Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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DOI：
10.1007/s11469-020-00281-5
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发表时间：
2020-04-27
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8
通讯作者：
Latzman, Robert D.
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作者：
Harper, Craig A.;Satchell, Liam P.;Latzman, Robert D.
在当前 2019 冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 全球大流行的背景下，卫生专业人员正在与社会科学家合作，为政府政策提供有关如何减缓病毒传播的信息。例如，越来越多的社会科学研究着眼于公共信息框架的作用，但迄今为止，很少有研究探讨情绪和个性变量中的个体差异在预测病毒缓解行为中的作用。在这项研究中，我们招募了一个大型国际社区样本 (N = 324)，以完成对感染 COVID-19 的自我感知风险、对病毒的恐惧、道德基础、政治倾向和应对大流行的行为改变的测量。一致地，积极行为改变（例如，保持社交距离、改善手部卫生）的唯一预测因素是对 COVID-19 的恐惧，而政治相关变量没有影响。我们讨论这些数据与恐惧在全球健康危机中的潜在功能性质有关。
In the current context of the global pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), health professionals are working with social scientists to inform government policy on how to slow the spread of the virus. An increasing amount of social scientific research has looked at the role of public message framing, for instance, but few studies have thus far examined the role of individual differences in emotional and personality-based variables in predicting virus-mitigating behaviors. In this study, we recruited a large international community sample (N = 324) to complete measures of self-perceived risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of the virus, moral foundations, political orientation, and behavior change in response to the pandemic. Consistently, the only predictor of positive behavior change (e.g., social distancing, improved hand hygiene) was fear of COVID-19, with no effect of politically relevant variables. We discuss these data in relation to the potentially functional nature of fear in global health crises.