Changes in intensification of religious involvement during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The emergence of the virus Sars-CoV-2, and subsequent COVID-19 pandemic, caused a global threat to public health. In such challenging and worrying situations it can be expected that people will seek comfort in religion. However, before the pandemic there were never such wide world disruptions of religious practice-because of social distancing regulations, religiosity cannot be practiced in the same way as it was before the pandemic.

Methods

Two anonymous online surveys were conducted of adult Poles, one during the second wave (N = 1072; November 2020) and one during the third wave of the pandemic (N = 1080; April 2021). The survey samples of participants reflected the Polish population structure in terms of age, sex, size of place of residence, education, and pr

SUBMITTER: Boguszewski R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200353 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature