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Global Health Econ Sustain Resilience, income, artists, COVID-19

Table 6. Resilience before the pandemic and art activities
Dependent variable Unstandardized Standard Standardized Test Significance
coefficient (B) error coefficient (β) statistic (t) (p)
Productivity 0.097 0.073 0.128 1.314 0.192
New artistic ways and modalities −0.008 0.048 −0.015 −0.156 0.876
Commitment
Stimulating commitment 0.102 0.082 0.122 1.255 0.212
Inhibiting commitment −0.109 0.065 −0.161 −1.662 0.100
Resultant commitment 0.210 0.130 0.158 1.624 0.107
Social connection
Stimulating social connection 0.075 0.071 0.102 1.044 0.299
Inhibiting social connection −0.113 0.050 −0.216 −2.270 0.025*
Resultant social connection 0.172 0.087 0.192 1.971 0.051
Cumulative impact
Cumulative stimulating impact 0.189 0.226 0.084 0.835 0.406
Cumulative inhibiting impact −0.293 0.116 −0.241 −2.516 0.013*
Cumulative resultant impact 0.481 0.290 0.166 1.661 0.100
Note: *Statistically significant (p < 0.05).

Table 7. Resilience during the pandemic and art activities
Dependent variable Unstandardized Standard Standardized Test Significance
coefficient (B) error coefficient (β) statistic (t) (p)
Productivity 0.154 0.060 0.244 2.566 0.012*
New artistic ways and modalities 0.006 0.039 0.016 0.162 0.872
Commitment
Stimulating commitment 0.187 0.067 0.263 2.796 0.006**
Inhibiting commitment −0.312 0.046 −0.552 −6.749 <0.001**
Resultant commitment 0.492 0.099 0.440 4.973 <0.001**
Social connection
Stimulating social connection 0.077 0.061 0.124 1.263 0.209
Inhibiting social connection −0.237 0.036 −0.541 −6.594 <0.001**
Resultant social connection 0.308 0.070 0.399 4.394 <0.001**
Cumulative impact
Cumulative stimulating impact 0.386 0.187 0.204 2.064 0.042*
Cumulative inhibiting impact −0.625 0.079 −0.617 −7.947 <0.001**
Cumulative resultant impact 0.984 0.226 0.405 4.361 <0.001**
Note: *Statistically significant (p<0.05); **highly statistically significant (p<0.01).
4. Discussion pandemic. Being more resilient during the pandemic was
associated with being more productive, more stimulated,
In this largely descriptive study, we sought to investigate the and less inhibited in art activities. Although one may have
impact of COVID-19 on perceived resilience, art activities, speculated this to be the case, our study is the first as far as
and income among South African artists. Our results we could establish that presents empirical evidence of this
provide insight into the serious impact of the pandemic on in a low-to-middle-income country among performance
this understudied sector in South Africa.
and visual artists. The two closest studies on the impact
The resilience of 109 artists in our study decreased of the pandemic on resilience were in other populations,
significantly during the 1 year of the COVID-19 focusing on creative and physical activity, respectively.
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