Development and validation of a quantitative instrument for measuring temporal and social disorientation in the Covid-19 crisis

Pablo Fernandez Velasco, Umer Gurchani, Bastien Perroy, Tom Pelletreau-Duris and Roberto Casati

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: We developed a quantitative Instrument for measuring Temporal and Social Disorientation (ITSD), aimed at major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Disorientation has been identified as one of the central elements of the psychological impact of the Covid-19 era on the general public, but so far, the question has only been approached qualitatively. This paper offers an empirical, quantitative approach to the multi-faceted disorientation of the Covid-19 pandemic by operationalising the issue with the help of the ITSD. The ITSD was developed through multiple stages involving a preliminary open-ended questionnaire followed by a coder-based thematic analysis. This paper establishes the reliability and validity of the resulting ITSD using a 3-step validation process on a sample size of 3306.

Date: 2022
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