Risk Perception, Perceived Government Coping Validity, and Individual Response in the Early Stage of the Covid-19 Pandemic in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15466932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Xu (0000-0002-6487-6664, Zhejiang Normal University, corresponding author), Mengyuan Shao (Zhejiang Normal University), Ruiquan Liu (0000-0002-0205-0058, Zhejiang Normal University), Xiaoqin Wu (0000-0003-1381-476X, Zhejiang Normal University), Kai Zheng (0000-0003-4121-4948, Hubei Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1982-1982 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph20031982 |
| PMID | 36767349 |
| OpenAlex | W4317728339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 60 |
As a major crisis event, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the global economy, threatened the lives of the public, and caused varying degrees of impact on the public. Previous studies have shown that risk perception and government response had different impacts on the public, but they revealed more about the independent impact of risk perception and government response on the public. This study will comprehensively consider the impacts of these two factors on the behavior of the public in the early stage of the epidemic. We analyzed data from an online survey in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in China and categorized individual behaviors into three dimensions: entertainment and travel, work, and the stockpile of supplies. In addition, we defined the risk perception variables by two dimensions: knowledge of the epidemic itself and knowledge of the consequences of the epidemic. At the same time, we used an exploratory factor analysis to construct the variable of perceived government coping validity and then adopted the ordinal logit model for analysis. The results showed that in terms of entertainment and travel, people would not be affected even if they fully understood the epidemic itself; once they were aware of the negative social consequences of the epidemic, people would suspend entertainment and travel to prevent the spread of the virus. As for work or employment, people would not stop working or employment even if they realized the infectivity and harmfulness of the disease and its social consequences. Furthermore, fear of COVID-19 and the perception of uncontrolled COVID-19 significantly positively affected people's material stockpiling behavior. These results indicate that different risk perceptions had different effects on individual responses, and individual behaviors reflected different coping logics. In addition, the government's effective response to the epidemic would significantly reduce the negative impacts of the epidemic on the three dimensions of people's responses. These conclusions have certain policy implications for preventing and responding to outbreaks in other countries
Coping (psychology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Developmental psychology · Disease · Exploratory factor analysis · Government (linguistics · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Ordered logit · Pandemic · Perception · Risk perception · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |