Escaping the Reality of the Pandemic: The Role of Hopelessness and Dissociation in COVID-19 Denialism

Conti, Chiara; Veneziani, Giorgio; Bagni, Claudio; Campedelli, Virginia; Casale, Antonio Del; Lai, Carlo

doi:10.3390/jpm12081302

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“…Относительный приоритет автономии личности над общественными потребностями во многих западных странах обусловлен доминирующей в этих государствах идеологией примата личной свободы и собственной траектории поведения человека. Между тем в последнее время западные государства, следуя концепции Nanny State, все чаще прибегают к использованию инструментов сдерживания деструктивного поведения своих граждан в отношении своего здоровья 15 .…”

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Medical denialism: the concept, origins and possibilities of law in its overcoming

Volkova

2023

Вестник Университета имени О.Е. Кутафина (МГЮА)

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The article is devoted to the study of such a phenomenon as medical denialism and legal mechanisms to overcome it. The mass nature of the movements of antivaxers, HIV and covid denialism indicates the relevance of this problem in our country, and therefore it is important to investigate the reasons underlying medical denial. No less relevant is the question of the effectiveness of legal influence on these processes: can legal imperatives properly influence people’s behavior in relation to their health? Or should the state involve other social regulators to counter the destructive manifestations of medical denialism? The search for answers to these questions involves the use of not only legal tools, but also the involvement of an arsenal of other sciences — medicine, psychology, philosophy.

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“…URL: https://lawphil.net/ 15. Путило Н. В., Волкова Н. С. Феномен Nanny state: новый вид государства или модификация государственного патернализма в современных условиях?…”

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Medical denialism: the concept, origins and possibilities of law in its overcoming

Volkova

2023

Вестник Университета имени О.Е. Кутафина (МГЮА)

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“…Literature focusing on psychological factors such as attitudes [ 15 ], sense of control [ 16 ] and risk perception [ 17 , 18 ] suggests that adherence to pandemic contrast measures depends on their perceived efficacy [ 3 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ], individual perceptions of stress [ 24 ], individual coping strategies [ 25 , 26 ], perceived self-efficacy [ 27 ], individual health beliefs [ 28 ], and perceived susceptibility to the virus [ 29 ]. Moreover, Ciacchella and colleagues [ 30 ] found that nonadherence was predicted by higher levels of dissociation, which in turn predicted low levels of sense of community and high levels of hopelessness. Such results were confirmed even in the Italian context.…”

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

Gennaro

Reho

Marinaci

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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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. Extracted factors were interpreted as markers of Latent Dimensions of Sense (LDSs) organizing respondents’ worldviews. Finally, three regression models tested the role of LDSs in supporting the individual satisfaction with the measures adopted to contain the social contagion defined at national level, individual adherence to the containment measures and the perception of the population’s adherence to them. Results highlight that all the three measures are associated with a negative view of the social environment characterized by a lack of confidence in public institutions (health system, government), public roles and other people. Findings are discussed on the one hand to shed light on the role of deep-rooted cultural views in defining personal evaluations of government measures and adherence capacity. On the other hand, we suggest that taking into account people’s meaning-making can guide public health officials and policy makers to comprehend what favors or hinders adaptive responses to emergencies or social crises.

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“…Hopelessness can be a distressing consequence of the prolonged stress experienced by HCWs during the pandemic [33,44]. The overwhelming number of critically ill patients, limited resources, and witnessing high mortality rates can create a sense of despair and hopelessness.…”

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Alexithymia, Burnout, and Hopelessness in a Large Sample of Healthcare Workers during the Third Wave of COVID-19 in Italy

De Berardis,

Ceci,

Zenobi

et al. 2023

Brain Sciences

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In the present study, we aimed to assess the frequency of and the relationships between alexithymia, burnout, and hopelessness in a large sample of healthcare workers (HCWs) during the third wave of COVID-19 in Italy. Alexithymia was evaluated by the Italian version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and its subscales Difficulty in Identifying Feelings (DIF), Difficulty in Describing Feelings (DDF), and Externally Oriented Thinking (EOT), burnout was measured with the scales emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA) of the Maslach Burnout Test (MBI), hopelessness was measured using the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and irritability (IRR), depression (DEP), and anxiety (ANX) were evaluated with the Italian version of the Irritability‚ Depression‚ Anxiety Scale (IDA). This cross-sectional study recruited a sample of 1445 HCWs from a large urban healthcare facility in Italy from 1 May to 31 June 2021. The comparison between individuals that were positive (n = 214, 14.8%) or not for alexithymia (n = 1231, 85.2%), controlling for age, gender, and working seniority, revealed that positive subjects showed higher scores on BHS, EE, DP IRR, DEP, ANX, DIF, DDF, and EOT and lower on PA than the not positive ones (p < 0.001). In the linear regression model, higher working seniority as well as higher EE, IRR, DEP, ANX, and DDF scores and lower PA were associated with higher hopelessness. In conclusion, increased hopelessness was associated with higher burnout and alexithymia. Comprehensive strategies should be implemented to support HCWs’ mental health and mitigate the negative consequences of alexithymia, burnout, and hopelessness.

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Escaping the Reality of the Pandemic: The Role of Hopelessness and Dissociation in COVID-19 Denialism

Cited by 8 publications

References 50 publications

Medical denialism: the concept, origins and possibilities of law in its overcoming

Medical denialism: the concept, origins and possibilities of law in its overcoming

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

Alexithymia, Burnout, and Hopelessness in a Large Sample of Healthcare Workers during the Third Wave of COVID-19 in Italy

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