Centro de Investigaciones en Psicología y Psicopedagogía (CIPP), Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
PLoS One. 2022 Mar 31;17(3):e0266261. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266261. eCollection 2022.
The Coronavirus-19 global pandemic has forced many governments around the world to enforce "lockdowns" to curtail the spread of the virus. Studies conducted in the UK, France, Italy and Brazil have demonstrated that one consequence of these lockdowns is significant distortion to the speed of the passage of time. The current study sought to establish how the passage of time was experienced during the Argentinian lockdown. An online questionnaire was used to measure passage of time judgments for the day and the week, physical activity, satisfaction with social interaction, the extent to which daily routines had changed due to covid and demographic data. The results show that distortions to the passage of time were widely experienced during the lockdown in Argentina. There was a tendency for participants to report time passing more quickly than normal. A faster passage of time was associated with being a woman, of younger age and more physically active. A slower passage of time was therefore associated with being a man, of older age and less physically active. The results indicate that whilst distortions to the passage of time during the covid-19 crisis appear to be a global phenomenon, cross-cultural differences are apparent in the factors which influence temporal experience.
新冠病毒大流行迫使全球许多政府实施“封锁”以遏制病毒传播。在英国、法国、意大利和巴西进行的研究表明，这些封锁的一个后果是时间流逝的速度发生了显著扭曲。本研究旨在确定阿根廷封锁期间时间流逝的体验方式。使用在线问卷来衡量时间判断，包括当天和整个星期的时间、身体活动、社交互动满意度、由于新冠而改变的日常生活程度以及人口统计数据。结果表明，在阿根廷封锁期间，时间流逝的扭曲现象广泛存在。参与者普遍报告说时间比正常情况下流逝得更快。时间流逝得更快与女性、更年轻和更活跃有关。因此，时间流逝得更慢与男性、年龄更大和身体活动量较少有关。结果表明，尽管在新冠危机期间时间流逝的扭曲似乎是一种全球现象，但影响时间体验的因素存在跨文化差异。
