Early in 2020 China, Japan, and dozens of other countries were busy with a terrible and deadly disease outbreak, Novel Coronavirus Diseases (COVID-19). Then, the spread of this virus is very concerned about it because of its very rapid spread through air media or fluids from the respiratory tract. This phenomenon has a significant impact on life globally. Anxiety, panic, and public fear of the virus create a new lifestyle that must be controlled by oneself. The health, economic, educational, political, social, and psychological impacts are felt by all people in all countries. The obvious psychological impact is panic buying, self-control, trust in the government, and fear of COVID19. This study aims to determine the role of fear of COVID19 and citizen trust to panic buying behavior. The research conducted using quantitative correlation methods, involving research respondents with a minimum sample of 536 people. The character of the research response was at least 18 years old and affected by Covid19. Data processing using Multiple regression with the help of SPSS software. The research result shows that panic buying build from fear of COVID and citizen trust. Both fears of covid-17 and citizen trust have a simultaneous role in panic buying. However, in the partial role only fear of covid which have a role to panic buying, while citizen trust has not role to panic buying.
Background: COVID-19 has an impact on instability in all aspects of Indonesian people's lives, one of which is the disruption of supply caused by panic buying behavior as a form of community reaction in surviving the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on this phenomenon, this study aims to determine the role of citizen trust in the government on panic buying behavior during the Pandemic COVID-19. Method: This study involved 990 participants who were Indonesian citizens, aged at least 18 years, and had been affected by the Pandemic COVID-19 (in the social, economic, educational, etc. fields). The participants obtained by using the purposive sampling technique. Citizen Trust is measured using the Citizen Trust in Government Organization (CTGO) scale belonging to Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen and Eva Knies (2015) with a reliability of 0.949 and Wijaya's panic buying (2020) with the reliability of 0.945. Research data analysis was carried out using quantitative methods with simple regression techniques. Result: The results showed that there was a role for citizen trust in the government on panic buying behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia. Conclusion: Based on the result of research conducted by researchers on 990 respondents who are Indonesian citizen (WNI), at least 18 years old and affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It can be concluded that public trust (citizen trust) to the Government is one of the factors in the formation of panic buying behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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