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How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation?
Alongside its immediate consequences for physical health, the current Coronavirus pandemic and the associated containment measures have led to multiple psychosocial consequences for the population. While virus containment is the main motive of crisis management, there is, so far, little evidence on...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9527383/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41125-022-00086-8 |
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author | Lüttschwager, Nils Stelzmann, Daniela Gerhold, Lars Sterl, Sebastian |
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description | Alongside its immediate consequences for physical health, the current Coronavirus pandemic and the associated containment measures have led to multiple psychosocial consequences for the population. While virus containment is the main motive of crisis management, there is, so far, little evidence on how crisis management actors consider findings about the psychosocial state of the German population. This paper therefore examines the role of psychosocial consequences within the work of crisis management organizations during the Corona pandemic in Germany. Against the theoretical background of the sensemaking concept, 14 qualitative interviews were conducted with decision-makers from municipal and state administrations, public health departments, aid organizations, and critical infrastructure organizations. Our results indicate that crisis managers perceive aspects related to the psychosocial situation as relevant, but in a very selective way. They use different and often non-scientific sources to acquire knowledge about the psychosocial consequences. In sum, these aspects do not play a major role in decision-making processes. We argue that the perception and processing of psychosocial consequences depend in particular on the organizational context such as goals, plausibility assumptions, identity conceptions, and problem frames. In order to extend theoretical models of psychosocial crisis management, more detailed knowledge of sensemaking processes in crisis management organizations is necessary. |
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spelling | pubmed-95273832022-10-03 How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? Lüttschwager, Nils Stelzmann, Daniela Gerhold, Lars Sterl, Sebastian Eur J Secur Res Original Article Alongside its immediate consequences for physical health, the current Coronavirus pandemic and the associated containment measures have led to multiple psychosocial consequences for the population. While virus containment is the main motive of crisis management, there is, so far, little evidence on how crisis management actors consider findings about the psychosocial state of the German population. This paper therefore examines the role of psychosocial consequences within the work of crisis management organizations during the Corona pandemic in Germany. Against the theoretical background of the sensemaking concept, 14 qualitative interviews were conducted with decision-makers from municipal and state administrations, public health departments, aid organizations, and critical infrastructure organizations. Our results indicate that crisis managers perceive aspects related to the psychosocial situation as relevant, but in a very selective way. They use different and often non-scientific sources to acquire knowledge about the psychosocial consequences. In sum, these aspects do not play a major role in decision-making processes. We argue that the perception and processing of psychosocial consequences depend in particular on the organizational context such as goals, plausibility assumptions, identity conceptions, and problem frames. In order to extend theoretical models of psychosocial crisis management, more detailed knowledge of sensemaking processes in crisis management organizations is necessary. Springer International Publishing 2022-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9527383/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41125-022-00086-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Lüttschwager, Nils Stelzmann, Daniela Gerhold, Lars Sterl, Sebastian How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? |
title | How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? |
title_full | How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? |
title_fullStr | How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? |
title_full_unstemmed | How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? |
title_short | How Did Corona Crisis Managers in Germany Make Sense of the Psychosocial Situation? |
title_sort | how did corona crisis managers in germany make sense of the psychosocial situation? |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9527383/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41125-022-00086-8 |
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