The world reeling from a global pandemic : covid-19 and its social and psychological repercussions

Abstract EN

The Covid-19 pandemic which has violently attacked the world this year has been more than a national and a global health threat owing to the multidimensional aspect of its impact.

The pandemic has caused a collective trauma to the human race because its psychological residues are far reaching.

Similar to previous pandemics, Covid-19 has changed habitual life, disrupted systems and routines, and caused a number of psychosocial stressors to humans, including sickness, fear of infection, financial adversities, home confinement and social isolation.

The pandemic has infiltrated through layers of almost every aspect of life and in all of them has deeply affected human psychology and relationships.

The social-distancing measures the pandemic has mandated and the fear of infection it has struck in humans have created distances between individuals.

The aim of this paper is to reveal the impact of the pandemic on the psychology of humans and on their relationships.

The paper examines those two issues through an exposition of several pandemic-related psychosocial stressors and aspects of life impacted and altered by the pandemic, such as education and the use of technology at work and in social life.