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A Qualitative Enquiry of the Experience of Music Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Shalini Mittal; Tushar Singh; Durgesh Kumar Upadhyay; Bhawna Tushir
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic became a new normal in today’s world and has changed the consumption pattern and absorption of music and music apps in India. The music industry is relatively non-telecommutable, making working from home difficult during the imposed lockdown and social distancing norms. These conditions had adverse effects on the physical and mental health of music professionals. Therefore, it was crucial to understand the differential impact of COVID-19 on music professionals to find effective solutions and plan for future careers in a changed music industry. Method: The current paper qualitatively explored the experiences of the music professionals participating in this research during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Twelve participants having 8 years of average professional experience (comprising singers, instrumentalists, music teachers, composers, YouTube content creators) were telephonically interviewed during the second wave of COVID-19 in India. The interviews were analysed using thematic content analysis. Results: The thematic content analysis resulted in the emergence of two major themes identified from the participants’ narratives were ‘impact on participating music professionals’ and ‘coping reactions’. Conclusion: The themes emerged from analysis highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on these music professionals and the coping reactions utilized by them. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Dr Uzaina, Dr Rajesh Verma with Dr Ruchi Pandey; individual chapters, the contributors.
Impact of COVID-19 and Social Distancing Measures on Married Women: A Qualitative Enquiry
(Taylor and Francis, 2025) Shalini Mittal; Tushar Singh; Harleen Kaur; Rahul Varma; Sreeja Das; Yogesh Kumar Arya; Sunil K. Verma; Shivantika Sharad; Divya Bhanot; Udisha Merwal; Aishwarya Jaiswal; Benkat Krishna Bharti; Bhawna Tushir
Considering the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic, governments worldwide implemented lockdowns and social distancing measures to contain the spread. Despite these critical measures, the pandemic exacerbated gender inequality, particularly impacting women. With schools and workplaces closed and heightened concerns for family members’ health, women shouldered increased family responsibilities, leading to numerous physical and psychological health challenges. Married women, in particular, faced amplified burdens. This study aims to delve into the experiences of married women during the pandemic. Twenty married women within the age range of 22–45 years residing in the northern part of India were telephonically interviewed about their experiences during the COVID-19-induced lockdown. The interviews recordings were transcribed manually and analysed using thematic content analysis. The emerging themes -emotional and psychological impact, social impact, workload impact, and coping mechanisms -shed light on both the positive and negative outcomes of the pandemic. The results revealed that both working and non-working married women encountered emotional, psychological, and social challenges such as anxiety, social isolation, increased intimacy, and work–family conflict due to heightened domestic responsibilities resulting from the confinement of each family member at home. However, women reported that habituation and forced adjustments became their primary coping mechanisms. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Shalini Mittal, Tushar Singh, Harleen Kaur, Rahul Varma, Sreeja Das, Yogesh Kumar Arya, Sunil K. Verma, Shivantika Sharad, Divya Bhanot, Udisha Merwal, Aishwarya Jaiswal, Benkat Krishna Bharti, and Bhawna Tushir.
Nature of music engagement and its relation to resilient coping, optimism and fear of COVID-19
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Durgesh Kumar Upadhyay; Tushar Singh; Shalini Mittal; Bhawna Tushir
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented lockdowns, a “work from home” culture, social distancing and other measures which badly affected the world populace.Individuals over the globe reported experiencing several psychosocial and psychosomatic problems.Nevertheless, this pandemic allowed us to be with ourselves, to understand the importance of healthy lifestyles and to devote time to our passions and hobbies when we were socially isolated.Against this background, the present study was undertaken to explore the nature of people’s everyday musical engagement and to examine how the experience and functions of music were related to resilient coping, life orientation and fear from COVID-19.In an online survey, a total of 197 participants responded to a questionnaire designed to assess the nature of musical engagement (level of musical training, functional niche of music, listening habits and involvement in musical activities), functions of music (FMS), resilient coping (BRCS), life orientation (LOT-R), and fear of COVID-19 (FCV-19S).Results indicate that for most of the respondents, music listening was a preferred activity during the pandemic which resulted in positive effects on their mood, heart rate and respiratory rates.More than 80 per cent of respondents reported music as a source of pleasure and enjoyment and claimed that it helped to calm them, release their stress, and help them relax.Significant positive correlations were found between the functions of music (memory-based and mood-based), optimism and resilient coping and mood-based functions of music and optimism were found to predict resilient coping among individuals.These results suggest that meaningful and active music engagement may lead to optimism which may result in effective resilient coping during the crisis.Moreover, reflecting upon our everyday musical engagements can promote music as a coping skill. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Asma Parveen and Rajesh Verma; individual chapters, the contributors.
