Kim Hee Young, Kim Sijun, Howell Taeya M, Doyle Sarah P, Pettit Nathan C, Bizzarro Michael
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Soc Psychol Personal Sci. 2023 Mar;14(2):218-227. doi: 10.1177/19485506221077858.
COVID-19 has been characterized by unprecedented levels of public gratitude to some, but not all, essential workers. In this research, we integrate insights from the stigmatized occupations and gratitude literature to build theory on the positive negative relationships between such displays of public gratitude and essential workers' recovery activities. We argue that felt public gratitude positively relates to recovery activities (e.g., exercise) and negatively relates to recovery activities (e.g., overdrinking). We further explain how felt public gratitude impacts (mal)adaptive recovery activities through (a) felt invisibility and (b) negative/positive affect. We find support for our predictions in a two-wave survey of 186 corrections officers (Study 1) and an experiment with 379 essential workers across a variety of industries (Study 2).
新冠疫情的一个特点是，公众对部分（而非全部）一线工作者表现出了前所未有的感激之情。在本研究中，我们整合了来自遭受污名化职业和感恩文献的见解，以构建关于公众感激之情的表达与一线工作者恢复活动之间正负关系的理论。我们认为，感受到的公众感激与积极的恢复活动（如锻炼）呈正相关，与消极的恢复活动（如过度饮酒）呈负相关。我们进一步解释了感受到的公众感激如何通过（a）感到被忽视和（b）消极/积极情绪影响（适应不良的）恢复活动。我们在对186名惩教人员的两波调查（研究1）以及对379名不同行业一线工作者的实验（研究2）中验证了我们的预测。
