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  • The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented global health crisis.
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  • Understanding individual and collective adaptation mechanisms is crucial.

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  • To explore how participants experienced the Covid-19 crisis as a rupture.
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  • To analyze the role of imagination in constructing new meanings and future outlooks.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of collective diary data from 17 participants.
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  • Application of sociocultural psychology concepts to understand imagination's role.

Main Results:

  • The pandemic crisis was experienced as a rupture across temporality, spatiality, sociality, and embodiment.
  • Imagination served critical functions in adaptation stages: experiencing rupture, meaning-making, distanciation, symbolic mobility, and temporal projection.
  • Participants utilized symbolic resources to interpret the situation, cope with uncertainty, and envision future possibilities.

Conclusions:

  • Imagination is central to repairing ruptures caused by crises, facilitating semantic reconfiguration.
  • Imagination guides future-oriented actions and aids in adapting to novel and disruptive situations.
  • The study highlights imagination's adaptive role in personal and collective responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.