Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases
Understanding an Ebola outbreak: Social representations of emerging infectious diseases
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DOI：
10.1177/1359105315620294
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发表时间：
2017-06-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Valencia, Jose
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作者：
Idoiaga Mondragon, Nahia;Gil de Montes, Lorena;Valencia, Jose
这项研究考察了2014-2015年埃博拉疫情的集体形象，以了解人们如何将这一流行病纳入他们的日常思维。来自西班牙的294人回答了埃博拉引发的自由联想练习，并使用Alcust软件对内容进行了分析。首先，结果显示，埃博拉病毒天生就是非洲病毒。其次，它还被描述为制造恐惧的全球威胁。人们也感到愤怒，他们指责政治当局和大众媒体未能管理这场危机。最后，这项研究强调了社会表征的重要性，以了解当前的疫情是如何被认知地呈现和情感上面对的，作为适当管理未来流行病的关键因素。
This study examined the collective image of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, to understand how people incorporate this epidemic in their everyday thinking. A free association exercise elicited by Ebola was answered by 294 people from Spain and the content was analysed using Alceste software. First, results showed that Ebola was represented as inherently African. Second, it was also depicted as a global threat creating fear. People also felt anger, and they blamed political authorities and the mass media for the failure to manage this crisis. Finally, this research underlines the importance of the social representations to understand how current outbreaks are cognitively represented and emotionally faced as a key factor to appropriately manage future epidemics.