Data on the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on people's expectations about their future

Data in Brief

Pasquale La Malva¹  Nicola Mammarella²  Adolfo Di Crosta³  Irene Ceccato³  Anna Marin⁴  Rocco Palumbo⁴  Daniela Marchetti⁴  Maria Cristina Verrocchio⁴  Alberto Di Domenico⁴  Roberta Maiella⁴ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Department of Neurology, Boston University, 72 East Concord Street, C-3, Boston, MA 02118, USA;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;

关键词: Time perspective;    Mood states;    Zimbardo time perspective inventory;    Positive and negative affect schedule;    Future expectations;    Beliefs;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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