ArticleBritish journal of health psychology2020
Environmental and psychological variables influencing reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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- The relationship between risk perceptions and negative emotions in the COVID-19: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
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- Factors influencing risk perception during Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEIC): a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- I want to be safe: understanding the main drivers behind vaccination choice throughout the pandemic.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Impact of COVID-19 vaccination on preventive behavior: The importance of confounder adjustment in observational studies.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Exploring People's Perception of COVID-19 Risk: A Case Study of Greater Jakarta, Indonesia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- People's perspectives about COVID-19 vaccination certificate: Findings from a representative Italian sample.Vaccine · 2022Article
- Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on mental health and future orientation among young adult asylum seekers in Italy: A mixed-methods study.Transcultural psychiatry · 2022Article
- Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress during lockdown due to COVID-19.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2022Article
- Risk perceptions and COVID-19 protective behaviors: A two-wave longitudinal study of epidemic and post-epidemic periods.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Worry and behaviour at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak: Results from three UK surveys (the COVID-19 rapid survey of Adherence to Interventions and responses [CORSAIR] study).Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- The Relationship Between Barriers and Drivers of COVID-19 Protective Behaviors in Germany and the UK.International journal of public health · 2022Review
- The Effects of Information-Seeking Behaviors on Risk Perception During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Correlational Survey.Psychology research and behavior management · 2022Article
- Madness of the crowd: Understanding mass behaviors through a multidisciplinary lens.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Risk Perception, Perception of Collective Efficacy and Sleep Quality in Chinese Adults during COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The four weeks before lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: a weekly serial cross-sectional survey on risk perceptions, knowledge, public trust and behaviour, 3 to 25 March 2020.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2021Article
- Emotion regulation, psychological distress and demographic characteristics from an Ecuadorian sample: Data from the lockdown due to COVID-19.Data in brief · 2021Article
- Psychological Factors Affecting Risk Perception of COVID-19: Evidence from Peru and China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe COVID-19 outbreak in Italy caused a major health emergency and high uncertainty. We studied how media outlets, risk perception, state anxiety, and emotion regulation impacted peoples' reactions and undertaking of protective behaviours aimed at reducing the spread of the virus.
designData were collected in two cross-sectional waves (N = 992 at T1; N = 1031 at T2): at the beginning of the outbreak and once the national lockdown was imposed.
methodsParticipants completed online surveys on their perception of the COVID-19 outbreak. Moreover, they were asked to self-report on their emotion regulation, state anxiety, and protective behaviours.
resultsMedia exposure and wave predicted risk perception. An interaction between wave, risk perception, and emotion regulation predicted the number of protective behaviours people undertook. Specifically, in the second wave, the number of protective behaviours was predicted by risk perception only among those who were ineffective at regulating emotions. Instead, effective regulators undertook the same number of behaviours regardless of their level of risk perception. In the second wave, we also found that the risk perception by emotion interaction predicting protective behaviours was mediated by state anxiety.
conclusionsThe present study provides important insights on how people experienced the early stages of the outbreak. This information could prove valuable in the coming months to understand who might have been more impacted by the stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent restrictive measures.
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