Scaletti Sara, Duarte Inês, Senra Catarina, Almeida Jorge, Ferreira António Jorge, Walbrin Jon, Pilacinski Artur
Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Port J Public Health. 2022 Apr 20;40(1):43-51. doi: 10.1159/000524076. eCollection 2022 Apr.
Perception of risk is known to change throughout the lifespan. Previous studies showed that younger adults are more prone to risk behaviours than older adults. Do these age-related differences influence risk perception during a pandemic crisis? Here, we investigated how age influenced predicted risk during the COVID-19 emergency state in Portugal. We show that time-projected estimations (e.g., appraisals based on 'now' vs. 'in two weeks' time', or 'in four weeks' time') of both risk behaviour and importance of transmission prevention decrease over time. Importantly, projected risk decreased more steeply for younger than older adults. Our findings suggest that younger adults have a different perception of epidemic-related risk than older adults. This seems to support the view that public health policy making during epidemics should differentially target younger adults.
众所周知，风险认知在整个生命周期中都会发生变化。先前的研究表明，年轻人比老年人更容易出现风险行为。这些与年龄相关的差异在大流行危机期间会影响风险认知吗？在这里，我们调查了年龄如何影响葡萄牙在新冠疫情紧急状态下对风险的预测。我们发现，随着时间的推移，对风险行为和传播预防重要性的时间预测估计（例如，基于“现在”与“两周后”或“四周后”的评估）都会下降。重要的是，年轻人的预测风险比老年人下降得更陡峭。我们的研究结果表明，年轻人对与疫情相关的风险的认知与老年人不同。这似乎支持了这样一种观点，即在疫情期间制定公共卫生政策时应区别对待年轻人。
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