Leblanc-Sirois Yanick, Gagnon Marie-Ève, Blanchette Isabelle
Départment of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada.
School of Psychology, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 7;13:883995. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.883995. eCollection 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic was expected to cause intense affective reactions. This situation provided a unique opportunity to examine the characteristics and correlates of emotions in a real-world context with great significance. Our study aimed to describe the progression of positive and negative affective states during the pandemic, and to investigate which affective states predicted compliance with public health measures. We undertook a survey of affective states in the province of Quebec at the beginning, the peak, and the aftermath of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We recruited 530 responders; 154 responded to all three surveys. We used self-report scales to measure affective states and compliance with public health measures. We then computed separate linear regressions for the three phases of our study, with compliance with health measures as the dependent variable. Affective states were generally most intense at the beginning of the pandemic. Fear-related pandemic-related affective states reliably predicted compliance with public health measures in the three phases of our study. Positively valenced affective states related to the societal response also contributed predictive value, but only at the peak of the first wave.
预计新冠疫情会引发强烈的情感反应。这种情况提供了一个独特的机会，可在具有重大意义的现实背景下研究情绪的特征及相关因素。我们的研究旨在描述疫情期间积极和消极情感状态的变化过程，并调查哪些情感状态能预测对公共卫生措施的遵守情况。我们在新冠疫情第一波的初期、高峰期和后期对魁北克省的情感状态进行了一项调查。我们招募了530名受访者；其中154人对所有三项调查都做出了回应。我们使用自我报告量表来测量情感状态以及对公共卫生措施的遵守情况。然后，我们针对研究的三个阶段分别进行线性回归分析，将对卫生措施的遵守情况作为因变量。情感状态在疫情初期通常最为强烈。在我们研究的三个阶段中，与疫情相关的恐惧类情感状态可靠地预测了对公共卫生措施的遵守情况。与社会反应相关的积极情感状态也具有预测价值，但仅在第一波疫情的高峰期如此。
