TY  - JOUR
A1  - Neugebauer, Martin
A1  - Patzina, Alexander
A1  - Dietrich, Hans
A1  - Sandner, Malte
T1  - Two pandemic years greatly reduced young people’s life satisfaction: evidence from a comparison with pre-COVID-19 panel data
T2  - European Sociological Review
N2  - How much did young people suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but they often lack a comparison group that was unaffected by the pandemic, and the observation window is usually short. Here, we compared the 2-year development of life satisfaction of German high school students during COVID-19 (N = 2,698) with the development in prepandemic cohorts (N = 4,834) with a difference-in-differences design. We found a decline in life satisfaction in winter 2020/2021 (Cohen’s d = -0.40) that was approximately three times stronger than that in the general population and persisted until winter 2021/2022. Young people found some restrictions particularly burdensome, especially travel restrictions, bans on cultural events, and the closure of bars/clubs.
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-ohm/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2436
SN  - 0266-7215
VL  - 40
IS  - 5
SP  - 872
EP  - 886
PB  - Oxford University Press (OUP)
ER  -