Predicting the anticipated emotional and behavioral responses to an avian flu outbreak
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to develop a model to predict the emotional and behavioral responses to an avian flu outbreak. METHODS: The participants were 289 university students ranging in age, income, and ethnic backgrounds. They were presented with scenarios describing avian flu outb...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7124230 2023-05-15T15:34:07+02:00 Predicting the anticipated emotional and behavioral responses to an avian flu outbreak Smith, Bruce W. Kay, Virginia S. Hoyt, Timothy V. Bernard, Michael L. 2009-06 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124230/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19121548 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2008.08.007 en eng Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124230/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19121548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2008.08.007 Copyright © 2009 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. Article Text 2009 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2008.08.007 2020-04-12T00:37:55Z BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to develop a model to predict the emotional and behavioral responses to an avian flu outbreak. METHODS: The participants were 289 university students ranging in age, income, and ethnic backgrounds. They were presented with scenarios describing avian flu outbreaks affecting their community. They reported their anticipated emotional responses (positive emotion, negative emotion) and behavioral responses (helping, avoidance, sacrifice, illegal behavior) as if the scenarios were actually occurring. They also were assessed on individual differences expected to predict their responses. RESULTS: Participants were only modestly familiar with the avian flu and anticipated strong emotional and behavioral responses to an outbreak. Path analyses were conducted to test a model for predicting responses. The model showed that age, sex, income, spirituality, resilience, and neuroticism were related to responses. Spirituality, resilience, and income predicted better emotional responses, and neuroticism and female sex predicted worse emotional responses. Age, sex, income, and spirituality had direct effects on behavior. The emotional responses were directly related to each behavior and mediated the effects of individual differences. CONCLUSION: Emotional responses may be important in predicting behavior after an outbreak of avian flu, and personal characteristics may predict both emotional and behavioral responses. Text Avian flu PubMed Central (PMC) American Journal of Infection Control 37 5 371 380 |
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BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to develop a model to predict the emotional and behavioral responses to an avian flu outbreak. METHODS: The participants were 289 university students ranging in age, income, and ethnic backgrounds. They were presented with scenarios describing avian flu outbreaks affecting their community. They reported their anticipated emotional responses (positive emotion, negative emotion) and behavioral responses (helping, avoidance, sacrifice, illegal behavior) as if the scenarios were actually occurring. They also were assessed on individual differences expected to predict their responses. RESULTS: Participants were only modestly familiar with the avian flu and anticipated strong emotional and behavioral responses to an outbreak. Path analyses were conducted to test a model for predicting responses. The model showed that age, sex, income, spirituality, resilience, and neuroticism were related to responses. Spirituality, resilience, and income predicted better emotional responses, and neuroticism and female sex predicted worse emotional responses. Age, sex, income, and spirituality had direct effects on behavior. The emotional responses were directly related to each behavior and mediated the effects of individual differences. CONCLUSION: Emotional responses may be important in predicting behavior after an outbreak of avian flu, and personal characteristics may predict both emotional and behavioral responses. |
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Copyright © 2009 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
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