Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID-19: A crowd-sourced multicultural exploration

Corey L. Cook; Donna Demanarig; Sierra Metviner; Tara Stoppa; Hannah Milius; Jon Grahe; Yoshito Kawabata; Kathleen Schmidt; Tammy Sonnentag; Danielle DeNigris; Jill Norvilitis; Stephen Berry; Kelly Cuccolo; Gosnell Courtney L; Anthony Kagalis; Gina Hawkins; Kalu T.U. Ogba; Hojjatolla Farahani; Parviz Azadfallah; Christina Shane-Simpson; Lisa Rosen; Rita Obeid; Chris Koch; Tifani Fletcher; Eliz Volkan; Amie Weaver; Christina Greenup; Cory Cascalheira; Christopher Redker; Claire Girod; Yang Lu; David Tan; John Edlund; Justin Bell; Lisseth London; Christopher Stults; Natasha Otto; Eries Jay Moreno; Danielle Balaghi; Jeremy Cummings; Zornitsa Kalibatseva; Brandilynn Knapp; James Anderson; Jacklyn Garote; Robin Moore; Kimberly Carpenter; Steven Holloway; Bri Anne Schults; Camryn Cooper; Sara Elizabeth Stoeckl; Sabrina Kaplan; Connor Wu; James Sinclair; Nuno Ferreira; Fanli Jia; Martha S. Zlokovich; Megan Irgens; Mary Moussa Rogers

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Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID-19: A crowd-sourced multicultural exploration

Corey L. Cook, Donna Demanarig, Sierra Metviner, Tara Stoppa, Hannah Milius, Jon Grahe, Yoshito Kawabata, Kathleen Schmidt, Tammy Sonnentag, Danielle DeNigris, Jill Norvilitis, Stephen Berry, Kelly Cuccolo, Gosnell Courtney L, Anthony Kagalis, Gina Hawkins, Kalu T.U. Ogba, Hojjatolla Farahani, Parviz Azadfallah, Christina Shane-SimpsonLisa Rosen, Rita Obeid, Chris Koch, Tifani Fletcher, Eliz Volkan, Amie Weaver, Christina Greenup, Cory Cascalheira, Christopher Redker, Claire Girod, Yang Lu, David Tan, John Edlund, Justin Bell, Lisseth London, Christopher Stults, Natasha Otto, Eries Jay Moreno, Danielle Balaghi, Jeremy Cummings, Zornitsa Kalibatseva, Brandilynn Knapp, James Anderson, Jacklyn Garote, Robin Moore, Kimberly Carpenter, Steven Holloway, Bri Anne Schults, Camryn Cooper, Sara Elizabeth Stoeckl, Sabrina Kaplan, Connor Wu, James Sinclair, Nuno Ferreira, Fanli Jia, Martha S. Zlokovich, Megan Irgens, Mary Moussa Rogers

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A pre-registered, crowd-sourced, multicultural study assessed how the personal need for structure (PNFS) predicted perceptions, behaviors, and coping mechanisms in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaborators, invited to collect online survey data through Psi Chi's Network for International Collaborative Exchange crowd-sourcing initiative (Edlund et al., 2019), recruited approximately 100 participants across 22 data-collection locations (final N = 4620). Participants completed randomized online surveys, which inquired about an individual's PNFS, and current perceptions, behaviors and knowledge surrounding the pandemic. Results indicated that individuals with higher PNFS fared better at navigating the rules and restrictions that came with the pandemic. Specifically, and contrary to hypotheses, higher PNFS positively predicted knowledge of COVID-19 and support for government restrictions and negatively predicted belief in pandemic misinformation. Additionally, PNFS significantly positively predicted the use of problem and emotion-focused coping strategies and did not predict dysfunctional coping mechanisms. Our findings emphasize the role individual differences play in navigating the pandemic, and future research should evaluate PNFS in light of COVID-19 and in relation to other behavioral and psychological outcomes.

Original language	English
Journal	Social and Personality Psychology Compass
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12797
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2023

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beliefs
coping
COVID-19
crowd-source
individual differences
pandemic
personal need for structure

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Cook, C. L., Demanarig, D., Metviner, S., Stoppa, T., Milius, H., Grahe, J., Kawabata, Y., Schmidt, K., Sonnentag, T., DeNigris, D., Norvilitis, J., Berry, S., Cuccolo, K., Courtney L, G., Kagalis, A., Hawkins, G., Ogba, K. T. U., Farahani, H., Azadfallah, P., ... Moussa Rogers, M. (Accepted/In press). Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID-19: A crowd-sourced multicultural exploration. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12797

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