How do online users perceive health risks during public health emergencies? Empirical evidence from China

Huang, Shijing; Zhou, Cheng; Qinjian, Yuan; Chen, Guohua; Shen, Huanfeng

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1087229

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“…Many studies have also shown that numerous occupations have this personality trait, all of which can have a significant positive effect on career development. Notably, during this study, we also found that an impersonal teacher-student relationship tends to lead to negative professional emotions and behavior, causing college counselors to view their work only as a means of obtaining a livelihood and to lack a positive attitude, upward motivation, or sense of responsibility [71]. These were the intuitive feelings of many interviewees, which suggests that the possession of affinity is very important.…”

Section: Loyaltymentioning

confidence: 59%

Assessing the Professional Personality of College Counselors: A Student-Oriented Psychological Scale

Cheng

Wei

Dong

et al. 2023

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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This study is aimed at identifying the structure and traits of college counselors’ professional personality. Following existing methodology in conducting face-to-face and open-ended interviews, specialist evaluations, and a literature review, we develop a pilot test questionnaire measuring college counselors’ professional personality traits (79 questions) based on salient data collected from a random sample of 2372 university/college students across China. We also conduct explorative factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to construct the formal “scale for college counselors’ professional personality traits” (SCCPPT, 45 terms) using SPSS 20.0 and LISREL 8.80 software. The results show that this scale features a second-order, 5-factor structure covering the following five dimensions of professional personality: dutifulness, loyalty, affinity, dedication, and innovation. The findings indicate that the reliability (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient) of these five factors ranges from 0.741 to 0.952 and that their validity is supported. Identifying their professional personality enables college counselors to have a more sustainable career and promote the faster growth and higher quality development of students, and the SCCPPT can be used as a measurement tool, supporting research on college counselors’ professional personality. Thus, this study expands both the theoretical and practical literature concerning professional personality traits. It can also provide a novel perspective, which can help global educators understand Chinese higher education; it is also a reference with international implications for professional groups of student affair administrators or instructors.

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confidence: 59%

Assessing the Professional Personality of College Counselors: A Student-Oriented Psychological Scale

Cheng

Wei

Dong

et al. 2023

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…When people perceived health threats, risk perception severity and susceptibility of individual would change appropriately, which would affect their psychological status and behavior. 23,24 During the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline medical staff and their families faced the risk of infection for a long time, and their mental health was subjected to unprecedented challenges. Therefore, it is particularly important to increase attention to the mental health of HCWs during public health emergencies.…”

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More susceptible psychological status of front-line medical staff than temporary workers in China during public health emergency related to COVID-19: a cross-sectional study

Leng

Chen

Jin

et al. 2023

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Our study aimed to investigate the psychological status of medical staff and temporary workers in a fangcang shelter hospital in China and analyze the relevant factors affecting the psychological symptoms. A total of 380 participants were included in a cross-sectional online survey in a fangcang shelter hospital in Hangzhou, China, during a wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Psychological Questionnaires for Emergent Events of Public Health (PQEEPH) was applied to investigate psychological status of medical staff and temporary workers. Multiple linear regression models were built to analyze the relevant factors affecting the psychological symptoms. Of 380 participants, women accounted for a high proportion of medical staff, and the majority of temporary workers were men. Medical staff had higher psychological symptom scores in depression, fear, neurasthenia and hypochondria than temporary workers. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that higher risk perception and occupational exposure of medical staff were significantly related to worse psychological symptoms, and emergency management capacity was negatively correlated with psychological symptoms of medical staff. Our findings indicated that medical staff experienced more serious psychological symptoms than temporary workers during public health emergency, and protecting medical staff from psychological disturbance is of great importance to the development of medical system. Our study suggested that risk perception and protective actions should be actively improved to reduce information avoidance and develop positive psychological status, which provided scientific basis for developing psychological intervention measures when there is emergent event of public health in the future.

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“…38 Based on construal level theory, the closer the psychological distance from public health emergencies, the higher the risk perception of the public should be. More concretely, the closer the psychological distance, the smaller the deviation between individual cognition and actual situation, the lower the level of construct of events, 33 the more information related to events can be obtained from multiple aspects, and think that the current situation is not optimistic, 13 so the public will have a higher risk perception. On the contrary, when it is perceived as psychologically far away, the greater the deviation between individual cognition and actual situation, the higher the level of construct of events.…”

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“…For instance, Huang et al found that the closer the psychological distance, the higher the level of online users' risk perception. 13 Yang and Dong found that the closer the temporal and social distance from the monkeypox epidemic, the higher the level of risk perception. 31 Hence, hypothesis 2 is proposed.…”

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“…Throughout previous literature, public risky behaviors during public health emergencies have been proven to be related to demographic characteristics, 5 , 10 personality traits, 11 risk perception, 10 emotions, 3 health literacy, 12 information sources, and the scope of information dissemination. 13 However, people’s construct of the same event will be different due to different psychological distances, which in turn can affect their subsequent risky choice. 14 As pointed out by Yang et al, the closer the psychological distance perceived by the public in the context of climate change, the more willing they are to adopt citizens green behavior.…”

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How Does Psychological Distance Influence Public Risky Behavior During Public Health Emergencies

Gao,

Sun

2024

RMHP

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Background Public health emergencies not only threaten the physical and mental health of the public but also trigger a series of risky behaviors of the public, which in turn lead to the emergence or intensification of risk events, disrupting existing economic and social order. Purpose Based on construal level theory, cognitive appraisal theory of emotions and mood maintenance hypothesis, the study aims to investigate the collectively effect of risk perception and psychological insecurity in the connection between psychological distance and public risky behavior. Participants and Methods Cross-sectional data was derived from 257 China urban residents. All participants finished the psychological distance scale, risk perception scale, psychological insecurity scale, and risky behavior scale. The research hypothesis was tested using the PROCESS macro. Results The direct impact of psychological distance on risky behavior was not significant (β=−0.018, p>0.05). The indirect impact of psychological distance on risky behavior was significant. In other words, the impact of psychological distance on risky behavior was serially mediated via risk perception and psychological insecurity (β=0.011, 95% CI= [0.0013, 0.025]). Conclusion Risk perception and psychological insecurity play serial mediating roles in the relationship between psychological distance and public risky behavior. We conclude that during public health emergencies, public health managers should pay extra attention to the risk perception and psychological insecurity level of the public with closer psychological distance, take measures to reduce their risk perception, enhance their psychological security, and reduce their risky behavior, thereby ensuring the physical and mental health of the public and maintaining the stability of economic and social order.

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How do online users perceive health risks during public health emergencies? Empirical evidence from China

Cited by 5 publications

References 61 publications

Assessing the Professional Personality of College Counselors: A Student-Oriented Psychological Scale

Assessing the Professional Personality of College Counselors: A Student-Oriented Psychological Scale

More susceptible psychological status of front-line medical staff than temporary workers in China during public health emergency related to COVID-19: a cross-sectional study

How Does Psychological Distance Influence Public Risky Behavior During Public Health Emergencies

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