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DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689162
	Large Gatherings? No, Thank You. Devaluation of Crowded Social Scenes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
	Massaccesi, Claudia; Chiappini, Emilio; Paracampo, Riccardo; Korb, Sebastian
通讯作者	Massaccesi, C (corresponding author), Univ Vienna, Dept Clin & Hlth Psychol, Vienna, Austria.
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN	1664-1078
出版年	2021
卷号	12
英文摘要	In most European countries, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020) led to the imposition of physical distancing rules, resulting in a drastic and sudden reduction of real-life social interactions. Even people not directly affected by the virus itself were impacted in their physical and/or mental health, as well as in their financial security, by governmental lockdown measures. We investigated whether the combination of these events had changed people's appraisal of social scenes by testing 241 participants recruited mainly in Italy, Austria, and Germany in an online, preregistered study conducted about 50 days after the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe. Images depicting individuals alone, in small groups (up to four people), and in large groups (more than seven people) were rated in terms of valence, arousal, and perceived physical distance. Pre-pandemic normative ratings were obtained from a validated database (OASIS). Several self-report measures were also taken, and condensed into four factors through factor analysis. All images were rated as more arousing compared to the pre-pandemic period, and the greater the decrease in real-life physical interactions reported by participants, the higher the ratings of arousal. As expected, only images depicting large gatherings of people were rated less positively during, compared to before, the pandemic. These ratings of valence were, however, moderated by a factor that included participants' number of days in isolation, relationship closeness, and perceived COVID-19 threat. Higher scores on this factor were associated with more positive ratings of images of individuals alone and in small groups, suggesting an increased appreciation of safer social situations, such as intimate and small-group contacts. The same factor was inversely related to the perceived physical distance between individuals in images of small and large groups, suggesting an impact of lockdown measures and contagion-related worries on the representation of interpersonal space. These findings point to rapid and compelling psychological and social consequences of the lockdown measures imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic on the perception of social groups. Further studies should assess the long-term impact of such events as typical everyday life is restored.
英文关键词	COVID-19 social distancing social gatherings valence arousal perceived physical distance
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold, Green Published
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000661152300001
WOS关键词	INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES ; DISGUST SENSITIVITY ; VERSION ; SCALE
WOS类目	Psychology, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Psychology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350337
作者单位	[Massaccesi, Claudia; Chiappini, Emilio] Univ Vienna, Dept Clin & Hlth Psychol, Vienna, Austria; [Paracampo, Riccardo] Royal Netherlands Acad Art & Sci KNAW, Netherlands Inst Neurosci, Amsterdam, Netherlands; [Korb, Sebastian] Univ Essex, Dept Psychol, Colchester, Essex, England; [Korb, Sebastian] Univ Vienna, Dept Cognit Emot & Methods Psychol, Vienna, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Massaccesi, Claudia,Chiappini, Emilio,Paracampo, Riccardo,et al. Large Gatherings? No, Thank You. Devaluation of Crowded Social Scenes During the COVID-19 Pandemic[J],2021,12.
APA	Massaccesi, Claudia,Chiappini, Emilio,Paracampo, Riccardo,&Korb, Sebastian.(2021).Large Gatherings? No, Thank You. Devaluation of Crowded Social Scenes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY,12.
MLA	Massaccesi, Claudia,et al."Large Gatherings? No, Thank You. Devaluation of Crowded Social Scenes During the COVID-19 Pandemic".FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY 12(2021).