Covid-19: Psychological Impact on Family Environment

Abstract

Along with physical health, mental health also plays an important role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It has significantly affected people’s routine life, however, it also gave us an extended time to be together with our family and loved ones. An attempt to conduct research on the family environment would help us know the impact of self-isolation. Participants (N = 300) involving males and females between the age group of 18 to 50 years shall be studied. Family Environment Scale (FES) by Dr. Harpreet Bhatia and Dr. N.K. Chandra had been adapted for this study. Samples are collected from different states of India using Google Forms due to the COVID-19 fear and lockdown. In the present study, three variables will be investigated on the basis of gender, occupation, and family type. ANOVA and t-test will be applied for data analysis. The results of the family environment revealed that the impact of COVID-19 in context to gender was observed in the area of Cohesion, Expressiveness, Acceptance and Caring. Thereby, in family type the significant difference was witnessed only in the area of Expressiveness while occupational type noticed a significant change in the area of Cohesion, Expressiveness, Conflict and Acceptance and Caring.