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The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic
Worldviews about human's relationship with the natural world play an important role in psychological health. However, very little is currently known regarding the way worldviews about nature are linked with psychological health during a severe natural disaster and how this link may differ accor...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7547372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33071412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110336 |
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author | Haas, Brian W. Hoeft, Fumiko Omura, Kazufumi |
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description | Worldviews about human's relationship with the natural world play an important role in psychological health. However, very little is currently known regarding the way worldviews about nature are linked with psychological health during a severe natural disaster and how this link may differ according to cultural context. In this study, we measured individual differences in worldviews about nature and psychological health during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic within two different cultural contexts (Japan and United States). We found that across Japanese and American cultural contexts, holding a harmony-with-nature worldview was positively associated with improved psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also found that culture moderated the link between mastery-over-nature worldviews and negative affect. Americans showed a stronger link between mastery-over-nature worldviews and negative affect than Japanese. These findings support the biophilia hypothesis and contribute to theories differentiating Japanese and American cultural contexts based on naïve dialecticism and susceptibility to cognitive dissonance. |
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spelling | pubmed-75473722020-10-13 The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic Haas, Brian W. Hoeft, Fumiko Omura, Kazufumi Pers Individ Dif Article Worldviews about human's relationship with the natural world play an important role in psychological health. However, very little is currently known regarding the way worldviews about nature are linked with psychological health during a severe natural disaster and how this link may differ according to cultural context. In this study, we measured individual differences in worldviews about nature and psychological health during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic within two different cultural contexts (Japan and United States). We found that across Japanese and American cultural contexts, holding a harmony-with-nature worldview was positively associated with improved psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also found that culture moderated the link between mastery-over-nature worldviews and negative affect. Americans showed a stronger link between mastery-over-nature worldviews and negative affect than Japanese. These findings support the biophilia hypothesis and contribute to theories differentiating Japanese and American cultural contexts based on naïve dialecticism and susceptibility to cognitive dissonance. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-02-15 2020-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7547372/ /pubmed/33071412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110336 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Haas, Brian W. Hoeft, Fumiko Omura, Kazufumi The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | The role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | role of culture on the link between worldviews on nature and psychological health during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7547372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33071412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110336 |
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