Bacon, Alison M Corr, Philip J
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British journal of health psychology
Objectives Public behaviour change is necessary to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Based on the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) framework, this study presents an examination of individual differences in some relevant psychological factors. Design Cross-sectional psychometric. Methods UK respondents (N = 202) completed a persona...
Howard, Matt C
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British journal of health psychology
Face masks are an avenue to curb the spread of coronavirus, but few people in Western societies wear face masks. Social scientists have rarely studied face mask wearing, leaving little guidance for methods to encourage these behaviours. In the current article, we provide an approach to address this issue by developing the 32-item and 8-dimension Fa...
Niepel, Christoph Kranz, Dirk Borgonovi, Francesca Emslander, Valentin Greiff, Samuel
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British journal of health psychology
The study compares empirical results on the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) fatality risk perception of US adult residents stratified for age, gender, and race in mid-March 2020 (N1 = 1,182) and mid-April 2020 (N2 = 953). While the fatality risk perception has increased from March 2020 to April 2020, our findings suggest that many US adul...
Lades, Leonhard K Laffan, Kate Daly, Michael Delaney, Liam
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British journal of health psychology
The COVID-19 outbreak has become one of the largest public health crises of our time. Governments have responded by implementing self-isolation and physical distancing measures that have profoundly impacted daily life throughout the world. In this study, we aimed to investigate how people experience the activities, interactions, and settings of the...
Shevlin, Mark Nolan, Emma Owczarek, Marcin McBride, Orla Murphy, Jamie Gibson Miller, Jilly Hartman, Todd K Levita, Liat Mason, Liam Martinez, Anton P
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British journal of health psychology
This study aimed to estimate the association between anxiety associated with COVID-19 and somatic symptoms, using data from a large, representative sample (N = 2,025) of the UK adult population. Results showed that moderate to high levels of anxiety associated with COVID-19 were significantly associated with general somatic symptoms and in particul...
Grover, Simmy McClelland, Alastair Furnham, Adrian
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British journal of health psychology
This study concerns what lay people believe is the best way to allocate scarce medical resources. A sample of 515 individuals completed a short questionnaire asking them to rank-order eight different ethical positions with respect to the allocation of scarce resources. They showed a strong preference for the 'saves most lives' and 'sickest first' o...
Arden, Madelynne A Byrne-Davis, Lucie Chater, Angel Hart, Jo McBride, Emily Chilcot, Joseph
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British journal of health psychology
Greenwell, Kate Sereda, Magdalena Coulson, Neil S Geraghty, Adam W A Bradbury, Katherine Hoare, Derek J
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British journal of health psychology
To explore users' reactions to and expectations of the Tinnitus E-Programme 2.0, a digital cognitive behavioural intervention for tinnitus, and to identify contextual factors and mechanisms of action that may influence user engagement with the intervention. Qualitative interview study. Think-aloud and semi-structured interviews were carried out wit...
Micalizzi, Lauren Zambrotta, Nicholas S Bernstein, Michael H
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British journal of health psychology
Consistent with behaviour observed in prior crises, individuals are stockpiling supplies during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The goal of this study was to describe stockpiling behaviour in response to COVID-19 and investigate individual predictors of stockpiling. Workers (N = 363, 54.72% male, 44.65% female, 0.63% other; Mage = 38.41,...
Armitage, Christopher J Conner, Mark Prestwich, Andrew de Bruin, Marijn Johnston, Marie Sniehotta, Falko Epton, Tracy
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British journal of health psychology
Behaviour change techniques are fundamental to the development of any behaviour change intervention, but surprisingly little is known about their properties. Key questions include when, why, how, in which contexts, for which behaviours, in what combinations, compared with what, and for whom behaviour change techniques are typically effective. The a...
