Abstract

CRUZ-CABALLERO, Adriana Mariela de la; ROBLES-FRANCIA, Víctor Hugo  and  ROBLES-RAMOS, Víctor Adrián. Gender Differences in Emotional Sensitivity to covid-19 in university students. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.22, e049.  Epub Sep 20, 2021. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v11i22.903.

Objective: To analyze the differences in emotional sensitivity between women and men in higher education students, due to a prolonged period of pandemic. Method: the research was descriptive, transversal; using an incidental non-probabilistic sample of 257 students, 82 male and 175 female. The COVID 19 horror sensitivity survey was applied. The variables analyzed were: socio-emotional well-being, anguish, internal avoidance, external avoidance and self-harm. Results: the female gender expressed greater sensitivity to pandemic horror than the male, especially in anxiety, internal avoidance and external avoidance.

Keywords : emotions; gender; horror; pandemic.

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