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

David Abadi; Irene Arnaldo; Agneta Fischer

doi:10.5334/jopd.86

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 and populist 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.

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

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