Real-time individual benefit from social interactions before and during the lockdown: the crucial role of personality, neurobiology and genes

Monninger, Maximilian; Aggensteiner, Pascal-M; Pollok, Tania M; Reinhard, Iris; Hall, Alisha S M; Zillich, Lea; Streit, Fabian; Witt, Stephanie-H; Reichert, Markus; Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich; Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas; Tost, Heike; Brandeis, Daniel; Banaschewski, Tobias; Holz, Nathalie E

doi:10.1038/s41398-022-01799-z

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Monninger, M., Aggensteiner, P.-M., Pollok, T. M., Reinhard, I., Hall, A. S. M., Zillich, L., Streit, F., Witt, S.-H., Reichert, M., Ebner-Priemer, U., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Tost, H., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., & Holz, N. E. (2022). Real-time individual benefit from social interactions before and during the lockdown: the crucial role of personality, neurobiology and genes. Translational Psychiatry, 12, 28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01799-z

Abstract

Social integration is a major resilience factor for staying healthy. However, the COVID-19-pandemic led to unprecedented restrictions in social life. The consequences of these social lockdowns on momentary well-being are yet not fully understood. We investigated the affective benefit from social interactions in a longitudinal birth cohort. We used two real-time, real-life ecological momentary assessments once before and once during the initial lockdown of the pandemic (N = 70 participants; n~6800 observations) capturing the protective