@article {greenfield_shifts_2021,
	title = {Shifts in ecology, behavior, values, and relationships during the coronavirus pandemic: Survival threat, subsistence activities, conservation of resources, and interdependent families},
	journal = {Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {100017},
	abstract = {
	What are the psychological effects of the coronavirus pandemic? Greenfield{\textquoteright}s Theory of Social Change, Cultural Evolution, and Human Development predicts that when survival concerns augment, and one{\textquoteright}s social world nar- rows toward the family household. life shifts towards activities, values, relationships, and parenting expectations typical of small-scale rural subsistence environments with low life expectancy. Specific predictions were that, during the pandemic, respondents would report intensified survival concerns (e.g., thinking about one{\textquoteright}s own mortality); increased subsistence activities (e.g., growing food); augmented subsistence values (e.g., conserving resources); more interdependent family relationships (e.g., members helping each other obtain food); and par- ents expecting children to contribute more to family maintenance (e.g., by cooking for the family). All hypotheses were confirmed with a large-scale survey in California (N = 1,137) administered after about a month of stay-at- home orders during the coronavirus pandemic; results replicated in Rhode Island (N = 955). We posited that an experience of increased survival concerns and number of days spent observing stay-at-home orders would predict these shifts. A structural equation model confirmed this hypothesis.

},
	issn = {26666227},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100017},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666622721000101},
	author = {Greenfield, Patricia M. and Brown, Genavee and Du, Han}
}
