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What are Greeks afraid of during the coronation era? Who do you trust to inform you and with whom are you discussing the pandemic? These are some of the questions answered by the research of the Department of Communication and Media of the Kapodistrian University of Athens.
According to the research results, the majority of the public is concerned about the consequences of the pandemic crisis in both the national and global economies.
In fact, in these two areas, the vast majority of respondents say they are very afraid (67% for the national economy and 61% for the world economy) and, to a lesser extent, fear (16% for the national economy and 19 % for the global economy).
There is also great fear (62%) that it expresses a smaller but significant portion of the public (40% are very scared and 22% are very scared) regarding the consequences of the pandemic on the finances of individual households, evidence that the crown crisis is for the Greeks, mainly a major problem with economic implications.
Other major fears expressed by the Greeks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are the probability of death of relatives (46%) or other unknown human beings (38%), the possibility of hospitalization in an intensive care unit of a being loved (45%), and restriction of individual liberties (34% are very afraid, 14% are very afraid and 13% are afraid).
There is also the fear of a large part of the public (42%) about the possibility of personal hospitalization in an intensive care unit (13% is very afraid, 13% is very afraid and 16% is afraid), while something similar is not it applies to food exhaustion (41% are not afraid at all, 35% are a little scared).
The crown and the Greeks
According to the research findings, the Greeks discuss the crown issue primarily with their friends and secondly with their spouses / partners, while the family doctor, who represents a specialized source of knowledge, is not a particular pole. Attraction for discussion.
In fact, for the majority of respondents (67%) within the family, the theme of the pandemic is the theme of daily dialogue. For the most part, respondents disagree with the conspiracy theories that present the crown as a laboratory creation in the role of an unconventional weapon to strengthen the interests of some countries (33% strongly disagree and 24% in disagreement).
However, they seem to recognize the severity of the disease, since a large percentage (41%) disagrees with the position that coronary heart disease only affects people with serious underlying diseases.
However, the coronavirus is not considered worse than the common flu (33% disagree and 21% disagree that it is worse).
The Greeks and the measures for the crown.
As for the measures taken by the government in the first two weeks to deal with the spread of the crown, the Greeks characterize them mainly as strict (47%) or even quite strict (21%), but their position seems to be positive . on the government’s effectiveness in controlling the state of the pandemic.
The coronation and the confidence in the institutions.
Regarding the feelings of trust of the Greeks in the institutions, there is a tendency to trust the political actors and institutions that handle the crisis, but not all of them without exception.
As most of the study participants are of left and center-left origin or
ranking (64% total), the fact that a total of 48% declare, with various ratings, that they trust the government (18% trust it, 19% trust it enough and 11% trust it completely) ) is quite positive for a right-wing government.
The Prime Minister has roughly the same percentage of credibility (46%) (17% trust him, 16% trust him enough and 13% fully). The Minister of Health has a lower degree of reliability, but not negligence (38%) (18% trust him, 13% trust him enough and 7% trust him completely).
The media, although the main link between members of the public and the developments of the pandemic, do not seem to be convinced of their credible attitude, since the majority of the research sample affirms that they do not trust them at all (43%). Or trust them in moderation (25% trust them anyway).
Equally low is the participation of the survey participants and the reliability of the information disseminated on social networks, since the majority do not trust at all (35%) or trust them relatively (31%).
On the contrary, at very high levels (89%), the confidence in the health protagonists fluctuates, especially the country’s medical and nursing personnel (24% trust him, 36% trust him enough, 29% trust him). him completely).
The research team, made up of the Director of the Laboratory of Journalistic Studies and Communication Applications of Professor Stelios Papathanassopoulos, Assistant Professor Antonis Armenakis and Professor of the Department and researcher of the Laboratory Dr. Achilles Karadimitriou, investigates to what extent the pandemic crisis has Affected the confidence of citizens in key institutions and public figures involved in emergency management such as the government, the prime minister, the police, the minister of health, scientific specialists, the church, European institutions, the media.
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