Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have issued several guidelines to curb the pandemic's disastrous effects. However, measures' effectiveness is dependent upon people's adherence to them. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the potential factors that expla...
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| description | Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have issued several guidelines to curb the pandemic's disastrous effects. However, measures' effectiveness is dependent upon people's adherence to them. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the potential factors that explain guideline adherence. In the present brief research report, we investigated need for structure and trait victimhood, i.e., the tendency to feel like a victim, and their effect on fear of the pandemic, which in turn, predicted guideline adherence. Furthermore, the association between fear and guideline adherence was shaped by participants' global self-efficacy: higher levels of self-efficacy predicted more guideline adherence regardless of fear levels. The present findings may be relevant to health messaging endeavors aiming to improve compliance with guidelines. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7434a6802a3c44d9b5b8ea457dc7749b2022-12-21T20:28:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-11-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.576450576450Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health GuidelinesYossi Maaravi0Boaz Hameiri1Tamar Gur2Tamar Gur3Interdisciplinary Center, The Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, Herzliya, IsraelThe Evens Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelPsychology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IsraelInterdisciplinary Center, School of Psychology, Herzliya, IsraelFollowing the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have issued several guidelines to curb the pandemic's disastrous effects. However, measures' effectiveness is dependent upon people's adherence to them. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the potential factors that explain guideline adherence. In the present brief research report, we investigated need for structure and trait victimhood, i.e., the tendency to feel like a victim, and their effect on fear of the pandemic, which in turn, predicted guideline adherence. Furthermore, the association between fear and guideline adherence was shaped by participants' global self-efficacy: higher levels of self-efficacy predicted more guideline adherence regardless of fear levels. The present findings may be relevant to health messaging endeavors aiming to improve compliance with guidelines.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576450/fullcoronavirusCOVID-19mental rigidityneed for closureneed for structurevictimhood |
| spellingShingle | Yossi Maaravi Boaz Hameiri Tamar Gur Tamar Gur Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines Frontiers in Psychology coronavirus COVID-19 mental rigidity need for closure need for structure victimhood |
| title | Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines |
| title_full | Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines |
| title_fullStr | Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines |
| title_short | Fighting Coronavirus One Personality at a Time: Need for Structure, Trait Victimhood, and Adherence to COVID-19 Health Guidelines |
| title_sort | fighting coronavirus one personality at a time need for structure trait victimhood and adherence to covid 19 health guidelines |
| topic | coronavirus COVID-19 mental rigidity need for closure need for structure victimhood |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576450/full |
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