Open AccessWhat Really Matters: The Effect of Covid-19 on the Factors of Life Satisfaction
Author(s) -
Julius Janáček
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of emerging trends in social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2521-3539
DOI - 10.20448/2001.112.18.27
Subject(s) - life satisfaction , pandemic , czech , ordered logit , psychology , ordinal regression , logistic regression , questionnaire , covid-19 , demography , social psychology , sociology , medicine , mathematics , social science , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology
This article investigates the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the structure of factors of life satisfaction in the city of Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. The dataset is based on a questionnaire survey conducted in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Subsequent data analysis is conducted using ordinal logistic regression models. The results show that the emergence of the pandemic had a significant impact on life satisfaction factors. Firstly, the importance of family came to the fore: being in a relationship or being married proved to be a significant factor of life satisfaction during the pandemic but not before the pandemic. Secondly, a negative association between drinking alcohol and life satisfaction emerged during the pandemic. Alcohol probably started to be the tool for stress relief. Thirdly, sport became a significant positive factor of women’s life satisfaction. Sport most likely became an effective way of keeping oneself in balance. Results indicate that during a difficult time period there are different ways of how to deal with it. In this way doing sports and drinking alcohol seem to be substitute activities.