Open AccessPandemia COVID-19 w doświadczeniu osób w okresie późnej dorosłości
Author(s) -
Emilia Ilnicka,
Dominika Kasprzyk,
Agata Ogórek,
Agnieszka Sternak,
Anna Cierpka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychologia rozwojowa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2084-3879
pISSN - 1895-6297
DOI - 10.4467/20843879pr.21.012.15135
Subject(s) - pandemic , coping (psychology) , psychology , thematic analysis , covid-19 , context (archaeology) , cognition , psychological intervention , nonprobability sampling , qualitative research , developmental psychology , social psychology , gerontology , clinical psychology , disease , medicine , sociology , demography , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , social science , population , paleontology , pathology , biology
The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Experience of People in Late AdulthoodThe article presents a qualitative study on the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic among people aged 60+, carried out in its initial stage, in Poland. Three individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted in May 2020, in order to explore how the pandemic is perceived in a cognitive, emotional and social context, and how it refers to study participants’ past experiences. Purposive sampling was used, taking into account criteria of the specific situation of people aged 60+: belonging to the group at increased risk of serious consequences of the disease and being subject to special preventive interventions. Based on the thematic analysis of the data corpus, six issues were identified: information about the coronavirus, changes in the current life, emotional and cognitive attitudes, references to the past, coping strategies and predictions. There was a large variation observed in the way of thinking about the reported events, experienced emotions and visions of the future. The pandemic phenomenon was presented on many levels, being evaluated as a difficult but perhaps valuable experience.