Abstract
The paper presents the results of a study on the analysis of the perception of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by Spanish-, German- and Russian-speaking social media actors after the emergence of vaccines and attitudes toward vaccination. The empirical base of the study was corpus data, materials from online media, social networks, microblogging, blogs, instant messengers, forums, reviews, and video hosting data. The Spanish-language database included 6,640,912 tokens and 43,251,900 characters; the German-language database included 16,322,042 tokens and 109,139,405 characters; and the Russian-language database included 16,310,307 tokens and 109,060,935 characters. With a neural network approach, a multilingual analysis was performed, which made it possible to analyze the topic structure and the semantic network with the allocation of the semantic core and the associative network. Differential and integral features of the identified structures based on the material of these three databases made it possible to determine the general and different characteristics of the perception by Spanish-, German-, and Russian-speaking users of the development of the pandemic, a number of social problems, attitudes toward various types of vaccines, observance of preventive measures, and readiness for vaccination.
Highlights
Perception of decease: The cognitive representation of a disease present in both patients and healthy individuals largely determines the emotional and behavioral responses of members of society
Based on the project data, a study was conducted in 16 European countries in the early period of the pandemic, which showed that Europeans reacted in a similar way to information about the COVID-19 spread in other countries; national differences were of no importance, but age, gender, and educational background affected the perception of COVID-19 under certain conditions
Vaccination duration: En cuanto a grupos de edad, casi el 90% de los españoles de 60 a 69 años tienen la pauta completa de la vacuna, en su mayoría de AstraZeneca, que requiere más tiempo de intervalo entre dosis, entre 12 y 14 semanas, motivo por el que varias comunidades adelantaron la segunda dosis para hacer frente a la expansión de la variante delta
Summary
Perception of decease: The cognitive representation of a disease present in both patients and healthy individuals largely determines the emotional and behavioral responses of members of society. A note should be made of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) IMPACT project, which is an international online survey conducted in 78 countries/regions of the world aimed at studying behavioral and psychological consequences of COVID-19. The perception of COVID-19, the reaction of society to the introduced anti-COVID-19 measures, the need for protective measures (the requirement to observe social distancing, wear masks, wash hands, etc.) largely determines the behavior of people and, as a result, the effectiveness of the fight against the pandemic (Bilgili et al, 2021)
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