• Find People
  • Campus Map
  • PiratePort
  • A-Z
    • About
    • Submit
    • Browse
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • Dissertations and Theses
    • Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • Dissertations and Theses
    • Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of The ScholarShipCommunities & CollectionsDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate SubmittedThis CollectionDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate Submitted

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Google Analytics Statistics

    Psychological Responses and Behaviors During the Initial Stages of COVID-19 Among General US Population

    Thumbnail
    View/ Open
    TRIPP-DOCTORALDISSERTATION-2022.pdf (1.536Mb)

    Show full item record
    Author
    Tripp, Connor
    Abstract
    Background: The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has posed a major public health risk across the world. The threat of the virus and the resulting quarantine or "stay-home-orders," likely impacted physical and mental health across the US population. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychological responses and behaviors during the initial stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in a US sample, applying the Common-Sense Model of illness to encourage a more comprehensive conceptualization of psychological and behavioral response to COVID-19. Methods: This study used Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a widely used data-sourcing tool, to assess the psychological impact of COVID-19 and quarantine for a large sample (N = 584) of US citizens, applying the Common-Sense Model of Illness as a way of predicting cognitive and emotional representations of the virus, engagement in precautionary and self-care behaviors, and appraisals of control. Conclusions: These results suggested that US citizens felt knowledgeable about COVID-19 and confident in precautionary behaviors to control the spread of COVID-19. However, while most US citizens reported normative levels of emotional distress in response to COVID-19, about 19-30% reported scores that indicated moderate to severe distress. Greater distress predicted decreased engagement in self-care behaviors and certain precautionary behaviors. People who engaged in both precautionary and self-care behaviors felt that they were helpful. While the results of this study are preliminary and further study is needed, these results suggest that Leventhal's Common-Sense Model of Illness may be applicable to understanding the US citizen experience of COVID-19.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9704
    Date
    2021-10-04
    Citation:
    APA:
    Tripp, Connor. (October 2021). Psychological Responses and Behaviors During the Initial Stages of COVID-19 Among General US Population (Doctoral Dissertation, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9704.)

    Display/Hide MLA, Chicago and APA citation formats.

    MLA:
    Tripp, Connor. Psychological Responses and Behaviors During the Initial Stages of COVID-19 Among General US Population. Doctoral Dissertation. East Carolina University, October 2021. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9704. January 31, 2023.
    Chicago:
    Tripp, Connor, “Psychological Responses and Behaviors During the Initial Stages of COVID-19 Among General US Population” (Doctoral Dissertation., East Carolina University, October 2021).
    AMA:
    Tripp, Connor. Psychological Responses and Behaviors During the Initial Stages of COVID-19 Among General US Population [Doctoral Dissertation]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; October 2021.
    Collections
    • Dissertations
    Publisher
    East Carolina University

    xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.ItemViewer.elsevier_entitlement

    East Carolina University has created ScholarShip, a digital archive for the scholarly output of the ECU community.

    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Send Feedback