Effects of Gender, Marital Status, Living Status, Personality and Value Orientation on Attitude and Emotions during Covid-19 Lockdown

Abstract

The present study was carried during lockdown at the onset of covid-19 pandemic in May 2020. The fear of spread of pandemic had led to precautionary lockdown to curb the spread of virus in Delhi. As this was a new and unpredictable experience for most of the people in India, the study intended to understand the stress experienced by different categories of people and the coping strategies they used to overcome the stress. The study was carried out by an online semi-structured questionnaire, which was filled by 300 individuals. The questions probed about their demographic details (age, gender, living status, marital status, occupational status), the structuring of their time and schedule, the intensity of the COVID-19 problem (perceived severity), the experience of lockdown, their assessment of probability of getting infected by Covid (perceived susceptibility), dealing with fear and coping with stress of lockdown. The analysis was done and findings had resulted in interesting insights about relationship between gender, marital status, family type and experience and coping with stress.