47% of young people aged 18 to 30 find their morale degraded after 3 weeks of confinement, according to an OpinionWay survey for 20 Minutes #MoiJeune – Free-Photo / Pixabay
Three weeks that France is confined and the young people live it rather badly. Almost one in two (47% *) believes that their morale has deteriorated in the past week, according to an OpinionWay poll for 20 minutes
#MeYoung. “We expected a decline, but not of this magnitude, reacts Eléonore Quarré, opinion director at OpinionWay. This can partly be explained by the fact that young people combine the double punishment of low income and small housing. “It is certainly not the
Covid-19 which frightens them, since on a scale of 1 to 10, the average note of concern for their own health is 3.6, against 6.9 for the health of their loved ones.
Is confinement, the health and economic crisis inevitable? No. “Young people see this period as an opportunity for transformation,” analyzes Eléonore Quarré. They want to take charge of their lives, less suffer. 54% of them want to change something in their life after the crisis. And if asked to look at a larger scale, 78% of young people want the world to work differently. Among them 32% of pessimists who think that this will not be the case and 46% of optimists or pragmatists who believe that yes, the world must function differently and that yes, it will indeed be the case. The future will tell us which ones were right.
* Barometer #MeYoung, Confined and tomorrow? – “20 Minutes” / OpinionWay, produced online from April 3 to 6, 2020, with a representative sample of 604 young people aged 18 to 30, using the quota method.
If you are between 18 and 30 years old, you can take part in the “#MoiJeune” project, a series of surveys launched by 20 minutes and built with and for young people. All the information to register online
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