TY - JOUR

T1 - Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey

AU - Lieberoth, Andreas

AU - Lin, Shiang-Yi

AU - Stöckli, Sabrina

AU - Han, Hyemin

AU - Kowal, Marta

AU - Gelpí, Rebekah

AU - Chrona, Stavroula

AU - Tran, Thao P.

AU - Jeftić, Alma

AU - Rasmussen, Jesper

AU - Cakal, Huseyin

AU - Milfont, Taciano L.

AU - Lieberoth, Andreas

AU - Yamada, Yuki

AU - Han, Hyemin

AU - Amin, Rizwana

AU - Debove, Stephane

AU - Gelpí, Rebekah

AU - Flis, Ivan

AU - Sahin, Hafize

AU - Turk, Fidan

AU - Yeh, Yao-Yuan

AU - Ho, Yuen Wan

AU - Sikka, Pilleriin

AU - Delgado-Garcia, Guillermo

AU - Lacko, David

AU - Mamede, Salomé

AU - Zerhouni, Oulmann

AU - Tuominen, Jarno

AU - Bircan, Tuba

AU - Wang, Austin Horng-En

AU - Ikizer, Gozde

AU - Lins, Samuel

AU - Studzinska, Anna

AU - Cakal, Huseyin

AU - Uddin, Muhammad Kamal

AU - Juárez, Fernanda Pérez-Gay

AU - Chen, Fang-Yu

AU - Kowal, Marta

AU - Sanli, Aybegum Memisoglu

AU - Lys, Agnieszka E.

AU - Reynoso-Alcántara, Vicenta

AU - González, Rubén Flores

AU - Griffin, Amanda M.

AU - López, Claudio Rafael Castro

AU - Nezkusilova, Jana

AU - Ćepulić, Dominik-Borna

AU - Aquino, Sibele

AU - Marot, Tiago A.

AU - Blackburn, Angélique M.

AU - Boullu, Loïs

AU - Bavolar, Jozef

AU - Kacmar, Pavol

AU - Wu, Charles K. S.

AU - Areias, João Carlos

AU - Natividade, Jean C.

AU - Mari, Silvia

AU - Ahmed, Oli

AU - Dranseika, Vilius

AU - Cristofori, Irene

AU - Coll-Martín, Tao

AU - Eichel, Kristina

AU - Kumaga, Raisa

AU - Ermagan-Caglar, Eda

AU - Bamwesigye, Dastan

AU - Tag, Benjamin

AU - Chrona, Stavroula

AU - Contreras-Ibáñez, Carlos C.

AU - Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.

AU - Naidu, Priyanka A.

AU - Tran, Thao P.

AU - Dilekler, İlknur

AU - Čeněk, Jiří

AU - Islam, Md Nurul

AU - Ch'ng, Brendan

AU - Sechi, Cristina

AU - Nebel, Steve

AU - Sayılan, Gülden

AU - Jha, Shruti

AU - Vestergren, Sara

AU - Ihaya, Keiko

AU - Guillaume, Gautreau

AU - Travaglino, Giovanni A.

AU - Rachev, Nikolay R.

AU - Hanusz, Krzysztof

AU - Pírko, Martin

AU - West, J. Noël

AU - Cyrus-Lai, Wilson

AU - Najmussaqib, Arooj

AU - Romano, Eugenia

AU - Noreika, Valdas

AU - Musliu, Arian

AU - Sungailaite, Emilija

AU - Kosa, Mehmet

AU - Lentoor, Antonio G.

AU - Sinha, Nidhi

AU - Bender, Andrew R.

AU - Meshi, Dar

AU - Bhandari, Pratik

AU - Byrne, Grace

AU - Jeftic, Alma

AU - Kalinova, Kalina

AU - Hubena, Barbora

AU - Ninaus, Manuel

AU - Díaz, Carlos

AU - Scarpaci, Alessia

AU - Koszałkowska, Karolina

AU - Pankowski, Daniel

AU - Yaneva, Teodora

AU - Morales-Izquierdo, Sara

AU - Uzelac, Ena

AU - Lee, Yookyung

AU - Lin, Shiang-Yi

AU - Hristova, Dayana

AU - Hakim, Moh Abdul

AU - Deschrijver, Eliane

AU - Kavanagh, Phillip S.

