Commodari Elena, La Rosa Valentina Lucia
Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2020 Sep 23;11:559951. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.559951. eCollection 2020.
Since March 2020, many countries throughout the world have been in lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In Italy, the quarantine began on March 9, 2020, and containment measures were partially reduced only on May 4, 2020. The quarantine experience has a significant psychological impact at all ages but can have it above all on adolescents who cannot go to school, play sports, and meet friends. In this scenario, this study aimed to provide a general overview of the perceived risk related to COVID-19 and the psychological experience of quarantine in a large sample of Italian adolescents. Nine hundred and seventy eight adolescents (males = 339; females = 639) living in 13 Italian regions and attending upper secondary school (age range: 13-20, = 16.57, = 1.20), responded to an internet-based questionnaire about perceived health risk related to COVID-19, knowledge and information on measures to control the pandemic, beliefs and opinions on stage two of the quarantine, and psychological experiences related to quarantine. 31.1% of the participants lived in "red zones," which are places where the government has imposed stricter measures of containment due to exponential and uncontrolled growth in contagion cases compared to other areas in Italy. According to our results, Italian adolescents had a low perception of risk of COVID-19. Perceived comparative susceptibility and perceived seriousness were also very low. However, they were aware of the restriction measures necessary to contain the spread of the virus, and they agreed with the limitations imposed by the government. Females and adolescents living in a "red zone" showed more significant psychological negative feelings about the quarantine experience. However, no significant differences were found about the regions where the teenagers of our sample live and the other variables related to the COVID-19 experience. This is very interesting data, leading us to hypothesize that the participants' negative feelings may be more related to the adolescent period than to the pandemic itself.
自2020年3月以来，为应对新冠疫情，世界上许多国家都实施了封锁措施。在意大利，隔离于2020年3月9日开始，管控措施直到2020年5月4日才部分放宽。隔离经历对各年龄段人群都有重大心理影响，不过对无法上学、进行体育活动以及与朋友见面的青少年影响尤为显著。在这种情况下，本研究旨在全面概述意大利大量青少年对新冠疫情的感知风险以及隔离期间的心理体验。978名居住在意大利13个地区、就读于高中的青少年（男性 = 339人；女性 = 639人）（年龄范围：13 - 20岁，平均年龄 = 16.57岁，标准差 = 1.20），回答了一份基于网络的问卷，内容涉及对新冠疫情的感知健康风险、控制疫情措施的知识和信息、对隔离第二阶段的信念和看法以及与隔离相关的心理体验。31.1%的参与者居住在“红色区域”，与意大利其他地区相比，这些地方因感染病例呈指数级且无控制地增长，政府实施了更严格的管控措施。根据我们的研究结果，意大利青少年对新冠疫情的风险感知较低。感知相对易感性和感知严重性也很低。然而，他们意识到遏制病毒传播所需的限制措施，并认同政府实施的限制。女性以及居住在“红色区域”的青少年对隔离经历表现出更显著的负面心理感受。然而，在我们样本中的青少年所居住的地区以及与新冠疫情经历相关的其他变量方面，未发现显著差异。这是非常有趣的数据，使我们推测参与者的负面情绪可能更多与青少年时期有关，而非疫情本身。
