*3.4. Attitudes and Moods about The New Coronavirus*

Regarding the "Attitudes and moods about the new Coronavirus" scale, there are some interesting results. In particular, with respect to the item "The Coronavirus is a mysterious and highly deadly virus capable of decimating the world's population", 7.2% declared to "Completely disagree", 18.3% to "Quite disagree", 17.4% to "Neither agree nor disagree", 37.4% declared to "Quite agree" and 19.7% to "Completely agree". Additionally, the item "The authorities were right in closing bars, restaurants, shops, etc. and inviting the population to stay at home" had some interesting answers, with 70.8% declaring to "Completely agree" and 22.7% to "Quite agree", while the remaining 6.5% is distributed between "Completely disagree" (1%), "Quite disagree" (2%) and "Neither disagree nor agree" (3.5%). Finally, as regards the item "The Italian population behaved responsibly respecting the limitations imposed by the authorities", the respondents were grouped as follows: 6% "Completely disagree", 26.5% "Quite disagree", 17.7% "Neither disagree nor agree", 44.3% "Quite agree" and only 5.5% "Completely agree", showing a general confidence in the population, but also a certain degree of criticism towards some behaviors.
