The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations

The present research was conducted to empirically examine whether death anxiety is the fundamental fear that feeds people’s fear of COVID-19 and leads to increased behavioral compliance with and acceptance of COVID-19 regulations. Results from an online survey of 313 participants from New York City...

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Autores principales: Kehr, Hugo M., Bakaç, Cafer, Jais, Marius, Brunner, Dorothee, Voigt, Julian, Holzemer, Lea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9108415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35586230
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.881603
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author Kehr, Hugo M.
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Jais, Marius
Brunner, Dorothee
Voigt, Julian
Holzemer, Lea
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description The present research was conducted to empirically examine whether death anxiety is the fundamental fear that feeds people’s fear of COVID-19 and leads to increased behavioral compliance with and acceptance of COVID-19 regulations. Results from an online survey of 313 participants from New York City show that death anxiety was, indeed, positively associated with behavioral compliance with, but not acceptance of, COVID-19 regulations via an increased fear of COVID-19. Hence, media campaigns that are designed to increase people’s compliance with restrictive COVID-19 measures by stirring up their death anxiety are likely to meet their target, but they do not necessarily lead to increased public acceptance of the measures taken.
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spelling pubmed-91084152022-05-17 The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations Kehr, Hugo M. Bakaç, Cafer Jais, Marius Brunner, Dorothee Voigt, Julian Holzemer, Lea Front Psychol Psychology The present research was conducted to empirically examine whether death anxiety is the fundamental fear that feeds people’s fear of COVID-19 and leads to increased behavioral compliance with and acceptance of COVID-19 regulations. Results from an online survey of 313 participants from New York City show that death anxiety was, indeed, positively associated with behavioral compliance with, but not acceptance of, COVID-19 regulations via an increased fear of COVID-19. Hence, media campaigns that are designed to increase people’s compliance with restrictive COVID-19 measures by stirring up their death anxiety are likely to meet their target, but they do not necessarily lead to increased public acceptance of the measures taken. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9108415/ /pubmed/35586230 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.881603 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kehr, Bakaç, Jais, Brunner, Voigt and Holzemer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Kehr, Hugo M.
Bakaç, Cafer
Jais, Marius
Brunner, Dorothee
Voigt, Julian
Holzemer, Lea
The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations
title The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations
title_full The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations
title_fullStr The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations
title_short The Role of Death-Anxiety-Induced Fear of COVID-19 in Compliance With and Acceptance of Government-Issued COVID-19 Regulations
title_sort role of death-anxiety-induced fear of covid-19 in compliance with and acceptance of government-issued covid-19 regulations
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9108415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35586230
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.881603
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