Social Environment and Attitudes toward COVID-19 Anti-Contagious Measures: An Explorative Study from Italy.

ABSTRACT: Social and cultural aspects (i.e., political decision making, discourses in the public sphere, and people's mindsets) played a crucial role in the ways people responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Framed with the Semiotic-Cultural Psychological Theory (SCPT), the present work aims to explore how individual ways of making sense of their social environment affected individuals' perception of government measures aimed at managing the pandemic and the adherence to such measures. An online survey was administered from January to April 2021 to the Italian population. Retrieved questionnaires (N = 378) were analyzed through a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to detect the factorial dimensions underpinning (dis)similarities in the respondents' ways of interpreting their social environment. Ext

SUBMITTER: Gennaro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9962379 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature