Empirical test of a model of attitudes and stigma towards Covid-19

Cruz García-Lirios,Francisco Rubén Sandoval-Vázquez,José Marcos Bustos-Aguayo,Michiko Amemiya,Margarita Juárez-Nájera

doi:10.31579/2690-8808/067

Abstract

The objective of the document is to empirically test a structural model of the relationship between stigma and attitudes. A cross-sectional, psychometric, and predictive work was carried out with a sample of 100 students, considering their exposure to Covid-19 in their professional practices and social service. A factorial structure was found that explained 89% of the variance and the relationship between both variables, suggesting the inclusion of other variables such as the need for information, media framing, and government communication strategy.

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As of January 2021, the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 disease have infected 20 million people, sickened 10 million, and killed half a two million (WHO, 2020)
The sample surveyed seems to corroborate the reports in the literature regarding the fact that attitudes towards Covid-19 and the stigma towards carriers of the virus are related, but are different from the findings reported in unconfined samples where the variables are not related
The objective of this work was to contrast the relationship between attitudes and stigma reported in the literature with respect to its structure observed in the present work

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As of January 2021, the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus pandemic and COVID-19 disease have infected 20 million people, sickened 10 million, and killed half a two million (WHO, 2020). The SARS CoV-2 pandemic and the Covid-19 disease have killed around two million and led to under-registrations identified as asymptomatic carriers, but their effects have been pronounced on people's attitudes to this problem, the management of governments and effects on the environment, mainly in those environments where contagion and fatality rates have been disproportionate to fatalistic scenarios, generating unusual expectations of contagion and contamination (Bustos, García & Juárez, 2020). This is the case of Mexico, where 65 thousand deaths were expected and until January 2021 there are 150 thousand victims. The stigma towards Covid-19 originates from flexible confinement

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