"What I thought was so important isn't really that important": international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Irina TodorovaLiesemarie AlbersNicole AronsonAdriana BabanYael BenyaminiSabrina CipollettaMaría del Río CarralElitsa DimitrovaClaire DudleyMariana T GuzzardoRazan HammoudDarlina Hani Fadil AzimFemke HilverdaQi HuangLiji JohnMichaela KanevaSanjida KhanZlatina KostovaTatyana KotzevaM A FathimaMilu Maria AntoChloé MichoudMohammad Abdul Awal MiahJulia MohrKaren MorganElena Simona NastaseEfrat NeterYulia PanayotovaHemali PatelDhanya PillaiManuela Polidoro LimaDesiree Baolian QinChristel SalewskiK Anu SankarSabrina ShaoJeevanisha SureshRalitsa TodorovaSilvia Caterina Maria TomainoManja VollmannDavid WinterMingjun XieSam Xuan NingAsya ZlatarskaPublished in: Health psychology and behavioral medicine (2021)
The paper provides a detailed overview of the methodology, the main themes identified inductively in the stories and differences according to select demographic variables. We identify several major ways of making meaning of the pandemic. The pandemic has impacted many aspects of people's lives which give it meaning, no matter where they live.