Face masks as layers of meaning in times of COVID-19

IF 1 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Culture & Psychology Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI:10.1177/1354067X20957549

Luca Tateo

引用次数: 20

Abstract

The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought to the front a particular object: the face mask. I have explored the way people make-meaning of an object generally associated with the medical context that, under exceptional circumstances, can become a presence in everyday life. Understanding how people make meaning of their use is important. Using cultural psychology, I analyse preferences toward different types of face masks people would wear in public. The study involved 2 groups, 44 Norwegian university students and 60 international academics. In particular, I have focused on the role of the mask in regulating people affective experience. The mask evokes safety and fear, it mediates in the auto-dialogue between “I” and “Me” through the “Other”, and in the hetero-dialogue between “I” and the “Other” through “Me” The dialogue is characterized by a certain ambivalence, as expected. Meaning-making is indeed the way to deal with the ambivalence of human existence.

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新冠肺炎时代口罩的意义

2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行将一个特定的物体带到了面前:口罩。我探索了人们如何理解通常与医学背景相关的物体，在特殊情况下，这些物体可以成为日常生活中的存在。了解人们如何理解他们的用法是很重要的。利用文化心理学，我分析了人们在公共场合戴不同类型口罩的偏好。这项研究涉及两组，44名挪威大学生和60名国际学者。我特别关注了面具在调节人们情感体验中的作用。面具唤起了安全与恐惧，它通过“他者”调解了“我”与“我”之间的自动对话，也通过“我”调解了“我”与“他者”之间的异性对话，这种对话正如预期的那样带有一定的矛盾心理。意义创造确实是处理人类存在的矛盾心理的一种方式。

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Culture & Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

18.80%

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期刊介绍： Culture & Psychology addresses the centrality of culture necessary for a basic understanding of the psychology of human beings: their identity, social conduct, intra- and intersubjective experiences, emotions and semiotic creativity. By drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds, the editorial aim is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly investigations and discussions that will advance our basic knowledge of the self in its historical and cultural contexts. The orientation of the journal is towards formulating new conceptualizations of culture in psychology, together with theoretically relevant empirical investigations.