The relationship between risk perception of COVID-19 and willingness to help: A moderated mediation model

Zeng, Yadi; Xiao, Gensen; Ye, Baojuan; Zhang, Yanzhen; Liu, Mingfan; Wang, Xinqiang; Yang, Qiang

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106493

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“…Risk perception refers to the psychological state in which individuals perceive external risks and reflect their intuitive judgment, subjective feelings, and responses to the external environment. Numerous studies have previously demonstrated that risk perception is an important factor that influences individual decision-making behavior [23][24][25], and according to the planned behavior theory and the technology acceptance theory, behavioral intention is a key determinant of behavior occurrence, whereby risk perception equally influences the subject's behavioral intention [26][27][28]. Small-scale farmers are subject to various influences from external policy, market, and natural environments while managing their bamboo forests.…”

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How to Promote Sustainable Bamboo Forest Management: An Empirical Study from Small-Scale Farmers in China

Huang,

Hou,

Ren

et al. 2023

Forests

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Bamboo is an important agroforestry and forest plant managed and utilized by rural communities in some countries in the Asia Pacific region, which can generate various benefits to meet social and environmental needs. In rural areas of China, as a large number of forest land management rights have been allocated to small-scale farmers, the willingness of small-scale farmers to reinvest in bamboo forest management has become a key factor for bamboo forest ecosystems to be able to sustainably supply quality ecosystem services. Therefore, it is necessary to answer the question of how to enhance small-scale farmers’ willingness to reinvest in bamboo forest management in the current policy and market context. Combining the prospect theory, the mindsponge theory, the theory of planned behavior (TPB), and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this study constructs theoretical models of perceived property rights security, perceived bamboo forest certification, government support, group decision making, risk perception, perceived value, geographic conditions, and resource endowment affecting willingness to reinvest in bamboo forest management. Based on 1090 questionnaires from a field study in Fujian, China, in 2021, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the theoretical model. The results show that, under the current policy and market environment, government support is the key to enhance small-scale farmers’ willingness to reinvest in bamboo forest management, and their perception of ecological certification also has a facilitating effect on small-scale farmers’ willingness to reinvest in bamboo forest management, in which risk perception plays a significant mediating role. The government can enhance small-scale farmers’ willingness to reinvest in bamboo forest management by maintaining stable land property rights policies, increasing the publicity and promotion of bamboo forest certification, and enhancing information exchange among farmers.

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Section: Risk Perception (Rp) and Reinvestment Willingness (Rw)mentioning

confidence: 99%

How to Promote Sustainable Bamboo Forest Management: An Empirical Study from Small-Scale Farmers in China

Huang,

Hou,

Ren

et al. 2023

Forests

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“…Interpersonal alienation is defined as the negative emotional experience of individuals who have been forgotten or isolated by relatives, friends, classmates, or other interpersonal networks in interpersonal interaction (Yang & Wu, 2002; Zeng, Xiao, Ye et al ., 2022). Empirical studies have shown that autistic people or nonautistic people with high levels of autistic traits struggle to maintain and develop relationships (Pugliese, Fritz & White, 2015; Sosnowy, Silverman, Shattuck & Garfield, 2019; Toseeb, McChesney, Oldfield & Wolke, 2020).…”

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Autistic traits predict social avoidance and distress: The chain mediating role of perceived stress and interpersonal alienation

Shen

Kong

et al. 2023

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Social avoidance and distress are the primary aspects of social anxiety. Nonautistic people with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to exhibit social avoidance and distress. However, research has yet to reveal how autistic traits induce social avoidance and distress. To fill this gap, the present study recruited 708 participants to complete the 25‐item Autism Spectrum Quotient, Social Avoidance and Distress Scale, Chinese Perceived Stress Scale, and Interpersonal Alienation Subscale. The results indicated that autistic traits significantly predicted social avoidance and distress in nonautistic people. In addition, autistic traits induced social avoidance and distress through perceived stress and interpersonal alienation, respectively. Importantly, perceived stress and interpersonal alienation (including the subdimensions of interpersonal alienation: sense of loneliness, sense of social isolation, and alienation between family members) partially mediated the relationships between autistic traits and social avoidance and distress. Overall, autistic traits predict social avoidance and distress via perceived stress and interpersonal alienation. This finding extends the hypothetical model of clinical anxiety in autism spectrum disorders. Furthermore, reducing perceived stress and interpersonal alienation in nonautistic people with high levels of autistic traits may be a valid intervention method to prevent and eliminate their social avoidance and distress.

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“…Risk perception is an important factor that influencing individual behaviors. Previous studies found that risk perception influences willingness to engage in volunteer behaviors during a pandemic ( 26 , 27 ) and helping behaviors during COVID-19 ( 28 ). People were exposed to risks of COVID-19 during its epidemic, and there is no doubt that engaging in COVID-19 volunteer activities increases this risk.…”

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The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Risk Perception on the Relationship Between Empathy and COVID-19 Volunteer Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Study in Jiangsu, China

Zhu

Zhuang

Liu

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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The health system has encountered great challenges since the COVID-19 outbreak, volunteers are urgently needed in every situation during this crisis. The current study aimed to explore the relationship between empathy and COVID-19 volunteer behavior, along with the moderating role of COVID-19 risk perception in the above relationship. The cross-sectional survey was conducted online using Wenjuanxing from February 12th to March 16th, 2021, in Jiangsu, China. A total of 1,486 participants completed the Toronto Empathy COVID-19 volunteer behavior and COVID-19 risk perception questionnaires. The SPSS PROCESS macro was yielded to examine the moderating effect. Simple slopes analysis was conducted to detect the associations between empathy and COVID-19 volunteer behavior at three levels of the COVID-19 risk perception. The Johnson-Neyman (J-N) technique was used to calculate where the moderating effect is significance. Results showed that empathy was positively related with COVID-19 volunteer behavior (β= 0.080, p < 0.001). COVID-19 risk perception played a moderation effect on association between empathy and COVID-19 volunteer behavior (β = −0.005, p < 0.001), the greater the levels of COVID-19 risk perception, the weaker the associations between empathy and COVID-19 volunteer behavior. The J-N test showed the association between empathy and COVID-19 volunteer behavior was no longer significant when values of COVID-19 risk perception was >10.71. Current findings could enlighten researchers and policy makers, that fostering volunteerism among public during crisis situation through arousing more empathy and reducing unnecessary risk perception of the public.

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The relationship between risk perception of COVID-19 and willingness to help: A moderated mediation model

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

How to Promote Sustainable Bamboo Forest Management: An Empirical Study from Small-Scale Farmers in China

How to Promote Sustainable Bamboo Forest Management: An Empirical Study from Small-Scale Farmers in China

Autistic traits predict social avoidance and distress: The chain mediating role of perceived stress and interpersonal alienation

The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Risk Perception on the Relationship Between Empathy and COVID-19 Volunteer Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Study in Jiangsu, China

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