Dear ARNOVA members and friends,
You might remember seeing a brief survey from us recently. We wanted to understand how you’re feeling as you face a variety of stay-at-home, social distancing, and remote work challenges, BUT we also didn’t want to ask for too much in an already stressful time. So, in as few questions as possible, we asked about overall feelings, support from employers, and professional resources available; our thinking was that we might identify any common themes in terms of support or resources that were particularly helpful for some, in order to facilitate sharing them with others who reported a lack of support. Our response sample is understandable small, but with an overall n = 109, we think it’s still worth sharing the results.
For our very non-scientific study, we first asked members to rate their overall feelings on a 5-pt Likert-type scale (1 = calm, 5 = anxious). Results suggest a fairly normal distribution, with a very slight lean toward anxious. For me, this begs the question of what the distribution might have been if we had asked the same question 5 months ago.
