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Attention Jan 09, 2022 at 11:29 PM
 
Here's an interesting article on emotions related to the pandemic - anxiety and anger: Frontiers | Anxious and Angry: Emotional Responses to the COVID-19 Threat | Psychology

The article discusses the following key points concerning the determinants of coronavirus anxiety:

The authors conducted cross-sectional research in April 2020 in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, which consisted of 2,031 participants who answered surveys. Their summarized findings found in the abstract section of their article:
Quote:
Results showed that

(1) anxiety related to COVID-19 is associated with conspiracy beliefs, anger at the government, and populist attitudes, and
(2) support for and compliance with hygiene measures are both positively predicted by anxiety related to COVID-19;
however, (3) support for hygiene measures is also predicted by populist attitudes and negatively by conspiracy mentalities, whereas compliance with hygiene measures is more strongly predicted by anger at transgressors (anger at people transgressing the hygiene measures).

Consequently, although anxiety related to COVID-19 concerns the health of individual people, it also has political and social implications: anxiety is associated with an increase in anger, either at transgressors or the government.
The authors explain the following key concepts in their research (see the article for more details):

Covid threat:

a. Anxiety about covid.

b. The Role of Anxiety in Responses to the COVID-19 Threat:

b-1. Terror management theory
b-2. Conservative shift hypothesis

c. Conspiracy Mentality and Populism:

c-1. Conspiracy theories
c-2. Conspiracy endorsement
c-3. Existential Threat Model of Conspiracies
c-4. Populism
c-5. Political extremism
c-6. Mortality salience:
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Anxious individuals may show two different types of responses: avoiding the threat by complying with hygiene measures or fighting the threat, either by showing anger at the government and adhering to populist mindsets or by denying or trivializing the threat (conspiracy beliefs). There is indeed strong evidence for the ability of anxiety to strengthen populist attitudes, as indicated by the increase of in-group favoritism and out-group hostility (Rosenblatt et al., 1989; Greenberg et al., 1990; Schimel et al., 1999), but also conspiracy beliefs (e.g., Grzesiak-Feldman, 2013; Swami et al., 2016; Hollander, 2018).
I found this article interesting because it highlights some of the reasons we see possible reasons motivating people's compliance with public safety measures and those who are not compliant with public safety measures.

This research was conducted before the phenomenon of pandemic fatigue became an issue, which may affect compliance.

However, traumatic experiences (medical traumas, traumatic grief, racial traumas related to this pandemic) can also affect compliance, which wasn't really emphasized in this article.

It's interesting how some people remain in denial.
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