Motivation and preference in isolation: a test of their different influences on responses to self-isolation during the COVID-19 outbreak.

ABSTRACT: This multi-wave study examined the extent that both preference and motivation for time alone shapes ill-being during self-isolation. Individuals in the USA and the UK are self-isolating in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Different motivations may drive their self-isolation: some might see value in it (understood as the identified form of autonomous motivation), while others might feel forced into it by authorities or close others (family, friends, neighbourhoods, doctors; the external form of controlled motivation). People who typically prefer company will find themselves spending more time alone, and may experience ill-being uniformly, or as a function of their identified or external motivations for self-isolation. Self-isolation, therefore, offers a unique opportunity to distinguish t

SUBMITTER: Weinstein N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7277280 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature