Spending Time with Family Members: How COVID-19 has Changed the Family Member Relationship

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10.2991/assehr.k.201214.488How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Family relationship, divorce rate, COVID-19

Abstract

The epidemic of COVID-19 was first identified in China, Wuhan in December of 2019 and it spread vastly in-land China then further across the world. After the immediate expansion of COVID-19, China initiated a serious of lock-down, quarantine, for over months. For up a month of quarantine, there were some profound changes and continuity in the family relationship, between individual family members. To investigate the influence of the quarantine on the relationship between family members, a questionnaire was created by the author and sent out in Liaoning, China. The data were collected and showed the change in some family relationships before and during the COVID-19. A total of six different relationships were observed and evaluated. Respondents were asked to give the change of state of their relationship with specific family members and a few interactions that have occurred compared with the time before COVID-19. The research proves that there are influence of long-term spending with family members on their relationship. The actual effect varied across types of relationships. The overall trend stays relatively the same with little increases. Struggles in conjugal relationship were observed in this paper and previous paper. The initial hypothesis is a worse relationship would be resulted from a long time quarantine the more exposure of hidden habits and conflicts arose from everyday livings. The result of the questionnaire partially supports the hypothesis, some relationships do shows minor decreases in relationships. Most of the relationships stays the relatively the same and some with positive increases. The part of the results of worsen conjugal relationships provide further evidence to the phenomenon of conflicts occur between husbands and wives.

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