Psychological Research Methods and Coping Mechanisms during Covid-19 Lockdown

Introduction to Psychological
Research Methods and Data Analysis

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................3
Research Methodology....................................................................................................................5
Data Collection and Analysis..........................................................................................................6
Discussion........................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
Recommendations............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Covid-19 lockdown was a crucial time in which everyone was required to stay within
their houses and all their regular activities came to a pause. This made a significant impact on
psychological conditions of the individuals and this is why different coping mechanism was
adopted by individuals to cope with Covid-19. Coping mechanism is concerned with strategies
that individuals use to face trauma or stress and these strategies help in managing difficult
emotions. Coping mechanism also help people to adjust in difficult events and Covid-19
mechanism was one such difficult event that required individuals to work on their psychological
state and well-being of individuals. There were several reasons in Covid-19 lockdown and
mainly these reasons involved isolation in which people were not able to meet others in
personally. Along with this, break from regular activities is also among reasons to cause stress
during Covid-19 lockdown. In this research literature review will be carried out and this involves
reviewing existing literature related to the topic of discussion. Followed by this research will
include methodology that creates basis of how research have been carried out and later collection
and analysis of data will be included in paper. This will lead to drawing conclusion for the
research.
Aim: To investigate most prevalent coping mechanism in relation with Covid-19 lockdown and
recommend positive coping strategies.
Research Question: What coping mechanism in most prevalent in relation to the COVID-19
lockdown and is the overall message recommending positive coping strategies?
Rationale: The reason behind selection of Covid-19 lockdown to investigate most prevalent
coping mechanism was that, it is only event and situation that everyone has experienced. This
event is recent and everyone can relate to Covid-19 lockdown in some or other way.
Literature Review
According to Serafini and et.al., 2020 Covid-19 lockdown was a strategy to cope with
increasing infection of virus and was done to break chain of infection in people. Lockdown was
fundamentally successful and cause reduction in infection of Covid-19 and its spread. However
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