Rojas-Méndez José I
Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 6;12:737917. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.737917. eCollection 2021.
This paper examines the influence of socio-economic and cultural dimensions (measured at the country level) on what concerns people the most about the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on secondary data, the study considers the opinion of more than 24,000 individuals living in 30 different countries, with national samples weighted to match each country's general population older than 18years of age. A set of linear Bayesian regressions was applied to 10 different types of worries reported for economic, health, and safety domains. Results demonstrate that socio-economic variables and cultural dimensions complement each other in explaining people's concerns about the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. An overall view of the analysis also reveals that cultural dimensions exceed socio-economic variables in explaining peoples' worries about health and safety domains. Socio-economic variables are slightly more effective in explaining the worries of the economic domain. Among the cultural dimensions, long-term orientation and uncertainty avoidance are the best in explaining people's worries. The higher the score in long-term orientation, the lower the worry levels expressed by the respondents. Likewise, low scores on uncertainty avoidance generate lower levels of worries due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Finally, health worries produce a positive outcome because they explain a significant reduction in the fatality rate.
本文考察了社会经济和文化维度（在国家层面进行衡量）对人们最关注的新冠疫情相关问题的影响。基于二手数据，该研究考虑了居住在30个不同国家的24000多名个人的意见，对各国样本进行加权以匹配每个国家18岁以上的普通人群。对经济、健康和安全领域报告的10种不同类型的担忧进行了一组线性贝叶斯回归分析。结果表明，社会经济变量和文化维度在解释人们对新冠疫情影响的担忧方面相互补充。分析的总体情况还显示，在解释人们对健康和安全领域的担忧方面，文化维度超过了社会经济变量。社会经济变量在解释经济领域的担忧方面略为有效。在文化维度中，长期取向和不确定性规避在解释人们的担忧方面表现最佳。长期取向得分越高，受访者表达的担忧水平越低。同样，不确定性规避得分低会因新冠疫情而产生较低的担忧水平。最后，健康担忧产生了积极的结果，因为它们解释了死亡率的显著下降。
