Assistant Professor Tetsukazu Yahara of the Decision Science Center for Sustainable Society of Kyushu University and Tetsukazu Yahara, an academic researcher at the Graduate School of Science, investigated the relationship between the preventive behavior and personality of citizens in an online survey after the spread of the new coronavirus infection. The results required for personality-friendly infectious disease control and psychological care were obtained.
The survey was conducted online on April 4, after the government declared a state of emergency, and valid responses were collected and analyzed from 8 people nationwide.
According to it, nervous people tended to have high preventive behavior levels, stress / anxiety / depression scores, and low evaluation of other people's efforts and trust in doctors.Those with strong diligence had a high level of preventive behavior, but underestimated the risk of infection, the efforts of others, and their impact on their work.Those with high coordination tended to have low stress / anxiety scores, high confidence in survival, and high evaluation of others.
Based on these analysis results, Assistant Professor Akira and his colleagues believe that preventive behavior and psychological status vary greatly depending on personality, and that infectious disease control and psychological care that take individual differences into consideration are necessary.
Online surveys continue to be conducted once a week.Assistant Professor Akira and his colleagues scrutinized a total of 1 surveys conducted by June in chronological order, and analyzed how the mental burden, preventive behavior, consciousness, and impact on people's lives changed. There is.We expect that the analysis results will be important materials for infectious disease control and psychological care planning that take individual differences into consideration.
Paper information:[PLOS ONE] Mentality and behavior in COVID-19 emergency status in Japan: Influence of personality, morality and ideology
