Abstract
One of the direct effect of current COVID-19 pandemic’ social distancing on an unspecified period of time urges us to compensate our lack of physical connection with our readiness in the online environments, especially social media platforms. Present research investigates to which extent the internet content awareness construct, difficulties in emotional regulation and online duality have an impact on predicting future helping attitudes of bystanders. In order to investigate the eligibility of this prediction model, our team has advanced the Erasmus+ funded project Hate’s Journey. In 2019, our research team has designed a multiple specific sections online questionnaire addressing 206 youth from Latvia, Turkey, Spain and Romania. We have used a multiple linear regression analysis. The obtained results validate our hypothesis, confirming that if an individual is characterized by a decreased internet content awareness, a high level of difficulties in emotional regulation and increased online duality, then there is a 37% probability that the youth bystanders will develop a lack of helping attitudes towards the victims when facing a digital hate speech context. Conclusions and implications regarding to the current pandemic social distancing and digital closeness effects over the prosocial behaviour are discussed.
Highlights
COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly, rapidly and measurably changed our daily lives, but could a longer period of social spacing create a society that is less close to the others once it is overcame?Will people avoid physical contact with others, and in a post-coronavirus world? Imaginable, this reality has the potential to become the biggest social experiment in the world
One of the direct effect of current COVID-19 pandemic’ social distancing on an unspecified period of time, urges us to compensate our lack of physical connection with our readiness in the online environments, especially social media platforms
For the variables used in the present study the descriptive results are: helping attitudes (m=70.50; SD=11.77), internet content awareness (m=14.89; SD=3.4), difficulties in emotional regulation (m=43.22; SD=8.86), and online duality (m=2.41; SD=0.94)
Summary
COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly, rapidly and measurably changed our daily lives, but could a longer period of social spacing create a society that is less close to the others once it is overcame?Will people avoid physical contact with others, and in a post-coronavirus world? Imaginable, this reality has the potential to become the biggest social experiment in the world. The research literature is abundant with online research questionnaires investigating the effects of lockdown over citizens’ general wellbeing index worldwide. Much research conclusions will flourish in databases and recommendations for enhancing our own wellbeing will exponentially bust, along with a spike of whistleblowers that will catch our senses with incredible stories of hate narratives. The instigation to hate discourse towards politics and the medical system will become the main social media them for the following months. One of the direct effect of current COVID-19 pandemic’ social distancing on an unspecified period of time, urges us to compensate our lack of physical connection with our readiness in the online environments, especially social media platforms.
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