After more than a year-and-a half of (totally justifiable) complaining about how dirty this pandemic has done us, it turns out that many of us secretly thrived during isolation of quarantine. New findings assert that a large chunk of adults actually enjoyed the solitude that came from quarantine during the early days of the pandemic.
The study, published in the Frontiers in Psychology, surveyed 2000 people (teenagers and adults) in the U.K. during the summer of 2020, just after the country’s first major lockdown, according to a Eurekalert report. Participants were asked a series of questions that gauged how social isolation affected their wellbeing, and it turned out that a whole lot (~43%) of them felt like they actually benefited from spending so much alone time. Among other things, people reported that quarantine made them feel more connected to themselves and gave them a sense of self-sufficiency because they got to learn new skills (apparently we all decided to learn how to bake at the same time).
