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Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey

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LIEBEROTH Andreas LIN Shiang-Yi STÖCKLI Sabrina HAN Hyemin KOWAL Marta GELPI Rebekah CHRONA Stavroula TRAN Thao Phuong JEFTIĆ Alma RASMUSSEN Jesper CAKAL Huseyin MILFONT Taciano L. YAMADA Yuki AMIN Rizwana DEBOVE Stephane FLIS Ivan SAHIN Hafize TURK Fidan YEH Yao-Yuan HO Yuen Wan SIKKA Pilleriin DELGADO-GARCIA Guillermo LACKO David SALOMÉ Mamede OULMANN Zerhouni JARNO Tuominen BIRCAN Tuba WANG Austin Horng-En IKIZER Gozde LINS Samuel STUDZINSKA Anna KAMAL UDDIN Muhammad PÉREZ-GAY JUÁREZ Fernanda CHEN Fang-Yu SANLI Aybegum Memisoglu LYS Agnieszka E. REYNOSO-ALCÁNTARA Vicenta GONZÁLEZ Rubén Flores GRIFFIN Amanda RAFAEL Claudio LÓPEZ Castro NEZKUSILOVA Jana ĆEPULIĆ Dominik-Borna AQUINO Sibele MAROT Tiago A. BLACKBURN Angélique M. BOULLU Lois BAVOLAR Jozef KACMAR Pavol WU Charles K.S. AREIAS Joao Carlos NATIVIDADE Jean C. MARI Silvia AHMED Oli DRANSEIKA Vilius CRISTOFORI Irene COLL-MARTÍN Tao EICHEL Kristina KUMAGA Raisa ERMAGAN-CAGLAR Eda BAMWESIGYE Dastan TAG Benjamin CONTRERAS-IBÁNEZ Carlos C. ARUTA John Jamir Benzon R. NAIDU Priyanka A. DILEKLER Ilknur ČENĚK Jiří ISLAM Md. Nurul CH'NG Brendan SECHI Cristina NEBEL Steve SAYILAN Gülden JHA Shruti VESTERGREN Sara IHAYA Keiko GUILLAUME Gautreau TRAVAGLINO Giovanni A. RACHEV Nikolay R. HANUSZ Krzysztof PÍRKO Martin WEST J. Noë CYRUS-LAI Wilson NAJMUSSAQIB Arooj ROMANO Eugenia NOREIKA Valdas MUSLIU Arian SUNGAILAITE Emilija KOSA Mehmet LENTOOR Antonio G. SINHA Nidhi BENDER Andrew R. MESHI Dar BHANDARI Pratik BYRNE Grace KALINOVA Kalina HUBENÁ Barbora NINAUS Manuel DÍAZ Carlos SCARPACI Alessia KOSZAŁKOWSKA Karolina PANKOWSKI Daniel YANEVA Teodora MORALES-IZQUIERDO Sara UZELAC Ena LEE Yookyung HRISTOVA Dayana HAKIM Moh Abdul DESCHRIJVER Eliane KAVANAGH Phillip S. SHATA Aya REYNA Cecilia DE LEON Gabriel A. TISOCCO Franco MOLA Débora Jeanette SHANI Maor MAHLUNGULU Samkelisiwe OZERY Daphna Hausman CANIËLS Marjolein C.J. CORREA Pablo Sebastián ORTIZ María Victoria VILAR Roosevelt MAKAVEEVA Tsvetelina PUMMERER Lotte NIKOLOVA Irina BUJIĆ Mila SZEBENI Zea PENNATO Tiziana TARANU Mihaela MARTINEZ Liz CAPELOS Tereza BELAUS Anabel DUBROV Dmitrii

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Royal Society Open Science
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.200589
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200589
Keywords stress; COVID-19; social psychology; compliance behaviour; trust; worry
Description The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psychological responses differ across countries and cultures, and how this has impacted behaviour, coping and trust in government efforts to slow the spread of the virus. Starting in March 2020, COVIDiSTRESS leveraged the convenience of unpaid online recruitment to generate public data. The objective of the present analysis is to understand relationships between psychological responses in the early months of global coronavirus restrictions and help understand how different government measures succeed or fail in changing public behaviour. There were variations between and within countries. Although Western Europeans registered as more concerned over COVID-19, more stressed, and having slightly more trust in the governments' efforts, there was no clear geographical pattern in compliance with behavioural measures. Detailed plots illustrating between-countries differences are provided. Using both traditional and Bayesian analyses, we found that individuals who worried about getting sick worked harder to protect themselves and others. However, concern about the coronavirus itself did not account for all of the variances in experienced stress during the early months of COVID-19 restrictions. More alarmingly, such stress was associated with less compliance. Further, those most concerned over the coronavirus trusted in government measures primarily where policies were strict. While concern over a disease is a source of mental distress, other factors including strictness of protective measures, social support and personal lockdown conditions must also be taken into consideration to fully appreciate the psychological impact of COVID-19 and to understand why some people fail to follow behavioural guidelines intended to protect themselves and others from infection. The Stage 1 manuscript associated with this submission received in-principle acceptance (IPA) on 18 May 2020. Following IPA, the accepted Stage 1 version of the manuscript was preregistered on the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/g2t3b. This preregistration was performed prior to data analysis.

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