Project „LoneCovid“ – Questions on social networks and their evolution throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (English Version)

In the period before the pandemic, there were also situations in many people’s lives when they needed support from others. As you answer the following questions, please think about the support you received from people you knew in the months before the pandemic but with whom you lost contact during the pandemic.

[Auch in der Zeit vor der Pandemie hat es im Leben vieler Menschen Situationen gegeben, in denen die Unterstützung durch andere benötigt wurde. Bitte denken Sie bei den nächsten Fragen an Unterstützung durch die Personen, die Sie in den Monaten vor der Pandemie kannten, zu denen Sie aber im Laufe der Pandemie den Kontakt verloren haben.]

Which person would have supported you in the months before the pandemic if you had needed help

[Welche Person hätte Sie in den Monaten vor der Pandemie unterstützt, wenn Sie Hilfe benötigt hätten? Damit meinen wir Unterstützung auf emotionaler, praktischer und finanzieller Ebene.]

Open-ended answer [Offene Antwort]

The results of the pretest do not indicate any problems with the questions, so they can be left in their current form.

Eingesetzte kognitive Technik/en:

Difficulty Probing

Testing objectives:
The aim of the cognitive pretest was to determine how easy or difficult it was for the participants to recall their relationships with people with whom they had lost contact during the pandemic.

Findings:
Questions 10 through 15 were asked only of the participant who had indicated in Question 9 that she had lost contact with someone during the COVID-19 pandemic (Participant 07). The participant answered all six questions and referred to the same person in each of them. When asked, Participant 07 explained that it had been “very easy” for her to recall her relationship with that person before and during the pandemic.

Gesellschaft & Soziales/ Beziehungen

Relationships with lost contacts – retrospective