Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety

Fragkaki, Iro; Maciejewski, Dominique; Weijman, Esther L.; Feltes, Jonas; Cima, Maaike

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110781

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“…Meanwhile, individuals with high severity perceived result in a high change in behavior. This suggests that psychological responses affect a person's response to behavioral changes [34]. Other studies have also shown that perceived severity affects emotional response [35].…”

Section: Perceivedmentioning

confidence: 97%

Health Belief Associated with Adherence to Health Protocol in Preventing Coronavirus Diseases on Patients’ Family

Fikriana¹,

Fahrany²,

Rusli³

2021

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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BACKGROUND: Adherence with health protocols during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is very important to prevent transmission. However, it is obtained that adherence with health protocols is still not optimal. The hospital environment is an area that is at high risk of transmission. AIM: The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between health belief and adherence with the health protocol in the patient’s family. METHODS: Quantitative research is correlated with a cross-sectional approach. The sample is the family of patients at the hospital, which was taken with simple random sampling technique as many as 100 people. Research variables include perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barrier, self-efficacy, and adherence with health protocols. Data collection was using questionnaire instruments. Data analysis was using Fisher test with a significance level of 95%. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Fisher’s test results obtained data that there is a relationship between health belief in the dimensions of perceived susceptibility (p = 0.007), perceived severity (p = 0.027), perceived benefits (p = 0.003), perceived barriers (p = 0.021), and self-efficacy (p = 0.002) with adherence with health protocols in an effort to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. The patient’s family will be willing to implement health protocols if they have a high health belief in efforts to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. This health belief includes the belief that COVID-19 disease is easily contagious and serious; adherence will provide benefits for health. CONCLUSION: Health beliefs are significantly related to adherence with health protocols in the prevention of COVID-19 transmission in the patient’s family.

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Section: Perceivedmentioning

confidence: 97%

Health Belief Associated with Adherence to Health Protocol in Preventing Coronavirus Diseases on Patients’ Family

Fikriana¹,

Fahrany²,

Rusli³

2021

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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“…Mental health problems, such as high anxiety, during the epidemic may produce protective behaviors or compensatory behaviors ( Wheaton et al, 2012 ), including washing hands frequently, wearing masks, increasing cleaning of items, social distancing, and other restrictions. Protective behavior can be voluntary ( Rubin et al, 2009 ) or compliant with government regulation ( Fragkaki et al, 2021 ). In addition, people actively engage in physical activities to cope with stress and anxiety ( Ai et al, 2021 ).…”

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COVID-19, Economic Impact, Mental Health, and Coping Behaviors: A Conceptual Framework and Future Research Directions

Lin

2021

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused serious economic and social consequences. Recent research shows that the pandemic has not only caused a physical health crisis but also caused many psychological and mental crises. Based on the contemporary cognitive-behavioral models, this article offers a conceptual analysis of how the pandemic affects individual mental health and coping behaviors from the perspective of individual economic status, individual context, and social context. The analysis shows that (1) the pandemic has led to increased economic uncertainty, increased unemployment and underemployment pressure, increased income uncertainty, and different degrees of employment pressure and economic difficulties; (2) these difficulties have stimulated different levels of mental health problems, ranging from perceived insecurity (environmental, food safety, etc.), worry, fear, to stress, anxiety, depression, etc., and the mental health deterioration varies across different groups, with the symptoms of psychological distress are more obvious among disadvantageous groups; and (3) mental health problems have caused behavior changes, and various stress behaviors such as protective behaviors and resistive behaviors. Future research directions are suggested.

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“…Given that individuals' adherence is the key factor in the effectiveness of these measures ( Fragkaki et al, 2021 ), compliance with recommended behavior is a variable of great importance to scholars and practitioners during the pandemic. However, “ little is known about what distinguishes those who comply from those who do not ” ( Zhang et al, 2021 , p. 168).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, “ little is known about what distinguishes those who comply from those who do not ” ( Zhang et al, 2021 , p. 168). This has led to an urgent call for research by several scholars to understand individual differences that lead to differences in pandemic-related intentions and behaviors ( Fragkaki et al, 2021 ; Stosic et al, 2021 ; Van Bavel et al, 2020 ). In answering this call, our research aims to investigate what makes consumers more or less concerned about COVID-19, given that consumers' concern is a key variable to understand their compliance ( Kwon et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating tolerance of uncertainty, COVID-19 concern, and compliance with recommended behavior in four countries: The moderating role of mindfulness, trust in scientists, and power distance

Matta

Rogova

Luna-Cortés

2022

Personality and Individual Differences

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Consumers' compliance with recommended behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic helps contain the spread of the virus and positively impacts marketplace outcomes. This study investigates the effect of consumers' tolerance of uncertainty on COVID-19 concern, compliance with recommended behavior, and panic buying intentions, across four countries (Germany and USA with a low power distance index; India and The Philippines with a high power distance index; N = 1272). We test the moderating role of power distance, mindfulness, and trust in scientists, among these relationships. Our results show that tolerance of uncertainty is negatively associated with COVID-19 concern, and COVID-19 concern is positively associated with compliance and panic buying intentions. In high power distance countries, tolerance of uncertainty is negatively associated with compliance. The negative association of tolerance of uncertainty with COVID-19 concern is more pronounced at low levels of mindfulness, and consumers with high COVID-19 concern and high trust in scientists demonstrated the highest compliance. Our findings reveal that stressing the importance of mindfulness, though positive overall, might not yield more compliance. Interventions to make consumers more concerned about the consequences of the pandemic and, at the same time, enhancing their trust in scientists, can lead to higher levels of compliance.

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Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety

Cited by 65 publications

References 11 publications

Health Belief Associated with Adherence to Health Protocol in Preventing Coronavirus Diseases on Patients’ Family

Health Belief Associated with Adherence to Health Protocol in Preventing Coronavirus Diseases on Patients’ Family

COVID-19, Economic Impact, Mental Health, and Coping Behaviors: A Conceptual Framework and Future Research Directions

Investigating tolerance of uncertainty, COVID-19 concern, and compliance with recommended behavior in four countries: The moderating role of mindfulness, trust in scientists, and power distance

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