The effects of the lockdown on children: an empirical analysis

Abstract

The two years of the pandemic, with a series of alternating lockdowns, have certainly influenced the neuro-cognitive development of each of us; even more so the growth of the children who experienced this sad period in a delicate and important moment of their lives. The resulting consequences will be able to be observed and studied in the future, when these now grown children will be able to express their fears, insecurities and everything that has been conditioned by a past that will only be a memory, perhaps to joke about or remember fondly. Meanwhile, in this work we wanted to outline a micro-investigation at a local level to test a possible cognitive-behavioral questionnaire on the evolution of educational and pedagogical processes. The numbers are small, but this moment could be useful to imagine a larger scale investigation using a much larger panel.