ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
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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- Beyond the home: how pet ownership drives stray animal rescue willingness through empathy and moral obligation.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Online profiling of volunteers in public health emergencies: insights from COVID-19 in China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Optimizing immersive learning in crisis management: cognitive and psychological mechanisms of VR training.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Topic modeling and sentiment analysis of Chinese people's attitudes toward volunteerism amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
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,
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