Stress and Resilience Research Center, Tel-Hai College, Northern Galilee 122800, Israel.
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 7;18(8):3876. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18083876.
The current study measured national resilience (NR) in three different time frames during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Israel ( = 804). We investigated two main issues: first, the direction and extent of NR changes during the crisis, and second, the predictors of NR. The results show the following: (a) the average NR score declined significantly across the three repeated measures, with a medium-size effect. (b) Three of the four identified NR factors declined significantly across the three measurements: belief in the government and the prime minister (large effect size); belief in civil society; and patriotism (medium effect size); while trust in Israeli national institutions was the lowest and did not weaken significantly. (c) Analyzing the prediction of NR factors indicated that the levels of the three NR factors mainly reflected one's political attitudes, sense of political and economic threats, rather than health threats. One conclusion concerns the importance of trust in leadership as the most sensitive component in the decline of national resilience following a crisis.
本研究在以色列 2019 冠状病毒疾病（COVID-19）大流行期间的三个不同时间段测量了国家韧性（NR）（n=804）。我们调查了两个主要问题：首先，NR 在危机期间的变化方向和程度；其次，NR 的预测因素。结果表明：（a）NR 的平均分数在三次重复测量中显著下降，具有中等大小的效应。（b）四个确定的 NR 因素中有三个在三次测量中显著下降：对政府和总理的信任（大效应量）；对公民社会的信任；以及爱国主义（中等效应量）；而对以色列国家机构的信任则最低，且没有显著减弱。（c）分析 NR 因素的预测表明，NR 三个因素的水平主要反映了一个人的政治态度、对政治和经济威胁的感知，而不是对健康威胁的感知。一个结论涉及到对领导信任的重要性，因为在危机后国家韧性下降时，领导信任是最敏感的组成部分。
