Getting through the crisis together

• Verfasst von: Kulcar, Vanessa [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schneider, Ann-Malin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Getting through the crisis together
• Titelzusatz: do friendships contribute to university students’ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Verf.angabe: Vanessa Kulcar, Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Ann-Malin Schneider
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: 16. Mai 2022
• Umfang: 15 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 11.04.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Frontiers in psychology
• Ort Quelle: Lausanne : Frontiers Research Foundation, 2010
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 13(2022), Artikel-ID 880646, Seite 1-15
• ISSN Quelle: 1664-1078
• DOI: doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.880646
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: COVID-19
• Sach-SW: emerging adulthood
• Sach-SW: relationships
• Sach-SW: resilience
• Sach-SW: social networks
• Sach-SW: social resource
• Sach-SW: wellbeing
• Sach-SW: young adults
• K10plus-PPN: 1922508985

Abstract

Social contacts and social support represent resources that contribute to resilience. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated measures, including contact restrictions, posed challenges for young adults’ social networks, in particular for their friendships. Employing a mixed-method approach, we investigated the pandemic’s effects on friendships and their role in successfully navigating the crisis. We combined a qualitative approach based on narratives and in-depth interviews and a quantitative approach based on online surveys focusing on university students in Austria. Longitudinal data collections allowed investigating changes and developments as the pandemic progressed. Results indicate profound challenges for participants’ friendships and difficulties in both building new and maintaining existing friendships. This also impaired the provision of social support by friends, scattering participants’ social resources and diminishing their resilience rather than strengthening it. Altogether, the results of this longitudinal study suggest a lasting negative effect of the pandemic on friendships for students.