Social support and help-seeking worldwide
(Springer, 2024) Erica Szkody; Anjolee Spence; Asil Özdoğru; Bhawna Tushir; Fennie Chang; Handan AKKAŞ; Ian Sotomayor; Iuliia Pavlova; Ivana Petrovic; Jill Norvilitis; Judith Pena-Shaff; Julia Maney; Kaitlyn Arrow; Laura Rodriguez; Mary Moussa-Rogers; Michael McTighe; Kalu T. U. Ogba; Stephanie Ka Wai Au Yeung; Tara Stoppa; Yuanyuan Yang; Courtney L. Gosnell; Gihane Jérémie-Brink; Joshua J. Van Nostrand; Patrícia Arriaga; Amy Martin; Ana Maksimovic; Andreea Ursu; Arzu Karakulak; Brianna Fitapelli; Brien K. Ashdown; Celia K. Naivar Sen; Chris Chartier; Christina Shane-Simpson; Christopher M. Redker; Cliff McKinney; Danisha Baro; Denisse Manrique-Millones; Eduardo Silva Reis; Eirini Adamopoulou; Eliz Volkan; Ergyul Tair; Ethan Trujillo; Halil Emre Kocalar; Heidi Blocker; Hinza Malik; İrem Metin Orta; Jay Claus Santos; Jon Grahe; Kelly Cuccolo; Liam Wignall; Malorie McLain; Marianna Kosic; Moet Aita; Monique Nash; Ogba Oluchi Miracle; Olivia Christiano; Radosveta Dimitrova; Rahul Varma; Rebecca Mann; Sandesh Dhakal; Sara Estrada-Villalta; Sara Haden; Sarah Hamilton; Selin Metin Camgöz; Shams Aljuberi; Stephanie Chin; Steven Kohn; Sunil K. Verma; Tifani Fletcher; Tushar Singh; Abigail Sanders; Adryana Collado; Akua Adusei; Alaa Itani; Amanda Kaser; Amber Wolfe; Amy Stout; Anahita Akhavan; Angelique Kirton; Ayşe Rezan Çeçen-Eroğul; Bilge Bilir; Camille Dupiton; Caroline Lovett; Chloe Orsini; Christney Kpodo; Christopher Aceto; Clare Redden; Danielle NyKanen; Deniz Yildiz; Emily Lutringer; Ender Sevinç; Erica Baranski; Fahd Khan; Fanli Jia; Gabriel Cramariuc; Guolin Zhang; Hakile Resulbegoviq; Haneen Maree; Harleen Kaur; Jessie Nelson; Jimena Santa Cruz Espinoza; JoAnna Hubbard; John Edlund; John Protzko; Jolie Hoang; Jordan Stork; Jordan Vasu; Jose Verdis Salazar; Karyssa Myhers; Kaylynn Hayward; Kevin Lu; Leisha Beardmore; Liliia Levkiv; Linda Katheryn Hernandez Godoy; Liseth Paulett; María Fernanda Bonilla Gonzalez; Maria Kalantzis; Mariana Rodrigues; Marinés Mejía Álvarez; Marissa Ott; Martha Zlokovich; Mary Kate Brosnan; Mateus Mazzaferro; Melis Yetkin; Mikayla Johnson; Milica Vukelic; Mitchell Clark; Mohammad AlMalik; Neda Fedavi; Noah Means-Simonsen; Onassis Cabrera; Panta Kovacevic; Qingyi Zhang; Rachel Rushing; Rafail Varakis; Randall Richardson; Sara Koch; Savannah Lewis; Scott Barrera; Sifan Zheng; Siyu Liu; Sophia Papka; Sreeja Das; Srijana Ghimire; Tanya Verma; Taylor Hillman; Ugur C. Ozkusen; Xinyi Zhang; Yiwen Gu; Bryce Redd; Cory J. Cascalheira
Social support has long been associated with positive physical, behavioral, and mental health outcomes. However, contextual factors such as subjective social status and an individual’s cultural values, heavily influence social support behaviors (e.g., perceive available social support, accept support, seek support, provide support). We sought to determine the current state of social support behaviors and the association between these behaviors, cultural values, and subjective social support across regions of the world. Data from 6,366 participants were collected by collaborators from over 50 worldwide sites (67.4% or n = 4292, assigned female at birth; average age of 30.76). Our results show that individuals cultural values and subjective social status varied across world regions and were differentially associated with social support behaviors. For example, individuals with higher subjective social status were more likely to indicate more perceived and received social support and help-seeking behaviors; they also indicated more provision of social support to others than individuals with lower subjective social status. Further, horizontal, and vertical collectivism were related to higher help-seeking behavior, perceived support, received support, and provision of support, whereas horizontal individualism was associated with less perceived support and less help-seeking and vertical individualism was associated with less perceived and received support, but more help-seeking behavior. However, these effects were not consistently moderated by region. These findings highlight and advance the understanding of how cross-cultural complexities and contextual distinctions influence an individual's perception, processing, and practice of social support embedded in the changing social landscape. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024.
The social psychology of COVID-19 stigma
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Divya Bhanot; Sunil K. Verma; Shivantika Sharad; Benkat Krishna Bharti; Tushar Singh; Shalini Mittal; Bhawna Tushir
The spread of infectious diseases and the associated stigmatisation of people is an evidenced history. The present chapter is an attempt to explain the stigma of race, class and religion in India with the help of the established intergroup theories of social psychology to highlight the psychosocial consequences resulting out of an outbreak of infectious diseases, i.e., COVID-19. In order to present the implicational value of intergroup theories in explaining the practices of COVID-19-generated stigmatisation of people in India on the basis of their belongingness to particular race, class and religion, a systemic review of the COVID-19-generated stigmatisation of people and groups was carried out. Anecdotal presentations of stigmatised treatments against the several social groups in India are explained from the vantage of intergroup theoretical approaches of social psychology. In our review, intergroup theories of social psychology were found instrumental in explaining COVID-19-generated stigmatised treatments directed against people based on race, class and religion. Intergroup Emotions Theory could explain the stigmatisation of Northeast Indians. Scapegoat theory was found instrumental in explaining the stigmatisation of poor and migrants. Stigmatisation against Muslims could be justifiably explained in the light of social identity theory. At last, the chapter attempts to make certain recommendations aimed to reduce or combat negative psychosocial responses to infectious diseases like COVID-19. © 2025 selection and editorial matter, Asma Parveen and Rajesh Verma; individual chapters, the contributors.