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A misfortune or a benefit? Young people’s quality of life and romantic relationships during the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Nikola Kallová EMAIL logo , Denisa Hnatkovičová and Ivan Lukšík
Published/Copyright: April 24, 2022

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought unexpected changes in important aspects of young people’s lives. The academic literature contains many studies on the risks and adverse effects, while any potential positive aspects have been side-lined. This paper examines quality of life and relationships among young people in emerging and young adulthood in order to identify the negatives and benefits of the pandemic. In this qualitative research a “letter to a friend” free-writing exercise was used as the data collection method on a total sample of 107 young people aged 18-34 years. Using reflective thematic analysis, the statements were then grouped into two themes: “Covid as a misfortune” and “Covid as a benefit”.


Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences Comenius University in Bratislava Mlynské luhy 4 821 05 Bratislava Slovakia


Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under Contract no. APVV-18-0303

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Published Online: 2022-04-24
Published in Print: 2022-04-26

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