di_riso_2025_mask_emotion

9,087 responses from 1,149 respondents to 8 items.

About this table

Description8-item semantic-differential scale of feelings about mask-wearing, large Italian sample
ReferenceDi Riso D, Spaggiari S, Calignano G, Rigo P, Miscioscia M (2025). Wearing face masks when no longer mandatory: An exploratory study about attitudinal and psychological health factors in a large Italian sample. PLOS ONE, 20(3), e0314607. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314607
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0314607
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0314607.s001

Size and shape

Responses9,087
Respondents1,149
Items8
Response categories5
Responses per respondent7.909
Responses per item1135.875
Density0.989
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

sampleInternet-based
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)ita

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentAd Hoc Socio-Demographic Interview - Emotions experienced when wearing face masks
Mean words per item1
Mean characters per item2
Mean characters per response8.200
Flesch-Kincaid grade level-3.400

Columns

cov_age_groupcov_educationcov_past_covid_infectioniditemresp

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python:

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("di_riso_2025_mask_emotion")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("di_riso_2025_mask_emotion")

Version and provenance

IRW versionv393
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v7.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/pqqn-pm43
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv7.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v23.0