Ceccato Irene, Di Crosta Adolfo, Palumbo Rocco, Marchetti Daniela, La Malva Pasquale, Maiella Roberta, Marin Anna, Mammarella Nicola, Verrocchio Maria Cristina, Di Domenico Alberto
Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, 11, Via Luigi Polacchi, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences, G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, 31, Via dei Vestini, 66100 Chieti, Italy.
Data Brief. 2021 Feb 27;35:106892. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106892. eCollection 2021 Apr.
The worldwide spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has unpredictably changed the way people live, by influencing their behaviors and beliefs. This article presents the raw data that have been used to investigate how the pandemic affected people's beliefs and expectations about their future. A total of 3991 participants (18-85 years old) were recruited through an online survey using the Qualtrics platform. The data collection was carried out during the Italian lockdown, between April 1st and April 20th, 2020. This survey collected information about psychological and socioeconomic variables related to the COVID-19 emergency. Respondents filled out a battery of questionnaires that included five measures. Three of the measures were specifically developed by the authors: 1. Expected repercussions of COVID-19; 2. Forethought scale; and 3. Perceived financial resources. The two other measures were standardized questionnaires: the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory Short Version (ZTPI-short) and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Data from tailored measures on the COVID-19 pandemic reflect people's beliefs about the future, in terms of expectation about the pandemic's effect, estimation of the time needed for the pandemic to resolve, and estimation of how long people could endure the lockdown situation from a financial perspective. The ZTPI questionnaire was administered to measure people's differences in terms of Deviation from Balanced Time Perspective (DBTP). The PANAS questionnaire, instead, was administered to investigate people's differences in terms of emotional mood states. The provided dataset could be useful to other researchers, considering that the data were collected during the lockdown imposed on Italian citizens to face the unprecedented emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the collected data may help to understand how people coped with the pandemic, both from a psychological and socioeconomic perspective. Finally, this dataset can be included in the broad context of data, procedures, and experimental materials that have been used to expand our knowledge in the study of time perspective, beliefs, and emotions.
新冠疫情在全球范围内的蔓延不可预测地改变了人们的生活方式，影响了他们的行为和信念。本文展示了用于调查疫情如何影响人们对未来的信念和期望的原始数据。通过使用Qualtrics平台的在线调查，共招募了3991名参与者（年龄在18至85岁之间）。数据收集于2020年4月1日至4月20日意大利封锁期间进行。这项调查收集了与新冠疫情紧急情况相关的心理和社会经济变量信息。受访者填写了一系列问卷，其中包括五项测量指标。其中三项测量指标是作者专门制定的：1. 新冠疫情的预期影响；2. 前瞻性量表；3. 感知财务资源。另外两项测量指标是标准化问卷：津巴多时间视角量表简版（ZTPI-short）和正负情绪量表（PANAS）。关于新冠疫情的定制测量指标数据反映了人们对未来的信念，包括对疫情影响的预期、对疫情解决所需时间的估计，以及从财务角度对人们能够忍受封锁状况时长的估计。ZTPI问卷用于测量人们在偏离平衡时间视角（DBTP）方面的差异。相反，PANAS问卷用于调查人们在情绪状态方面的差异。考虑到这些数据是在意大利公民为应对因新冠疫情而出现的前所未有的紧急情况而实施的封锁期间收集的，所提供的数据集可能对其他研究人员有用。因此，收集到的数据可能有助于从心理和社会经济角度了解人们如何应对疫情。最后，这个数据集可以纳入已用于扩展我们在时间视角、信念和情感研究方面知识的数据、程序和实验材料的广泛背景中。
