RT Journal Article
T1 The Contagion of Sentiments during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Case of Isolation in Spain.
A1 Iglesias-Sánchez, Patricia Pilar
A1 Vaccaro-Witt, Gustavo Fabian
A1 Cabrera, Francisco Elías
A1 Jambrino-Maldonado, Carmen
K1 COVID-19 - Influencia y consecuencias
K1 COVID-19 - Aspectos psicológicos
K1 Confinamiento (Política sanitaria)
AB This study examines how confinement measures established during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis affected the emotions of the population. For this purpose, public sentiment on social media and digital ecosystems in Spain is analyzed. We identified affective tones towards media and citizens published on social media focusing on six basic emotions: anger, fear, joy, sadness, disgust and uncertainty. The main contribution of this work is the evidence of contagious sentiments and, consequently, the possibility of using this new dimension of social media as a form of a "collective therapy". This paper contributes to understanding the impact of confinement measures in a pandemic from the point of view of emotional health. This analysis provides a set of practical implications that can guide conceptual and empirical work in health crisis management with an alternative approach, especially useful for decision-making processes facing emergency responses and health crises, even in an unprecedented global health crisis such as the traumatic events caused by the COVID-19 disease.
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020-08-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38310
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38310
LA eng
NO Patricia Iglesias Sánchez; Gustavo Fabián Vaccaro Witt; Francisco E. Cabrera; Carmen Jambrino Maldonado (AC). (4/4). 2020. The Contagion of Sentiments during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: The Case of Isolation in Spain International Journal of Environmental Research  and Public Health. 17-16, pp.5918.
NO The research was funded by Programa Operativo FEDER Andalucía 2014–2020 under grant number UMA18-FEDERJA-148 and Plan Propio-Universidad de Málaga
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026