Public perception of risk and coping response to COVID-19 in China: The moderating role of negative emotion

Gan, Yinbo; Quan, Zhiyue

doi:10.1080/14330237.2021.1903167

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“…This is well-understood. From a psychological point of view, emotion is a key factor affecting attitude [56]. Research using Weibo as the source of emotional data showed that negative emotions significantly enhanced public risk perceptions in both the COVID-19 pandemic and haze [22,57].…”

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Development and Validation of the Haze Risk Perception Scale and Influencing Factor Scale—A Study Based on College Students in Beijing

Zhang

Chen

Wei

et al. 2022

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Although Beijing’s air quality has improved, there is still a long way to go for haze governance. In order to understand haze risk perception and related influencing factors among college students in Beijing, we developed and verified two scales, with college students as the survey object, and analyzed the theoretical framework and realistic level of haze risk perception and influencing factors through empirical research. We showed that the reliability and validity of the two scales are excellent, and they can be used as a powerful tool to measure college students’ perception of haze. The haze risk perception scale (HRPS) is divided into four dimensions. The degrees of perception ranked from high to low are: direct consequences perception, indirect consequences perception, risk responsibility perception and risk source perception. The haze risk perception influencing factor scale (HRPIFS) is divided into three dimensions. The degrees of influence ranked from high to low are: personal emotion, media communication and government policy; the three influencing factors all have a significant positive correlation to overall haze risk perception, but personal emotions and media communication are only significantly related to the three dimensions of direct consequence perception, indirect consequence perception and risk source perception. Government policy is only significantly related to the three dimensions of direct consequence perception, indirect consequence perception and risk liability perception. This paper proves the important role of media in haze risk perception and puts forward some policy suggestions to guide the public to form a rational risk perception. These findings can help improve theoretical and practical research related to haze risk.

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Section: Discussion Of Empirical Research Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development and Validation of the Haze Risk Perception Scale and Influencing Factor Scale—A Study Based on College Students in Beijing

Zhang

Chen

Wei

et al. 2022

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“…For example, it is notable a relationship between emotions and some coping strategies (Pachter et al, 2013 ). Indeed, regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic context, several studies have confirmed the mediating role of emotions on coping strategies (Gan & Fu, 2022 ; Gan et al, 2021 ). On the other hand, it may be important to examine coping strategies from a different point of view and to analyze whether they may be considered adaptive or maladaptive as mediators of the relationship between perceived stress and PTSD symptoms in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.…”

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The longitudinal association between Perceived Stress, PTSD Symptoms, and Post-Traumatic Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: the role of coping strategies and psychological inflexibility

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The present study investigates the mediating roles of psychological inflexibility and differential coping strategies on perceived stress and post-traumatic symptoms and growth in the context of COVID-19. Study one recruited 662 participants (54.8% women; Mage = 40.64 years, SD = 13.04) who completed a cross-sectional questionnaire. It was proposed that orientation to the problem, avoidance strategies, psychological inflexibility, and positive attitude were mediators for the positive association between perceived stress and PTSD symptoms. The fit indices for the path model were excellent: CFI = 0.977, TLI = 0.950, RMSEA = 0.057 [90%CI = 0.043–0.081], and SRMS = 0.042. Gender and stressful events encountered had indirect effects on the endogenous variables. In study two, 128 participants (57.8% women; Mage = 42.30, SD = 12.08) were assessed for post-traumatic growth one year later. Psychological inflexibility and orientation acted as mediators between perceived stress and PTSD symptoms. Furthermore, a novel path model was constructed in which psychological inflexibility and orientation to the problem as mediators for perceived stress and PTSD symptoms. The indices for the path model were excellent: CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.97, RMSEA = 0.055 [90%CI = 0.001–0.144], and SRMS = 0.49. Furthermore, PTSD symptoms, psychological inflexibility, and orientation to the problem predicted post-traumatic growth. Specifically, both orientation to the problem (β = .06 [90%CI: .01;.13]) and psychological inflexibility (β = .14 [90%CI: .08;.26]) had an indirect effect on post-traumatic growth. Overall, these results significantly contribute to the literature as orientation to the problem positively predicted PTSD symptoms and post-traumatic growth one year later while psychological inflexibility predicted PTSD symptoms and less post-traumatic growth one year later. These results underline the importance of assessing both symptomology and psychological growth to determine adaptive coping strategies in specific contexts.

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“…Meanwhile, the message framing about disease-related knowledge may induce, or even aggravate, collective public negative emotions such as loneliness, fear, anger, and sadness (Nicola et al, 2020;Chou & Budenz, 2020;Jungmann & Witthöft, 2020;Lwin et al, 2020;Muñoz-Navarro et al, 2021;Zhong et al, 2021). During infectious disease outbreaks, knowledge levels and emotional variables still play important roles in predicting behavioral responses (Gan et al, 2021;Rattay et al, 2021). Compared with knowledge levels, emotional factors (especially negative emotions) demonstrated stronger explanatory power in predicting behavioral responses to health risks (Min et al, 2020;Pakpour & Griffiths, 2020).…”

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Mediating Effects of Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, and Negative Emotions on Coping Behaviors

Zhang

Mou

et al. 2022

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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Based on the perspectives of social risk amplification and the knowledge-attitudes-practice model, this study aimed to test how the level of knowledge about COVID-19 and information sources can predict people's behavioral changes and to examine the effect mechanisms through the mediating roles of attitude, risk perception, and negative emotions in a survey of 498 older Chinese adults. The results showed that (1) older people had a lower level of factual knowledge regarding the variant strains and vaccines; (2) in the information sources-behavior, information sources had a critical influence on elderly individuals' coping behaviors; and (3) in the knowledge-behavior, factual knowledge had a significant effect on elderly individuals' coping behaviors. Specifically, for prevention behaviors, both risk perception and negative emotions played full mediating roles. The findings have significant implications for the development of an effective COVID-19 prevention program to older adults coping with pandemic conditions.

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Public perception of risk and coping response to COVID-19 in China: The moderating role of negative emotion

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Development and Validation of the Haze Risk Perception Scale and Influencing Factor Scale—A Study Based on College Students in Beijing

Development and Validation of the Haze Risk Perception Scale and Influencing Factor Scale—A Study Based on College Students in Beijing

The longitudinal association between Perceived Stress, PTSD Symptoms, and Post-Traumatic Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: the role of coping strategies and psychological inflexibility

Mediating Effects of Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, and Negative Emotions on Coping Behaviors

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