Family still matters: Human social motivation across 42 countries during a global pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic social changes for many people, including separation from friends and coworkers, enforced close contact with family, and reductions in mobility. Here we assess the extent to which people's evolutionarily-relevant basic motivations and goals-fundamental social motives such as Affiliation and Kin Care-might have been affected. To address this question, we gathered data on fundamental social motives in 42 countries (N = 15,915) across two waves, including 19 countries (N = 10,907) for which data were gathered both before and during the pandemic (pre-pandemic wave: 32 countries, N = 8998; 3302 male, 5585 female; M _age  = 24.43, SD = 7.91; mid-pandemic wave: 29 countries, N = 6917; 224

SUBMITTER: Pick CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9534541 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature