168 Chapter 6 define self-perceived changes in social relationships due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Different subcategories of social relationships are hereinafter referred to as: general social relationships, romantic relationships, family relationships, and contact frequency. In addition, participants were asked to answer one qualitative question, “How does corona affect your social network?”. The CQ was added to the first (i.e., Time 1) and second (i.e., Time 2) follow-up assessment after the start of the COVID-19 restrictions. Data analysis Statistical analyses of the quantitative data were performed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Statistics, 2019), version 26. Our sample consisted of 70 participants included before the start of the COVID-19 restrictions in March 2020 (n = 49), and during the COVID-19 restrictions between June 2020 and June 2021 (n = 21). Therefore, independent t-tests were conducted revealing no significant differences between those groups on all study variables. First, we conducted descriptive analyses to examine the quality of social relationships, as well as demographic characteristics, loneliness, and social support, of forensic outpatients before the COVID-19 restrictions. In addition, we conducted independent t-tests to compare social support means of our sample with a norm group consisting of a general population (van Sonderen, 2012). Second, descriptive analyses were conducted to examine whether forensic outpatients perceived changes in quality of social relationships due to the COVID-19 restrictions (i.e., changes in general social relationships, romantic relationships, family relationships, and contact frequency). Third, to examine the self-perceived changes in quality of social relationships due to COVID-19 restrictions over time (i.e., Time 1 vs. Time 2), we conducted Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, as normality tests and Q-Q plots showed that the dependent variables were not normally distributed. Subsequently, qualitative analyses were conducted to provide more in-depth answers to our second research questions (Creswell, Plano Clark, Gutmann, & Hanson, 2003). Qualitative data, consisting of written responses of each participant, was saved and organized in Microsoft Excel. Two authors used thematic analysis to identify, analyze and report emerging (sub)themes in the data (Boeije, 2005; Braun & Clarke, 2006). The
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