersøkte også om det å ha søsken i samme husstand ville dempe den negative effekten av COVID restriksjonene. Som forventet, fant vi lavere velvære for barn under lockdown enn etter lockdown, samt lavere velvære i land som implementerte skolestengning, sammenlignet med deltakere fra Sverige. Vi fant imidlertid ikke støtte for vår hypotese om den positive effekten av søsken. De anvendte implikasjonene av de nåværende resultatene vil bli diskutert.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/33797
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2024 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDPSY-3900
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectchild well-beingen_US
dc.subjectsiblingsen_US
dc.subjectschool closuresen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectbarns velværeen_US
dc.subjectsøskenen_US
dc.subjectskolestengningen_US
dc.titleElementary Children’s Well-Being and The Effect of Siblings During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison of Four European Countriesen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveno
dc.typeMaster thesisen


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