Association of Lifestyle and Flourishing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan

Overview

Journal Front Psychol

Date 2024 Jun 14

PMID 38873516

Authors

Tomoyoshi Shibata

Yui Yamaoka

Nobutoshi Nawa

Hisaaki Nishimura

Yuna Koyama

Jin Kuramochi

Takeo Fujiwara

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Abstract

Introduction: COVID-19 have changed our lifestyle and little is known how our lifestyle associated with flourishing during COVID-19. This study examined the association between lifestyle, including sleep time, drinking, and smoking, and flourishing during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.

Methods: We used the population-based study, Utsunomiya COVID-19 seROprevalence Neighborhood Association (U-CORONA) survey conducted in November 2021 to examine the association between lifestyle such as sleeping time, drinking and smoking, and flourishing ( = 473). Flourishing was assessed with the flourishing index, a 10-item multidimensional scale with five domains. Multivariate linear regression analysis was performed adjusted for sex, age, income, and education.

Results: We found that the flourishing index was significantly lower in the group that slept less than 6 h than in the group that slept 6-8 h (coef = -0.49, SE = 0.17, < 0.01). We also found that drinking once to several times/week showed higher flourishing than those who almost never drink (coef = 0.57, SE = 0.19, < 0.01). Smoking was not associated with flourishing.

Discussion: Sleep duration and drinking habit, but not smoking, may be important for flourishing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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