Cultural Perspectives, Feelings and Coping Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Romanian Students

Simona Șimon (), Marcela Alina Fărcașiu () and Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir
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Simona Șimon: Faculty of Communication Sciences, Politehnica University of Timișoara, 300006 Timișoara, Romania
Marcela Alina Fărcașiu: Faculty of Communication Sciences, Politehnica University of Timișoara, 300006 Timișoara, Romania
Gabriel-Mugurel Dragomir: Faculty of Communication Sciences, Politehnica University of Timișoara, 300006 Timișoara, Romania

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 19, 1-17

Abstract: Socio-cultural patterns and communication styles differ from culture to culture. As such, the way in which people deal with a crisis situation is also culture-dependent. The COVID-19 pandemic has pointed, once more, to the cultural diversity of the world through a variety of reactions to the measures imposed by the global spread of the deadly virus. The present research aims at identifying the feelings, coping behaviors and communication patterns of the younger Romanian generation during the COVID-19 pandemic and at explaining them from a cultural standpoint, in an effort to raise awareness of the cultural (un)predictability of human reactions to certain external stimuli. The survey conducted online on 409 students at Politehnica University of Timișoara (Romania) revealed that most of students’ socio-cultural behavior could have been anticipated by the Romanian authorities when they decided a certain pandemic action plan, and that the few unexpected results indicate the versatility of a culture that is still changing under the Western European influence caused by the fact that Romania has adhered to European Union principles for more than fifteen years.

Keywords: coping behavior; COVID-19 pandemic; cultural perspectives; face masks; Romanian students; socio-cultural patterns; feelings; civism; interpersonal relationships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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