ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Three years of COVID-19 and life satisfaction in Europe: A macro view.
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- Mental health in adults aged 50+ since the COVID-19 pandemic: Are we (all) back to 'normal'? evidence from England.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2026Article
- [The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: mental health trajectories, resilient and vulnerable groups].Der Nervenarzt · 2025Review
- Recovery of psychological wellbeing following the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis of the English longitudinal study of ageing.Aging & mental health · 2025Article
- Community Vulnerability: Measuring the Health Situation of a Population After COVID-19 Through Electronic Health Record Indicators.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pandemic Fallout: Sustained Declines in Young People's Subjective Well-Being and Protective Factors in Switzerland.Social indicators research · 2025Article
- Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Every country in Europe experienced an adverse impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on life satisfaction, though on average, satisfaction with life in the summer of 2022 is about the same as the pre-pandemic value in the autumn of 2019. Typically, an upsurge in the severity of the pandemic (measured by the number of COVID-related deaths) is associated with declining life satisfaction and an ebbing, with increasing life satisfaction. Of the three waves of the pandemic between March 2020 and the autumn of 2022, the most severe impact typically occurred in 2021 during the second wave; in the third wave, the response declined due to the spread of effective vaccines and the takeover of omicron variants.
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