“…Initially, due to the common fear of falling ill with an unknown, new disease, the introduction of restrictions met with great approval and understanding which, as they were maintained for longer, decreased and caused various negative emotional reactions (powerlessness, discouragement, sadness, anger, fear, anxiety, etc. ), which often translated into denying the danger of the pandemic, undermining the sense of the introduced restrictions, rebellion in the form of deliberate non-compliance with them or spreading conspiracy theories about the pandemic or coronavirus vaccines ( Czeisler et al, 2020 ; Hagen et al, 2022 ; Kim et al, 2022 ; Szuster et al, 2022 ; Turska-Kawa and Pilch, 2022 ; Zhang et al, 2022 ).…”