Psycho – Emotional Impact of the Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic denotes, not just public physical health emergency, but also a serious mental health problem. In order to control the spread of COVID 19 various state and central Governments implemented the lockdown measures, which would potentially damage the mental well – being of the population. The lockdown measures and quarantine impact can have a larger effects in mental health for a long period of time (Lorena, 2020). There is a strong need to gain knowledge about how this pandemic has psychologically and emotionally impacted the general population, so there is a need to draft this article to detail about the psycho – emotional impact of the COVID 19 pandemic. For this purpose, systematic review was employed and prisma model was used to review the previous research papers. After final screening process, 41 articles were extracted and studied in detail. From which 6 sub themes were extracted and it is been found that the pandemic quarantine and the lockdown effects have inversely effected the general and subjective well – being. The covid 19 pandemic had various psychological effect for different people depending upon their age group and the nature of the work they do.