On August 7, Elena Nekhorosheva and Daria Kasatkina from the Laboratory of Urban Health and Wellbeing at the MCU Research Institute of Urban Studies and Global Education participated in the 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference “From Vulnerability to Resilience & Wellbeing during the Pandemic: Advances in Existential Positive Psychology.”
The conference was on August 6—8 and dedicated to the urgent issue of existential positive psychology: how can a human cope with challenges? Scholars from all over the world tried to answer the questions:
MCU researchers and Anastasia Klimochkina from the School of Psychology at Higher School of Economics presented their report “Meaning and Support in Maintaining Well-being during a Pandemic” at the Stream C session “Role of Meaning in Coping with the Pandemic.” The research focuses on Moscow residents’ wellbeing during the rise in COVID-19 cases in spring and autumn 2020. The research comes to the following results: