Delgado-Rodríguez María Jesús, Pinto Hernández Fernando, Tailbot Karin
University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain.
Heliyon. 2024 Jul 31;10(15):e35494. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35494. eCollection 2024 Aug 15.
Many papers have investigated the effects of Covid-19 on people's well-being shortly after the epidemic's outbreak. In this article, we use the joint World Values Survey (WVS) and European Value Study (EVS) 2017-2022 dataset and employ OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) regressions and Coarsened Exact Matching, to evaluate the possible existence of a persistent effect on life satisfaction, two years after the start of the pandemic. We have chosen to focus on the Netherlands -a country which appears among the happiest in the world and for which we have available data- to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic at this later stage. The results of our analysis seem to indicate that the pandemic has contributed to reducing the levels of life satisfaction significantly, particularly among the younger generation. These findings show that specific intervention programmes should be created focusing on different age groups.
许多论文在新冠疫情爆发后不久就研究了其对人们幸福感的影响。在本文中，我们使用2017 - 2022年世界价值观调查（WVS）和欧洲价值观研究（EVS）的联合数据集，并采用普通最小二乘法（OLS）回归和精确匹配法，来评估疫情开始两年后对生活满意度可能存在的持续影响。我们选择聚焦荷兰——一个在世界上幸福感较高且我们有可用数据的国家——以评估新冠疫情在这个后期阶段的影响。我们的分析结果似乎表明，疫情显著降低了生活满意度水平，尤其是在年轻一代中。这些发现表明，应该制定针对不同年龄组的具体干预方案。
