Sultana Sayema, Shafique Imran, Majeed Nauman, Jamshed Samia, Shahani Akram Khan, Qureshi Fiza
Saif Kashem & Co., Chartered Accountants, 104 Agrabad Commercial Area, Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Lahore, Pakistan.
Heliyon. 2021 Apr 12;7(4):e06772. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06772. eCollection 2021 Apr.
The outbreak of COVID-19, a profoundly contagious disease has unnerved the world in a calamitous manner from diverse aspects. The present study ventures to expand the literature by exploring loneliness, social isolation, risk perception, financial distress, and psychological distress amidst the lockdown phase of the general population of Bangladesh.
Through an online survey among 474 respondents (between April 17th and April 23rd, 2020), data were collected from the Bangladeshi residents (21 years or above). Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted using IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and Warp-PLS.
Findings suggest a strong positive correlation among the factors and social isolation, risk perception, financial distress are manifested as the predictors of psychological distress. Besides, females, aged people, and lower-income group are found to be more psychologically distressed.
This study yields new insights into the psychological facets of a lower-middle-income earning country, Bangladesh.
新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)的爆发,这一极具传染性的疾病从多方面给世界带来了灾难性的影响。本研究旨在通过探索孟加拉国普通民众在封锁阶段的孤独感、社会隔离、风险认知、经济困境和心理困扰,来丰富相关文献。
在2020年4月17日至4月23日期间,通过对474名受访者进行在线调查,收集了孟加拉国居民(21岁及以上)的数据。使用IBM社会科学统计软件包(SPSS)和Warp-PLS进行描述性和推断性统计分析。
研究结果表明,这些因素之间存在很强的正相关,社会隔离、风险认知、经济困境是心理困扰的预测因素。此外,女性、老年人和低收入群体的心理困扰更为严重。
本研究为中低收入国家孟加拉国的心理层面提供了新的见解。