printThe (No)Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Everyday Self-Care:
Consolidating the Effects
Lebedeva-Nesevria N.A.
Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Docent, Prof., Department of Sociology of the Perm State University, Perm, Russia. natnes@list.ru
Sharypova S.Yu.
Cand. Sci. (Sociol.), Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology of the Perm State University, Perm, Russia. sonia.eliseeva@bk.ru
The article was prepared with the support of a grant RSF No. 23-18-00480.
Lebedeva-Nesevria N.A., Sharypova S.Yu. The (No)Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Everyday Self-Care: Consolidating the Effects. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2024. No 6. P. 88-98
The article tests the hypothesis about the consolidation of self-care practices implemented by Russians during the COVID‑19 pandemic in the post-pandemic period. The consensus of various social groups regarding the importance of caring for health and its priority over other values is shown based on materials from in-depth interviews with residents of three Russian megacities (N = 60). A “more attentive attitude” to one’s own health is declared to be an effect of the pandemic. But this is not reflected in real behavioral practices. It is shown based on the RLMS-HSE monitoring panel sample (Waves 27, 29 and 31), that the dynamics of self-care practices in the post-pandemic period had a multi-vector orientation. Examples of habituation, reconfiguration and death of individual self-care practices are described. The preservation of the attributes of a number of health-preserving practices in everyday life “just in case” indicates that Russians perceive the future as risky, and the recurrence of a pandemic situation as probable.
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