Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a challenge for all confined populations, dealing with their home resources and suffering changes in their psychological well-being. The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between home conditions (i.e., having children, square meters of the house and square meters of the terrace or similar) and psychological well-being, and to test whether this relationship is mediated by Internet addiction and nostalgia. The sample was composed of 1509 people, aged between 18 to 78 years (67.6% women). Structural Equations Models and 2 × 2 ANOVAs were analyzed. It was found that better home conditions mean greater psychological well-being, and that this relationship is partially mediated, in a negative sense, by Internet addiction and nostalgia, especially after day 45 of confinement and with greater intensity in women. These results provide evidence about how psychological well-being can be preserved during a confinement situation, which may be useful for planning healthy strategies in similar circumstances in the future.
Highlights
One of the most notable events of 2020 is undoubtedly the global pandemic due to the spread of the virus called SARS-CoV2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), which gave rise to the disease known as COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease2019) [1]
Our results suggest that those who lived in smaller places and with fewer children used the Internet more than those who lived in larger homes, with terraces and with more children, perhaps in the hope of being able to reduce the negative emotions they were experiencing, which led them to feel worse psychological well-being (PWB)
In light of the above discussion and considering the consequences of COVID-19 and other previous diseases, implementing programs that promote healthy behaviors should be a priority for all governments, which endeavor to find innovative and successful treatment approaches [63]
Summary
This fact led the governments of different countries around the world to enforce restrictions to contain the spread of the virus, even going as far as exceptional measures such as quarantine. Other countries only recommended that the population be kept as isolated as possible Both isolation and quarantine have proven successful in the past in restoring public health [2], they can evoke controversial emotions such as fear, resentment, and perplexity [3,4]. In this context, Spain was one of the first countries affected in the world. In sight of the increasing number of infected cases, the Spanish government decreed a “state of emergency” on March 15, which lasted until June 21, and maintained a quarantine framework from the beginning of the state of emergency until
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