COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity: the cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania

Voicu, Bogdan; Peral, Edurne Bartolomé; Rusu, Horațiu; Rosta, Gergely; Comşa, Mircea; Vasile, Octavian-Marian; Coromina, Lluís; Tufiș, Claudiu D.

doi:10.1080/14616696.2020.1852439

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“…More than half of the HCPs also experienced all positive feelings with the most frequently felt being solidarity, a feeling that has also been reported for the general population in different countries during this health emergency (Voicu et al, 2021). Factors associated with higher experience of these emotional states included female gender and older age.…”

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confidence: 53%

Psychological impact in Healthcare Professionals during emergencies: the Italian experience with COVID-19

Pisanu¹,

Benedetto²,

Infurna³

et al. 2021

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The COVID-19 outbreak imposed an overwhelming workload as well as emotional burdens on healthcare professionals (HCPs). In May 2020, an online survey was administered to HCPs in Italy to assess the pandemic’s psychological impact and to investigate possible predictive factors that led to individual differences. Female and younger respondents, especially those operating in northern Italy experienced more frequently negative emotional states such as irritability, anxiety, loneliness, and insecurity. However, positive feelings, first of all solidarity, were also reported especially by female and older workers. The majority of the negative as well as positive emotional states were experienced almost equally by both doctors and nurses, and independently of the operational unit in which they operated. Our findings can provide useful information in planning more tailored psychological interventions to support this category of workers.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Psychological impact in Healthcare Professionals during emergencies: the Italian experience with COVID-19

Pisanu¹,

Benedetto²,

Infurna³

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…The refugee crisis has again challenged European solidarity by questioning shared responsibility at the macro level, the distribution of asylum seekers, and individual actions of solidarity (Kalogeraki, 2018;Lahusen and Theiss, 2019;Maggini and Fernández, 2019). The COVID-19 crisis is also expected to affect the components of solidarity (Voicu et al, 2021). In the last decade, in conjunction with economic and refugee crises, the debate has paid particular attention to the transnational dimension of solidarity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Studies on acts of solidarity (Kalogeraki, 2018;Lahusen and Theiss, 2019;Maggini and Fernández, 2019) have tended to focus on cooperative behaviors or behaviors oriented toward other individuals and specific social categories that are considered in need, directly practiced by people, or mediated by organizations (i.e., civil society organizations, NGOs, volunteer groups, etc.). While solidarity involves collective responsibilities toward communities at a more generic level, it might also have delimited scope toward specific groups and needs (Lahusen and Grasso, 2018;Mishra and Rath, 2020;Voicu et al, 2021). Feelings of reciprocity, willingness to help, and concern for others' lives can therefore be addressed to unprivileged members of society, to people included in one's close network, as well as to (imagined) people living further away, as well as to the generic humankind.…”

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Can We Compare Solidarity Across Europe? What, Why, When, and How to Assess Exact and Approximate Equivalence of First- and Second-Order Factor Models

Lomazzi

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Although measurement invariance is widely considered a precondition for meaningful cross-sectional comparisons, substantive studies have often neglected evaluating this assumption, thereby risking drawing conclusions and making theoretical generalizations based on misleading results. This study offers a theoretical overview of the key issues concerning the measurement and the comparison of socio-political values and aims to answer the questions of what must be evaluated, why, when, and how to assess measurement equivalence. This paper discusses the implications of formative and reflective approaches to the measurement of socio-political values and introduces challenges in their comparison across different countries. From this perspective, exact and approximate approaches to equivalence are described as well as their empirical translation in statistical techniques, such as the multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) and the frequentist alignment method. To illustrate the application of these methods, the study investigates the construct of solidarity as measured by European Values Study (EVS) and using data collected in 34 countries in the last wave of the EVS (2017–2020). The concept is captured through a battery of nine items reflecting three dimensions of solidarity: social, local, and global. Two measurement models are hypothesized: a first-order factor model, in which the three independent dimensions of solidarity are correlated, and a second-order factor model, in which solidarity is conceived according to a hierarchical principle, and the construct of solidarity is reflected in the three sub-factors. In testing the equivalence of the first-order factor model, the results of the MGCFA indicated that metric invariance was achieved. The alignment method supported approximate equivalence only when the model was reduced to two factors, excluding global solidarity. The second-order factor model fit the data of only seven countries, in which this model could be used to study solidarity as a second-order concept. However, the comparison across countries resulted not appropriate at any level of invariance. Finally, the implications of these results for further substantive research are discussed.

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“…News related to COVID-19 covered several aspects of the crisis: health, well-being, the economic situation, and the social and psychological consequences of the pandemic. One of the positive effects of the pandemic seems to have been the strengthening of solidarity among people (Voicu et al, 2020). This topic has intensively been studied in the last few decades from crisis to crisis (Delanty, 2008;Habermas, 2013;Verhaegen, 2018;Gerhards et al, 2019;Wallaschek, 2019;.…”

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Dominant Christian narratives of solidarity during the COVID pandemic in Hungary

Vancsó

Kmetty²

2021

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In crises, the importance of solidarity becomes crucial. Religious organizations, as members of civil society, have an essential role in promoting and participating in solidarity action. Dominant religious organizations thus can have the power to shape the image of solidarity in a crisis and, by creating a dominant narrative, to strengthen their social position. In times of crisis, hidden religious narratives could gain visibility, and religious authority could also gain more power. But in the previous migration crisis, religious actors failed to fulfill their solidarity role actively, and were unable to strengthen their public position in Hungary. We used both quantitative and qualitative text analysis methods to understand the role of religious actors in solidarity action during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have blended these methods with network analysis techniques to present the role of different actors in this communication process. Our results show that the appearance of religious or church-related actors does not infer a religious interpretation, per se. Many articles mentioned church-related organizations as good examples of solidarity, but this was not embedded into the religious narrative. Religious actors mentioned together with political actors were more visible in online media, but the lack of the former’s own voice also shows the decreasing power of religious authority. However, we found religious narratives that called for new understanding and interpretations of the pandemic and its effect on society and the future, but those interpretations were represented mainly by Pope Francis, and echoed by only a few Hungarian actors, showing the lack of dominant and politically independent religious narratives about social issues in the media or the public sphere.

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COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity: the cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Psychological impact in Healthcare Professionals during emergencies: the Italian experience with COVID-19

Psychological impact in Healthcare Professionals during emergencies: the Italian experience with COVID-19

Can We Compare Solidarity Across Europe? What, Why, When, and How to Assess Exact and Approximate Equivalence of First- and Second-Order Factor Models

Dominant Christian narratives of solidarity during the COVID pandemic in Hungary

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