Modeling recent gun purchases: A social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race

Hill, Terrence D.; Wen, Ming; Ellison, Christopher G.; Wu, Guangzhen; Dowd‐Arrow, Benjamin; Su, Dejun

doi:10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101634

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“…A total of 2,709 web-based responses were collected, constituting a weighted sample from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). NORC conducted weighting procedures to align the distributions of the study sample with the broader sociodemographic distribution of the U.S. in order to better approximate a nationally representative sample [15][16][17][18] . The NORC Institutional Review Board reviewed and approved this study (NORC IRB Protocol #20.10.43), and obtained written informed consent from each participant.…”

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Gender difference in working from home and psychological distress - A national survey of U.S. employees during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated broad and extensive changes in the way people live and work. While the general subject of working from home has recently drawn increased attention, few studies have assessed gender differences in vulnerability to the potential mental health effects of working from home. Using data from 1,585 workers who participated in the Health, Ethnicity, and Pandemic (HEAP) study, a national survey conducted in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020, associations of working from home with psychological distress were examined with weighted logistic regression among 1,585 workers and stratified by gender. It was found that workers who worked from home had higher odds of psychological distress

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“…It was not possible to determine which households acquired firearms during the pandemic and which acquired firearms previously. Work by Hill et al (2021), however, determined that pandemic gun purchasers were demographically distinct in some ways. They were more likely to be male, less educated, live in the South and to have experienced recent change in religious views or employment.…”

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“…However, this study also found that households experiencing more COVID-related transitions in employment or childcare were also more likely to report gun ownership in 2021. Hill et al (2021) also noted that change in employment was associated with pandemic gun purchases. In the current study, this association was no longer apparent in 2022.…”

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Teen firearm access during COVID: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of Pennsylvania families

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Purpose This study aims to investigate patterns in adolescent gun access and household gun storage in 2021 and 2022. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from two cross-sectional surveys of Pennsylvania parents with a teenage child at home. Findings The results indicated that about 20% of gun owners in each survey stored their guns loaded; a similar percentage stored their guns unlocked. Very few gun owners reported that their children could access their guns without adult supervision. This study found no change in gun storage practices between 2021 and 2022, but higher rates of gun ownership in 2022. The factors associated with gun storage behaviors did change between the two time points. COVID-related uncertainties and transitions in the household were linked to gun ownership and less safe storage practices in 2021, but not in 2022. Originality/value This study identified factors associated with teen gun access at distinct points during the pandemic. This study found little evidence of any association between child mental health and household firearm storage.

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“…The extent to which safety motives are associated with political or ideological views is not yet known. Pandemic-era gun purchases have been linked to conservative or right-wing political views, support for former President Donald Trump, pro-gun attitudes, fear of government overreach, and disapproval of pandemic-related shutdowns [3,24,26,29]. Other research, however, reported a bipartisan surge in gun-buying early in the pandemic [1,26] and a disproportionate number of women and non-White racial and ethnic minorities purchasing guns for the first time during the pandemic [30].…”

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Who bought a gun during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States?: Associations with QAnon beliefs, right-wing political attitudes, intimate partner violence, antisocial behavior, suicidality, and mental health and substance use problems

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There was a large spike in gun purchases and gun violence during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We used an online U.S. national survey (N = 1036) to examine the characteristics of people who purchased a gun between March 2020 and October 2021 (n = 103) and compared them to non-gun owners (n = 763) and people who own a gun but did not purchase a gun during the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 170). Compared to non-gun owners, pandemic gun buyers were younger and more likely to be male, White race, and to affiliate with the Republican party. Compared to non-gun owners and pre-pandemic gun owners, pandemic gun buyers exhibited extreme elevations on a constellation of political (QAnon beliefs, pro-gun attitudes, Christian Nationalism, approval of former President Donald Trump, anti-vax beliefs, COVID-19 skepticism; mean d = 1.15), behavioral (intimate partner violence, antisocial behavior; mean d = 1.38), mental health (suicidality, depression, anxiety, substance use; mean d = 1.21), and personality (desire for power, belief in a dangerous world, low agreeableness, low conscientiousness; mean d = 0.95) characteristics. In contrast, pre-pandemic gun owners only endorsed more pro-gun attitudes (d = 0.67), lower approval of President Joe Biden (d = -0.41) and were more likely to be male and affiliate with the Republican party relative to non-gun owners. Pandemic gun buyers represent an extreme group in terms of political and psychological characteristics including several risk-factors for violence and self-harm.

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Modeling recent gun purchases: A social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race

Cited by 15 publications

References 30 publications

Gender difference in working from home and psychological distress - A national survey of U.S. employees during the COVID-19 pandemic

Gender difference in working from home and psychological distress - A national survey of U.S. employees during the COVID-19 pandemic

Teen firearm access during COVID: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of Pennsylvania families

Who bought a gun during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States?: Associations with QAnon beliefs, right-wing political attitudes, intimate partner violence, antisocial behavior, suicidality, and mental health and substance use problems

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