Wang Juanjuan, Sun Yi
Wenyuan Road South No. 1, Xi'an, 710028 Shannxi Province China School of English Teacher Education, Xi'an International Studies University.
Baiyun Street North No. 2, Guangzhou, China Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
Cult Brain. 2022;10(Suppl 1):38-48. doi: 10.1007/s40167-022-00113-4. Epub 2022 Dec 27.
The pace of life, as an indispensable aspect of microscopic culture, has been largely ignored by the academia for a long time. This study proposes that the emergent outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan put people there into a fight against time, leading to a speeding up of their pace of life. This might have affected their temporal perspective, regardless of the macroscopic regulation of Chinese culture. To this end, we designed an online questionnaire to gather data about Wuhan people's pace of life and temporal perspective, both during its lockdown and seven months after the lockdown. The results showed that people in while-lockdown Wuhan displayed a much faster pace of life and also a much higher tendency to choose the Moving Time perspective than people in Wuhan seven months after the lockdown. This suggests that the pace of life is not only regulated by specific culture macroscopically, but also by certain pressing events microscopically, and one's temporal perspective is affected by the changed pace of life.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40167-022-00113-4.
生活节奏作为微观文化中不可或缺的一个方面，长期以来在很大程度上被学术界忽视。本研究提出，武汉新冠疫情的突然爆发使当地居民投入到与时间的赛跑中，导致他们生活节奏加快。这可能影响了他们的时间观，而不论中国文化的宏观调节作用。为此，我们设计了一份在线问卷，以收集武汉居民在封城期间及其封城七个月后的生活节奏和时间观数据。结果显示，封城期间的武汉居民与封城七个月后的武汉居民相比，生活节奏快得多，选择“流动时间”视角的倾向也高得多。这表明，生活节奏不仅在宏观上受特定文化调节，在微观上也受某些紧迫事件影响，而且一个人的时间观会受到生活节奏变化的影响。
网络版包含可在10.1007/s40167-022-00113-4获取的补充材料。
