Dealing With the Covid-19 Pandemic
How Defense Strategies Relate to Empathic Reactions During Lockdowns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefanie Hechler (0000-0001-7974-4667, German Center for Integration and Migration Research), Clarissa Wendel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Dana Schneider (0000-0001-9648-7017, Friedrich Schiller University Jena) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 66-77 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590 |
| Publisher | Hogrefe Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1027/1864-9335/a000501 |
| OpenAlex | W4323058782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
The COVID-19 pandemic with its substantial changes to social life affects social cognitions, which are important for solidarity during a global crisis. We investigated how distal defense strategies for dealing with threat, perceived threat, and contact experiences relate to people's empathic reactions during lockdowns in two countries. In three studies ( N = 1,332), we found that more experienced threat is associated with higher personal distress. In Germany, but not in the United Kingdom, people who applied social defenses reported more empathic concern. Additionally, general positive contact experiences related positively to empathic concern and perspective taking. These other-directed empathic reactions correlated highly with solidarity with others across all studies. The findings indicate that people's empathy changes with their social experiences during this global crisis
Cognition · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Distress · Empathic concern · Empathy · Just-world hypothesis · Pandemic · Personal distress · Perspective (graphical · Perspective-taking · Political science · Psychiatry · Social cognition · Social distance · Solidarity · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Medicine · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Clinical Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |