A Dataset of Social-Psychological and Emotional Reactions during the COVID-19 Pandemic across Four European Countries

Abstract

In April 2020, only a few weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic had erupted, we conducted an online survey and collected data from 2031 individuals in four European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom) using a cross-sectional design. Participants recruited on Cint completed new and pre-existing measures of socio-political attitudes, perceived threats, appraisals (anger at the government, anger at transgressors of hygiene measures, anxiety about coronavirus via the appraisals of health-related threats), conspiracy mentality, moral reasoning, threat estimation (coronavirus, climate, symbolic material/safety), news consumption, support for and compliance with governmental hygiene measures, subjective social status and demographics. The dataset is stored on figshare repository. It can be used to study social-psychological, emotional, socio-political and socio-economic factors of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

anger, anxiety, appraisal theory, conspiracy mentality, COVID-19 pandemic, populism, threat

Citation

Abadi, D., Arnaldo, I., & Fischer, A. (2023). A Dataset of Social Psychological and Emotional Reactions During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across Four European Countries. Journal of Open Psychology Data, X: X, pp. 1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.86

License 

Our dataset is published under the CC BY-SA license, which allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, as long the creator is credited. The license allows for commercial use. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

Funding statement

This research was funded by the European Union’s H2020 project Democratic Efficacy and the Varieties of Populism in Europe (DEMOS) under H2020-EU.3.6.1.1. and H2020-EU.3.6.1.2. (grant agreement ID: 822590).

摘要

2020年4月，即新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）大流行爆发仅数周后，我们采用横断面研究设计开展了一项在线调查，从德国、荷兰、西班牙及英国四个欧洲国家的2031名受访者处收集了数据。通过Cint平台招募的受访者完成了新增及既往量表的填写，内容涵盖社会政治态度、感知威胁、评估反应（对政府的愤怒情绪、对违反防疫措施者的愤怒情绪、基于健康相关威胁评估产生的新冠病毒相关焦虑）、阴谋思维（conspiracy mentality）、道德推理、威胁评估（新冠病毒、气候、符号性物质/安全威胁）、新闻消费情况、对政府防疫措施的支持与依从性、主观社会地位及人口统计学信息。本数据集存储于figshare知识库，可用于研究新冠疫情相关的社会心理、情绪、社会政治及社会经济影响因素。

关键词：愤怒情绪、焦虑情绪、评估理论（appraisal theory）、阴谋思维、新冠疫情（COVID-19 pandemic）、民粹主义（populism）、威胁

引用格式：Abadi, D.、Arnaldo, I. 与 Fischer, A.（2023）。《四个欧洲国家新冠疫情期间社会心理与情绪反应数据集》。《开放心理学数据期刊（Journal of Open Psychology Data）》，X: X，第1–11页。DOI：https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.86

许可声明

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资助声明

本研究由欧盟“欧洲民主效能与民粹主义多样性（DEMOS）”H2020项目在H2020-EU.3.6.1.1.与H2020-EU.3.6.1.2.框架下资助（资助协议编号：822590）。