Tong Jiajin's research group published an article in Current Psychology to reveal the collectivists' adaptation to the epidemic

The coronavirus pandemic has been going on for three years
.
Psychological studies have revealed that the epidemic has brought people's negative emotions such as panic, worry, and anxiety, brought about people's incorrect perception of information, brought about the destruction of physical and mental health, and brought about maladaptive behaviors (panic purchase, work-family conflicts, withdrawal behaviors), etc
.
Looking back on the three years of fighting the epidemic, different people have different psychological and behavioral reactions
.
What kind of people are better able to adapt to the pandemic and crisis? Studies related to outbreaks have mentioned some individual traits, such as Kim et al.
(2016) in the study of Ebola virus found that collectivists have a better sense
of efficacy at the same risk of epidemics.
So, is the adaptability of collectivists huddling for heating suitable for the new crown epidemic and even various group crises?

This study examines how government trust can reduce people's worries and sadness
during the pandemic and even in general group crises by building individual resilience through two methods, questionnaires and pilot studies.
The above relationship is stronger in collectivist groups, that is, people with high collectivist tendencies are more likely to benefit
from it.

On December 19, 2022, Tong Jiajin's research group at the School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences of Peking University studied "How and When Institutional Trust Helps Deal with Group Crisis like COVID-19 Pandemic for Chinese Employees?" A Social Perspective of Motivation" was published in the journal
Current Psychology.
Dr.
Tong Jiajin is the first author and corresponding author of this study, and Xueting Zhang (currently a doctoral student at the School of Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands), Xiangyi Zhu (currently working for Sinochem), and Dr.
Dang Junhua (now an associate professor at Uppsala University School of Medicine, Sweden) are the second, third and fourth authors of this paper, and are all graduates
of this school.
This research was supported
by the Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavioral and Mental Health.

Full text link: https://link.
springer.
com/article/10.
1007/s12144-022-04149-w

Tong, J.
*, Zhang, X.
, Zhu, X.
, & Dang, J.
(2022).
How and When Institutional Trust Helps Deal with Group Crisis like COVID-19 Pandemic for Chinese Employees? A Social Perspective of Motivation.
Current Psychology.
DOI: 10.
1007/s12144-022-04149-w

2022-12-20