“I really don’t know what I would have done without it”: Crafting as a means of stress coping during COVID-19
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
COVID-19 led to several public health restrictions that limited access to leisure, yet leisure was vital to coping with pandemic-related stressors. Crafting is a home-based leisure activity that remained accessible after restrictions were put into place. The purpose of this article is to explore the role of crafting in stress coping during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Data were collected using an online qualitative survey (n = 633) and analyzed using thematic analysis. Crafting served as a “life-saver” among study participants. It created a distraction from COVID-19; it helped participants to stay busy; it contributed to positive feelings; and provided a means of connecting with other crafters and supporting others. However, not all participants described crafting as a coping mechanism during COVID-19. Findings contribute to the growing body of research on leisure as a means of coping with stress and support previous research regarding crafting and well-being.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it