Does employment determine self-awareness of biases? Sociodemographic aspects of metacognitive self before and during covid-19

Abstract

Two studies (study 1 n = 705, study 2 n = 263) were designed to investigate the importance of being employed vs. unemployed for self – awareness of biases (metacognitive self) before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Sociodemographic expectations that the age, level of education, place of residence (little or large town or huge city people live in) might impact metacognitive self were turned down via results of the pilot study (n = 78). On the contrary, two main studies showed the significant impact of being employed vs. unemployed on metacognitive self. COVID-19 pandemic times enhance the role of being employed for metacognition. Metacognitive – self growth was observed during pandemic. Results are explained in psychological and economic terms.