The Impact of COVID-19 on the Majority Population, Ethno-Racial 					Minorities, and Immigrants

Politi, Emanuele; Lueders, Adrian; Sankaran, Sindhuja; Anderson, Joel; Assche, Jasper Van; Spiritus-Beerden, Eva; Roblain, Antoine; Phalet, Karen; Derluyn, Ilse; Verelst, An; Green, Eva G. T.

doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000460

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“…By defining threat as the psychological appraisal of external or internal stressors, Politi et al (2021) argued that the COVID-19 outbreak threatened several spheres of people’s life, ranging from personal fears of getting the virus to collective concerns about society. We believed that the COVID-19 outbreak provoked an acute work stress increase too, because containment measures forced people to adjust to new working conditions (Rudolph et al, 2021), thereby threatening their professional life.…”

Section: Teachers’ Threat Appraisals and Emotional Exhaustionmentioning

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Teachers navigating distance learning during COVID-19 without feeling emotionally exhausted: The protective role of self-efficacy.

Soncini¹,

Politi²,

Matteucci³

2021

School Psychology

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In the context of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, teachers faced unprecedented challenges and threats while implementing distance learning. Consequently, teachers may have experienced emotional exhaustion. The aim of our study was threefold: To explore teachers' threat appraisals, to investigate the relation between teachers' threat appraisals and their emotional exhaustion, and to examine processes protecting teachers from emotional exhaustion. Self-efficacy belief, especially, may have driven teachers' perceptions of distance learning as an opportunity (i.e., distance learning strengths), rather than an impediment (i.e., distance learning weakness) to teaching. During the first wave of COVID-19, Italian teachers (N = 1,036) filled in an online survey. A mixed-method design was used to address our three research aims. Findings indicated that, above and beyond other COVID-19 threats, one third of teachers reported worries, fears, and concerns related to their job (i.e., job-related threats). Furthermore, those who mentioned job-related threats experienced greater emotional exhaustion. Finally, teachers' self-efficacy was related to lower emotional exhaustion both directly and indirectly via teachers' perceptions of distance learning. Indeed, distance learning weaknesses (but not distance learning strengths) mediated the negative relationship between self-efficacy and emotional exhaustion. Altogether, our findings encourage reflection on possible interventions to reduce teachers' job-related threats and help them navigate distance learning effectively. Impact and ImplicationsDue to the widespread implementation of distance learning, teachers have widely borne the brunt of COVID-19 outbreak. This paper explores teacher-specific threats experienced during school closure, also explaining how self-efficacy can effectively help teachers to navigate distance learning without feeling emotionally exhausted. Targeted training, resources, and assistance should be set up to support teachers psychologically and practically, transforming distance learning into an opportunity and thereby reducing emotional exhaustion.

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Section: Teachers’ Threat Appraisals and Emotional Exhaustionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teachers navigating distance learning during COVID-19 without feeling emotionally exhausted: The protective role of self-efficacy.

Soncini¹,

Politi²,

Matteucci³

2021

School Psychology

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“…Prolonged for weeks, and even for over 6 months (see Costabel, 2020 on the case of Argentina), these forms of containment have been associated with a deterioration in the population’s mental health, although not in all contexts, and with strong disparities between social groups by age, gender, and socio-economic status. In particular, it has been reported that some critical features increase in the most vulnerable groups, for example, those with pre-existing mental health conditions, as well as in women, the economically under-privileged and the youngest (Bellotti et al, 2021; Daly et al, 2020; Kuhn et al, 2021; Mohler-Kuo et al, 2021; Politi et al, 2021; Singh et al, 2020).…”

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How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory

Vacchiano

2022

Sociological Research Online

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Two years after the first wave of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), one fact seems to be emerging clearly: lockdowns affect mental health differently across generations. This article uses data collected before and after the first wave of COVID-19 on a sample of 5,859 respondents, showing that the first lockdown worsened the mental health of the younger generations (Gen Y and Gen Z) in particular. Given that the older generations are considered the most vulnerable in this global pandemic, this may seem surprising. However, our data reveal that the pandemic outbreak raised very different concerns in different generations. While older people appear to be worried about the economy and their own health, younger people were more concerned about their lifestyles and, generally, their social relationships. This suggests that some of the mechanisms behind the exacerbation of younger people’s mental health may lie at the intersection of these two issues. On one hand, a life lived essentially online undermines all those processes of social capital activation that occur through leisure and face-to-face encounters, from which Gen Z may have suffered in particular. On the other hand, not only has the pandemic added further uncertainty to Generation Y’s career paths but working from home has also forced them to reorganize family routines and construct entirely new ones with colleagues using computers and smartphones. The article reflects on the upheavals of work and leisure to foster research on networks, social capital, and mental health in this period of a continuing pandemic.

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“…These imply that contextually induced conflicts commonly existed for Asian and Native American groups during the pandemic. Such conflicts would potentially increase hostility toward these two groups ( Nir et al, 2022 ) and reduce the financial and health aids they could receive from society during the pandemic ( Adler et al, 2022 ; Politi et al, 2021 ). Our findings thereby advocate for monitoring public opinion and sentiment online to better cope with the disparities in reality during the pandemic.…”

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Communicating Concerns, Emotional Expressions, and Disparities on Ethnic Communities on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Structural Topic Modeling Approach

2023

American Behavioral Scientist

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Ethnic and racial disparities in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic raise significant concerns. This study analyzes social media discourses toward four ethnic communities in the United States during the pandemic and reveals disparities in pandemic experiences among them. A total of 488,029 tweets mentioning one of the four ethnic communities, that is, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, were investigated by a structural topic modeling approach with emotional expressions and time as covariates in the topic model. The results demonstrate that discourses about Asian, Hispanics, and Native American communities were often induced by pandemic-related events, concerning topics beyond one’s community, and reflecting an experience of implicit racism and an adoption of technical supports from health systems. Meanwhile, discourses about Blacks were racially related, discussing topics within the community, and reflecting an experience of explicit racism and an adoption of psychological supports from ingroup. We discuss the implications of our findings on ethnic health disparities.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Majority Population, Ethno-Racial Minorities, and Immigrants

Cited by 25 publications

References 86 publications

Teachers navigating distance learning during COVID-19 without feeling emotionally exhausted: The protective role of self-efficacy.

Teachers navigating distance learning during COVID-19 without feeling emotionally exhausted: The protective role of self-efficacy.

How the First COVID-19 Lockdown Worsened Younger Generations’ Mental Health: Insights from Network Theory

Communicating Concerns, Emotional Expressions, and Disparities on Ethnic Communities on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Structural Topic Modeling Approach

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