Perceived Severity of COVID-19 and Post-pandemic Consumption Willingness: The Roles of Boredom and Sensation-Seeking

Deng, Shichang; Wang, Wangshuai; Xie, Ping; Chao, Yifan; Zhu, Jingru

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.567784

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“…Although such prevention and control measures can effectively stop the spread of a pandemic (Remuzzi & Remuzzi, 2020), they also spawn a series of social governance issues and have negative impacts on general public's mental health (Ahmad & Murad, 2020;Horton, 2020;Wang et al, 2020c). A systematic review has proved that the COVID-19 is truly associated with psychology distress worldwide, such as anxiety and stress (Xiong et al, 2020), which may cause impulsive buying (Deng, Wang, Xie, Chao, & Zhu, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, it is necessary to further investigate the phenomenon of impulsive buying in emergency and crisis situations. However, there is a limited number of studies on this issue (Thomas & Monica, 2002;Chow & Elkind, 2005;Deng et al, 2020), which mainly adopted a qualitative approach and lack empirical evidence. In addition, no empirical research has discussed the internal mechanism of impulsive buying in emergency and crisis situations.…”

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A diary study of impulsive buying during the COVID-19 pandemic

Xiao

Zhang

2020

Curr Psychol

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The purpose of this paper is to explore why impulsive buying happens under emergency and crisis situations, such as that of COVID-19. Drawing on the cognitive-affective personality system theory (CAPS), we tested the dynamic influence of daily perceived uncertainty on COVID-19 on daily impulsive buying via daily information overload and daily information anxiety in a two-wave experience sampling method (ESM) design. Through a multilevel structural equation model (MSEM) analysis, we found that the daily perceived uncertainty on COVID-19 affected daily information overload, which in turn stimulated daily information anxiety, ultimately determining the daily impulsive buying. Namely, daily information overload and daily information anxiety played a complete chain-mediating role between the daily perceived uncertainty on COVID-19 and daily impulsive buying. The present paper is the first to uncover the important dynamic effect of the perceived uncertainty on COVID-19 on impulsive buying with diary data. Specific implications of these findings are discussed.

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A diary study of impulsive buying during the COVID-19 pandemic

Xiao

Zhang

2020

Curr Psychol

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“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, the perceived threat of the pandemic attracted a great deal of attention from researchers in China and other countries of the world. At present, studies on threat perception of COVID-19 are mainly focused on its concern with economic confidence (Xin, 2020), anxiety reaction (Wen et al, 2020), pandemic-control confidence (Dryhurst et al, 2020), variety-seeking (Kim, 2020), and postpandemic consumption willingness (Deng et al, 2020). This study showed that the perceived threat of COVID-19 may related to a universal, non-target-specific aggressive tendency, provides a reference from first-hand data for subsequent studies.…”

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“…The GAM explains the generation of aggression through how situation factors influence personal internal states such as cognitions, feelings, and arousal, which in turn affect aggressive or non-aggressive behavioral outcomes in appraisal and decision processes. During the COVID-19 pandemic in China, the perceived threat of COVID-19 caused a rapid increase in emotional issues (Gao et al, 2020), cognition stress (Xin et al, 2020), and arousal problems (Deng et al, 2020). As a result, people are higly likely to respond to rapidly increasing internal pressure by being aggressive.…”

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How perceived threat of COVID-19 related to aggressive tendencies during the pandemic in Hubei Province and other regions of China: Mediators and moderators

Deng

Feng

2021

Curr Psychol

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During the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, domestic violence, interpersonal conflicts, and cyberbullying have risen sharply in China. We speculate that the perceived threat of COVID-19 is related to a general, non-target-specific aggressive tendency during the pandemic. We surveyed 1556 Chinese people in April 2020 (757 people in Hubei Province, the pandemic epicenter in China, and 799 in other regions of China where the pandemic is relatively not severe). A multiple-group structural equation modeling analysis found significant total effects between perceived threat of COVID-19 and aggressive tendencies during the pandemic in both regional groups, and the effect between them was mainly achieved through the mediating roles of sense of control and powerlessness during the pandemic. For all participants, negative coping strategies significantly aggravated the association between perceived threat of COVID-19 and aggressive tendencies during the pandemic, but the buffers were different across regions of outbreak severity. For participants in other regions where the pandemic is relatively not severe, positive coping strategies could mitigate the association between perceived threat of COVID-19 and aggressions. However, for participants in Hubei Province, the epicenter of China's pandemic, higher life satisfaction was more effective in buffering. These findings extend the possible consequences of the perceived COVID-19 threat and suggest that improving the life satisfaction of residents in areas with severe outbreaks is more effective in mitigating the adverse effects of COVID-19.Keywords COVID-19 . Perceived threat . Aggression . Mediator . ModeratorThe novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that has swept the world since December 2019 is the most serious public health crisis since World War II (Guterres, 2020). This study paid particular attention to a prominent phenomenon during the pandemic in China: the rising aggressive tendencies among Chinese people. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people in China seemed to become restless. Domestic violence, interpersonal conflicts, and cyberbullying have risen sharply in the pandemic period (Global Times, 2020;Li et al., 2020;Ye et al., 2020). These aggressions may instigate social tensions and increase the level of social conflicts in the post-pandemic period (Censolo & Morelli, 2020). Therefore,

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“…Some evidence suggests that higher needs or preferences for sensation seeking input make it more difficult to withstand long-term input deprivation, although findings tend to be mixed. For example, sensation seeking was positively correlated with the boredom experienced during COVID-19 related lockdown, but life satisfaction during the pandemic was not associated with this trait (Deng, Wang, Xie, Chao, & Zhu, 2020). Moreover, higher boredom proneness was linked to more difficulty complying with social distancing during the lockdown (Boylan, Seli, Scholer, & Danckert, 2020;Wolff, Martarelli, Schüler, & Bieleke, 2020).…”

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To Sit Quietly in a Room Alone: The Psychology of Social, Material, and Sensation Seeking Input

Krpan¹

2021

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External input is any kind of physical stimulation created by an individual’s surroundings that can be detected by the senses. The present research established a novel conceptualization of this construct by investigating it from the perspective of three research areas that tap into its different aspects but have so far been disconnected—materialism, social motives, and sensation seeking. Studies 1-5 focused on individual differences regarding external input (i.e., the needs for material, social, and sensation seeking input). It was established that the three needs are positively related and constitute different dimensions of the overarching construct of external input, that the needs for social and sensation seeking input have negative consequences for how people experience long-term input deprivation (i.e., COVID-19 restrictions), and that the need for material input has negative consequences for people’s experiences of short-term input deprivation (i.e., sitting in a chair without doing anything else but thinking). Finally, Study 6 focused on external input as a situational characteristic and showed that the degree of sensation seeking input constituting various situations is a more important predictor, relative to social and material input, of how enjoyable and meaningful people perceive the situations and of their willingness to engage in them. Overall, the present research established a novel construct that has fundamental implications for people’s experiences and actions in a range of different contexts.

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Perceived Severity of COVID-19 and Post-pandemic Consumption Willingness: The Roles of Boredom and Sensation-Seeking

Cited by 67 publications

References 53 publications

A diary study of impulsive buying during the COVID-19 pandemic

A diary study of impulsive buying during the COVID-19 pandemic

How perceived threat of COVID-19 related to aggressive tendencies during the pandemic in Hubei Province and other regions of China: Mediators and moderators

To Sit Quietly in a Room Alone: The Psychology of Social, Material, and Sensation Seeking Input

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