Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 7, Pages 951-960Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1359105315620294
Keywords
Ebola; emerging infectious diseases; emotions; risk; social representations
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- Basque Government PREDOC
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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.
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