AU - Shata, Aya

AU - Reyna, Cecilia

AU - Leon, Gabriel A. De

AU - Tisocco, Franco

AU - Mola, Débora Jeanette

AU - Shani, Maor

AU - Mahlungulu, Samkelisiwe

AU - Ozery, Daphna Hausman

AU - Caniëls, Marjolein C. J.

AU - Correa, Pablo Sebastián

AU - Ortiz, María Victoria

AU - Vilar, Roosevelt

AU - Makaveeva, Tsvetelina

AU - Stöckli, Sabrina

AU - Pummerer, Lotte

AU - Nikolova, Irina

AU - Bujić, Mila

AU - Szebeni, Zea

AU - Pennato, Tiziana

AU - Taranu, Mihaela

AU - Martinez, Liz

AU - Capelos, Tereza

AU - Belaus, Anabel

AU - Dubrov, Dmitrii

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psychological responses differ across countries and cultures, and how this has impacted behaviour, coping and trust in government efforts to slow the spread of the virus. Starting in March 2020, COVIDiSTRESS leveraged the convenience of unpaid online recruitment to generate public data. The objective of the present analysis is to understand relationships between psychological responses in the early months of global coronavirus restrictions and help understand how different government measures succeed or fail in changing public behaviour. There were variations between and within countries. Although Western Europeans registered as more concerned over COVID-19, more stressed, and having slightly more trust in the governments' efforts, there was no clear geographical pattern in compliance with behavioural measures. Detailed plots illustrating between-countries differences are provided. Using both traditional and Bayesian analyses, we found that individuals who worried about getting sick worked harder to protect themselves and others. However, concern about the coronavirus itself did not account for all of the variances in experienced stress during the early months of COVID-19 restrictions. More alarmingly, such stress was associated with less compliance. Further, those most concerned over the coronavirus trusted in government measures primarily where policies were strict. While concern over a disease is a source of mental distress, other factors including strictness of protective measures, social support and personal lockdown conditions must also be taken into consideration to fully appreciate the psychological impact of COVID-19 and to understand why some people fail to follow behavioural guidelines intended to protect themselves and others from infection. The Stage 1 manuscript associated with this submission received in-principle acceptance (IPA) on 18 May 2020. Following IPA, the accepted Stage 1 version of the manuscript was preregistered on the Open Science Framework at https:/

AB - The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psychological responses differ across countries and cultures, and how this has impacted behaviour, coping and trust in government efforts to slow the spread of the virus. Starting in March 2020, COVIDiSTRESS leveraged the convenience of unpaid online recruitment to generate public data. The objective of the present analysis is to understand relationships between psychological responses in the early months of global coronavirus restrictions and help understand how different government measures succeed or fail in changing public behaviour. There were variations between and within countries. Although Western Europeans registered as more concerned over COVID-19, more stressed, and having slightly more trust in the governments' efforts, there was no clear geographical pattern in compliance with behavioural measures. Detailed plots illustrating between-countries differences are provided. Using both traditional and Bayesian analyses, we found that individuals who worried about getting sick worked harder to protect themselves and others. However, concern about the coronavirus itself did not account for all of the variances in experienced stress during the early months of COVID-19 restrictions. More alarmingly, such stress was associated with less compliance. Further, those most concerned over the coronavirus trusted in government measures primarily where policies were strict. While concern over a disease is a source of mental distress, other factors including strictness of protective measures, social support and personal lockdown conditions must also be taken into consideration to fully appreciate the psychological impact of COVID-19 and to understand why some people fail to follow behavioural guidelines intended to protect themselves and others from infection. The Stage 1 manuscript associated with this submission received in-principle acceptance (IPA) on 18 May 2020. Following IPA, the accepted Stage 1 version of the manuscript was preregistered on the Open Science Framework at https:/

U2 - 10.1098/rsos.200589

DO - 10.1098/rsos.200589

M3 - Journal article

VL - 8

JO - Royal Society Open Science

JF - Royal Society Open Science

SN - 2054-5703

IS - 2

M1 - 200589

ER -