Психично-здравни аспекти на епидемията от COVID-19 в България
Mental Health Aspects of the Covid-19 Epidemic in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to examine the impact of the epidemic on the mental health of the citizens of Bulgaria in terms of communicational aspects in crisis management, crisis response and the possible long-term psychological consequences. The authors formulate three hypotheses, namely whether the epidemic has increased the levels of anxiety amongst the population, whether there are increased levels of aggression and selfaggression and how the informational environment has affected these processes. Several prerequisites explaining the reaction that the pandemic caused are outlined. An attempt has been made to measure elevated levels of general anxiety, which includes both normal psychological reactions to troubling events and pathological, currently hidden forms of anxiety. In the created proxy model, the increased general anxiety was compared with an analysis of the informational and media environment covering the topic of COVID-19. Correlations were sought in order to interpret the collected data on the subject.

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