EMOTIONAL STATE OF REGION'S RESIDENTS DURING THE EMERGENCY PANDEMIC OF CORONAVIRUS

ABSTRACT

In light of the emergence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which swept the whole world, and its spread, which received the status of a pandemic, the governments of most countries of the world have introduced restrictive measures of a social and economic nature, which can generally be described as an extreme situation. The pandemic is spreading around the world in different ways. The countries entered a pandemic situation at different times. which proceeded in each territory in its way there are countries with a greater generalization of the disease among the population, a more severe symptomatic course, a high mortality rate, and vice versa, states with a low percentage of cases and a more significant number of recovered. The heterochronism of the development of the pandemic in the world is experienced differently by individual countries' inhabitants. Following the dynamics of the pandemic situation's development, states introduce appropriate restrictions that have both economic and socio-psychological consequences for people. Citizens experience incredible stress and tension. Therefore, the study's purpose was to study the emotional state of the region's inhabitants at various stages of the emergency coronavirus pandemic. The results obtained indicate the peculiarities of the psycho-emotional state of residents of different regions depending on the phase of the pandemic, and the specifics of the subjective experience (expectations of the future, adherence to the self-isolation regime, readiness for economic changes) of the situation of an emergency COVID-19 pandemic. (C) 2021 Published by European Publisher.