Emotional State of Mexican University Students in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background: Since the WHO declared the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic in March 2020, the young population is suffering from a range of psychological symptoms. The present study measured symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression in university students of Saltillo, Mexico, using the Depression and Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21). Methods. The DASS-21 scale and an ad hoc questionnaire were used to collect sociodemographic information. Results: The results show that the students who participated in this study suffer from high levels of stress, anxiety and depression. In terms of sociodemographic variables, women, people suffering from a chronic disease and people living with a chronic disease had the highest levels of stress, anxiety and depression, and people who live with a chronically ill person, people who have had the COVID-19 disease and those who have had someone close to them fall sick have had more stress, anxiety and depression than the rest. Another finding of the present study is that university students who believe that others comply with COVID-19 safety measures have significantly lower anxiety and depression than those who believe that others do not comply. Conclusions: It is concluded that university students are a psychologically vulnerable group in the face of the pandemic. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland

Narrativas visuales desde la hibridación de los espacios habitados por agentes diversos de la Facultad de Educación (UPV-EHU)

Space is never neutral as it is inhabited by subjects who forge identities in the places they occupy. Within this context, the Faculty of Education of Bilbao (UPV/EHU) has carried out a project in the academic year 2019-2020 focused on the joint reflection of different educational agents on the spaces. The project aims to deepen in the personal concerns of the participants by collecting their voices from two generating questions: What is the reason why we are in the project, what has led us to take part in this project? The fact of collecting the voices helps to create a horizontal dialogue between the word and the image, positioning them on the same level as a narrative vehicle of the stories that move from a personal vision to a more collective vision and places people in continuous relationship with spaces.El espacio nunca es neutro ya que es habitado por sujetos que van forjando identidades en los lugares que ocupan. Dentro de este contexto la Facultad de Educación de Bilbao (UPV/EHU) ha llevado a cabo en el curso 2019-2020 un proyecto enfocado a la reflexión conjunta de diferentes agentes educativos sobre los espacios. El proyecto tiene como objetivo ahondar en las inquietudes personales de las personas participantes recogiendo sus voces a partir de dos preguntas generadoras: ¿Cuál es la razón por la que estamos en el proyecto?, ¿Qué nos ha llevado a tomar parte en este proyecto? El hecho de recoger las voces ayuda a crear un diálogo horizontal entre la palabra y la imagen, posicionando las mismas en un mismo nivel como vehículo narrador de las historias que transitan desde una visión personal a una visión más colectiva y sitúa a las personas en continua relación con los espacios

El papel de los medios de comunicación en situaciones de crisis sanitaria. La percepción de la población en torno al control y las normas sociales durante la pandemia del COVID-19

Introduction: This study focuses on the analysis of the perception on the roles of mass media during the health crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic. It also studies how people adopt specific roles oriented towards the legitimation and implementation of control and social norms. Methodology: A questionnaire was designed based on a set of Likert type answers responded by 704 people from different regions in Spain. Data were analyzed using SPSS software package. Results: Results indicate that sex and age are determining variables in the legitimation and implementation of social control between peers. Results also indicate that there is a relationship between the way people perceive the role of media and their predisposition to abide by and exercise social norms and control. Discussion and conclusions: Both the literature and obtained data show that there is a relationship between the role of media in situations of social alarm and health crisis, and the processes of construction and legitimation of cosmovisions of “reality” derived from disinformation, hoaxes and noise information.Introducción: El presente trabajo se centra en el análisis de la percepción de la población en torno al papel desempeñado por los medios de comunicación durante la crisis sanitaria derivada de la pandemia del COVID-19, y cómo las personas adoptan determinados roles orientados a la legitimación e implementación del control y las normas sociales. Metodología: Para la consecución del mismo, se diseñó y distribuyó una encuesta de tipo Likert que fue respondida por 704 personas de distintas regiones del Estado español. Los datos han sido posteriormente analizados mediante la herramienta de análisis estadístico SPSS. Resultados: Los resultados indican que el sexo y la edad fueron variables determinantes en la legitimación e implementación del control social entre iguales durante el confinamiento. Los resultados también han puesto en relieve la relación existente entre la forma en la que las personas perciben el rol de los medios de comunicación y su predisposición a acatar y ejercer el control y las normas sociales. Discusión y conclusiones: Tanto la literatura como los datos obtenidos para la realización del presente estudio, muestran la conexión existente entre el rol desempeñado por los medios de comunicación en situaciones de alarma social y de crisis sanitaria, y los procesos de construcción y legitimación de cosmovisiones de la “realidad” derivadas de la desinformación, los bulos y los ruidos informativos

The emotional state of young people in northern Spain after one year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the young population has been suffering from an accumulation of psychological symptoms in northern Spain. The main objectives of this study were (1) to assess whether psychological symptoms persisted after one year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic in northern Spain sample of young people, and (2) to analyze whether pandemic-specific variables (having a chronic illness, living with a person who has a chronic illness, having been infected with COVID-19, having a close person who has died or believing that people are respecting the measures imposed) are related to psychological symptomatology