Author: DANIELA DOBRE, IULIANA ARMAS

Abstract: Knowing how a crisis is perceived by a population can lead to more optimal and effective
measures to combat negative effects of disasters in this context, attitudes, the degree of involvement,
the speed of accepting imposed measures, play an important role for a preventive, pro-active
behaviour of both individual- and community-level. In this paper, based on the data provided by a
quantitative questionnaire applied in two non-sequential waves (177 responses in Wave 1 and 368
responses in Wave 5), some aspects of the five constructs expressing the types of perception towards
authorities, support, risk of illness, duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, media and some of the
factors that may influence perception (personality, cognitive-attitudinal, emotional, behavioural,
demographic aspects) are analysed.

Keywords: psychometric research, Covid-19 perception, behaviour, transversal method.

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