The war in Ukraine, which began two years ago, affected well-being around the world, and the speed of recovery of individual people depended on their personality: on average it took two months, but in some cases absorb the impact of this event took longer.
This is what emerges from research published in Nature Nature Communications and led by the University of Münster, in Germany, which involved several universities including the University of Milan Bicocca and the University of Campania Vanvitelli.
The analyzes focused primarily on 1,341 participants living in 17 European countries, excluding Ukraine.
We also chose to expand these analyzes to capture the experiences of 1,735 people living in 43 countries around the world.
On February 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded Ukraine, there was a sharp decline in well-being across the world.
People in Europe have experienced this more markedly than those living in other parts of the world.
Presumably the war was much more important to those who were closest to the conflict, than to those who lived on a different continent.
Interestingly, the research found that daily fluctuations in well-being mirrored the importance given to the war on social media as events unfolded.
Specifically, well-being was lower on days when there were more tweets mentioning Ukraine.
The findings indicate that, on average, it took about two months for people to return to baseline levels of well-being after the invasion.
But the personalities of each of the participants played a role in how quickly they recovered.
In particular, the data shows that people with less stable personalities fared worse in terms of recovering from the impact the war had on their well-being.
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