التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases. |
| المؤلفون: |
Idoiaga Mondragon, Nahia, Gil de Montes, Lorena, Valencia, Jose |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Health Psychology; Jun2017, Vol. 22 Issue 7, p951-960, 10p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
EBOLA virus disease prevention, PREVENTION of epidemics, CONSUMER attitudes, CONTENT analysis, EMOTIONS, DATA analysis software, ATTITUDES toward illness |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
SPAIN |
| مستخلص: |
This study examined the collective image of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak, to understand how people incorporate this epidemic in their everyday thinking. A free association exercise elicited by Ebola was answered by 294 people from Spain and the content was analysed using Alceste software. First, results showed that Ebola was represented as inherently African. Second, it was also depicted as a global threat creating fear. People also felt anger, and they blamed political authorities and the mass media for the failure to manage this crisis. Finally, this research underlines the importance of the social representations to understand how current outbreaks are cognitively represented and emotionally faced as a key factor to appropriately manage future epidemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
