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Venuleo C, Marinaci T, Gennaro A, et al. The Meaning of Living in the Time of COVID-19. A Large Sample Narrative Inquiry. Front Psychol. 2020;11:577077doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577077.
Venuleo, C., Marinaci, T., Gennaro, A., & Palmieri, A. (2020). The Meaning of Living in the Time of COVID-19. A Large Sample Narrative Inquiry. Frontiers in psychology, 11577077. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577077
Venuleo, Claudia, et al. "The Meaning of Living in the Time of COVID-19. A Large Sample Narrative Inquiry." Frontiers in psychology vol. 11 (2020): 577077. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577077
Venuleo C, Marinaci T, Gennaro A, Palmieri A. The Meaning of Living in the Time of COVID-19. A Large Sample Narrative Inquiry. Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 17;11:577077. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577077. eCollection 2020. PMID: 33041950; PMCID: PMC7527434.
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Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 17;11:577077. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577077. eCollection 2020.

The Meaning of Living in the Time of COVID-19. A Large Sample Narrative Inquiry.

Frontiers in psychology

Claudia Venuleo, Tiziana Marinaci, Alessandro Gennaro, Arianna Palmieri

Affiliations

  1. Department of History, Society and Human Studies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
  2. Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
  3. Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FI.S.P.P.A.), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

PMID: 33041950 PMCID: PMC7527434 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577077

Abstract

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a sudden, disruptive event that has strained international and local response capacity and distressed local populations. Different studies have focused on potential psychological distress resulting from the rupture of consolidated habits and routines related to the lockdown measures. Nevertheless, the subjective experience of individuals and the variations in the way of interpreting the lockdown measures remain substantially unexplored. Within the frame of Semiotic Cultural Psychosocial Theory, the study pursued two main goals: first, to explore the symbolic universes (SUs) through which Italian people represented the pandemic crisis and its meaning in their life; and second, to examine how the interpretation of the crisis varies over societal segments with different sociodemographic characteristics and specific life challenges. An online survey was available during the Italian lockdown. Respondents were asked to write a passage about the meaning of living in the time of COVID-19. A total of 1,393 questionnaires (mean = 35.47; standard deviation = 14.92; women: 64.8%; North Italy: 33%; Center Italy: 27%; South Italy: 40%) were collected. The Automated Method for Content Analysis procedure was applied to the collected texts to detect the factorial dimensions underpinning (dis)similarities in the respondents' discourses. Such factors were interpreted as the markers of latent dimensions of meanings defining the SUs active in the sample. A set of χ

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Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Italy; Semiotic Cultural Psychosocial Theory (SCPT); cultural milieu; narratives; sense-making; symbolic universes

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