Everyone experiences the corona pandemic differently.
But how?
A long-term study in which researchers from Munich were also involved wanted to find out.
Munich - What is the pandemic doing to people?
What attitude towards life does the corona threat create?
Exciting questions whose answers are not easy to find.
Diakonie recognized this as early as 2020 and teamed up with LMU Munich.
Your project: A long-term study in which 50 people of different ages and different faith groups were interviewed.
The results have now been presented.
People want to talk about how they are feeling
They show that
people's attitude towards
life
is highly contradictory.
How much the people in the study had to say to the simple question “How are you?” Surprised Professor Christian Albrecht from the LMU.
The conclusion of the theologian: Not the big questions of church and religion burned under the nails of the people in the past few months.
Listening and direct support are currently of the greatest help to those affected by pandemics.
“A sermon that comforts.
Or the pastor who sat on the bench in front of the house every day ”- to talk to people.
Diakonie wants to use the results of the study to adapt its pastoral care offers in times of crisis.
The eight different corona types that the study shows help her with this.
Eight different types in the pandemic
This included
the mindful
: self-actualizers seeking harmony. During the pandemic, they learned to keep their distance from their fellow human beings. Because they work in an area close to the body. Or because they wanted to protect relatives. Most of them are between 25 and 50 years old. Rather older people belong to the
group of the exhausted
. You feel like you are in a hamster wheel: many obligations and worries are nerve-wracking. Parents in need of care have to be looked after, schoolchildren have to be looked after. That also leads to mental illness.
The outraged
inform themselves thoroughly about the changes in the pandemic, reflect and criticize imbalances. You take an active part in socio-political life. For the
confident group
The following applies: The family plays a major role for them. This type of corona has often been married for years, has many children or grandchildren and belongs to associations. The pandemic exposes these people to the essentials in life.
The participants
are always well informed, get along best with clear rules and hope that the progress made in vaccination is the solution.
The participants are pragmatists.
The frugal
are also well off
: aspiring, young, from the middle-class.
You make the best possible use of the corona time for good things.
What
bothers
thinkers
most in the pandemic is the fact that they cannot communicate with like-minded people.
As children of the 68 generation, they criticize a lack of foresight.
It is completely different for
the burned-out
.
You feel a lot of uncertainty and fears, are annoyed about the regulations in the care sector and urgently need a place of retreat.
If you want to test yourself, you can find the Pandem-O-Mat here.
