Research Article

Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience

Volume: 2 Number: 3 December 24, 2020
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Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience

Abstract

COVID-19 is a highly infectious and detrimental illness and is accepted as one of the most pervasive health crises of the last decades. The pandemic maintains its full effect and has continued longer than initially expected. The pandemic has affected many people in Turkey as well, irritating and making them anxious. In this study, the reaction of the society to the epidemic has been examined in the period from March month, when the first case has been announced, to June, when the normalization process began (18 March- 28 May). In order to understand these reactions, a total of 567,018 texts using the hashtag #StayHome on the Twitter platform have been fetched and analyzed. In this period, when the pandemic first appeared, it has been tried to make sense of what society has talked about by using text mining. Sensitivity analysis has been used to see the weekly reactions of individuals that differentiate their positive/negative moods and hope levels. As a result, some differences have been observed in the emotions analyzed in two-week periods.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Business Administration

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 24, 2020

Submission Date

November 13, 2020

Acceptance Date

December 15, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 2 Number: 3

APA
Silahtaroğlu, G., Baykal, E., & Canbolat, Z. N. (2020). Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience. Ekonomi İşletme Ve Maliye Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2(3), 280-304. https://doi.org/10.38009/ekimad.825285
AMA
1.Silahtaroğlu G, Baykal E, Canbolat ZN. Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience. EKİMAD. 2020;2(3):280-304. doi:10.38009/ekimad.825285
Chicago
Silahtaroğlu, Gökhan, Elif Baykal, and Zehra Nur Canbolat. 2020. “Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience”. Ekonomi İşletme Ve Maliye Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 (3): 280-304. https://doi.org/10.38009/ekimad.825285.
EndNote
Silahtaroğlu G, Baykal E, Canbolat ZN (December 1, 2020) Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience. Ekonomi İşletme ve Maliye Araştırmaları Dergisi 2 3 280–304.
IEEE
[1]G. Silahtaroğlu, E. Baykal, and Z. N. Canbolat, “Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience”, EKİMAD, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 280–304, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.38009/ekimad.825285.
ISNAD
Silahtaroğlu, Gökhan - Baykal, Elif - Canbolat, Zehra Nur. “Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience”. Ekonomi İşletme ve Maliye Araştırmaları Dergisi 2/3 (December 1, 2020): 280-304. https://doi.org/10.38009/ekimad.825285.
JAMA
1.Silahtaroğlu G, Baykal E, Canbolat ZN. Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience. EKİMAD. 2020;2:280–304.
MLA
Silahtaroğlu, Gökhan, et al. “Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience”. Ekonomi İşletme Ve Maliye Araştırmaları Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 3, Dec. 2020, pp. 280-04, doi:10.38009/ekimad.825285.
Vancouver
1.Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Elif Baykal, Zehra Nur Canbolat. Weekly Emotional Changes Amidst Covid-19: Turkish Experience. EKİMAD. 2020 Dec. 1;2(3):280-304. doi:10.38009/ekimad.825285

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