Change in Covid-19-related worries and fears, risk perceptions, and prevention behaviors over the course of the pandemic: Longitudinal prediction of prevention-related outcomes in a vulnerable sample of formerly unemployed individuals

大流行期间与 Covid-19 相关的担忧和恐惧、风险认知和预防行为的变化：对以前失业个体的弱势样本中预防相关结果的纵向预测

• 批准号: 466310014
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Karsten Ingmar Paul
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Psychologie, insbes. Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2020-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/466310014?language=en
• 关键词: Change; Covid; 19; related; worries

The project proposed here consists of a questionnaire study with two waves of data collection among unemployed and re-employed people. The focus will be on (1) changes in emotional reactions to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic such as COVID-19-related worries and fears, (2) attitudes such as perceived risk of infection, and (3) prevention-related behaviors such as social contact behaviors. Job loss often leads to a marginal position in the labor market and an unstable employment pattern. Due to their often low education, formerly unemployed people often have occupational activities that cannot easily be shifted to their homes and thus involve direct contact with others. Consequently, their risk of infection should be higher than in the general population, and therefore their prevention-related behavior should be particularly relevant for the course of the pandemic. Overall, this population group should be particularly affected by the pandemic with regard to their economic and health situation.The sample used will be drawn from an existing panel established for a soon-to-be-completed longitudinal study. It was funded by the DFG in two projects and focused on short-term and long-term psychological consequences of unemployment and re-employment. A few COVID-19-related aspects (e.g., on worries about losing relatives, on social contact behavior) have already been and are being collected in the last three of the twelve waves of this study. In addition, data on mental health and data on the degree of fulfillment of important psychological needs are available since 2013 (collected in intervals of three to five months). These variables will also be collected in the two waves of the project requested here and will act as predictors of e.g., pandemic-related worries and fears, attitudes, and prevention-related behaviors. Further questions on pandemic-related variables (such as willingness to adhere to measures, willingness to receive a vaccine) will be included in the new study.Specifically, we will analyze how pandemic-related worries and fears, changes in mental health, and changes in need fulfillment influence prevention-related attitudes and behaviors. The specific design enables us to also determine the effect of infection prevention measures such as curfews, fear appeals, and public life restrictions on the aforementioned variables. Overall, the proposed project will lead to valuable conclusions on how to design infection-prevention interventions and communication strategies in pandemics, further improving their effectiveness.

本文提出的研究项目包括一个问卷调查，两波数据收集的失业和再就业人员。重点将放在（1）对SARS-CoV-2大流行的情绪反应的变化，如COVID-19相关的担忧和恐惧，（2）态度，如感知的感染风险，以及（3）预防相关行为，如社会接触行为。失业往往导致劳动力市场的边缘地位和不稳定的就业模式。由于以前失业的人往往受教育程度较低，他们的职业活动往往不能轻易转移到家中，因此需要与他人直接接触。因此，他们的感染风险应该高于一般人群，因此他们的预防相关行为应该与大流行的过程特别相关。总体而言，这一人口群体在经济和健康状况方面受到的影响特别大，所使用的样本将从为即将完成的纵向研究而设立的现有小组中抽取。它由DFG资助的两个项目，重点是失业和再就业的短期和长期心理后果。一些与COVID-19相关的方面（例如，关于失去亲人的担忧，关于社会接触行为）已经在这项研究的12个波中的最后三个波中收集。此外，自2013年以来，还提供了关于心理健康的数据和关于重要心理需求满足程度的数据（每隔3至5个月收集一次）。这些变量也将在这里要求的项目的两个波中收集，并将作为预测因子，例如，与流行病有关的担忧和恐惧、态度以及与预防有关的行为。新的研究将包括与流行病相关的变量（如坚持措施的意愿，接种疫苗的意愿）的进一步问题。具体来说，我们将分析与流行病相关的担忧和恐惧，心理健康的变化以及需求满足的变化如何影响与预防相关的态度和行为。具体的设计也使我们能够确定感染预防措施的效果，如宵禁，恐惧呼吁和公共生活限制对上述变量。总的来说，拟议的项目将导致关于如何设计流行病中的感染预防干预措施和传播战略的宝贵结论，进一步提高其有效性。