Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure

Abstract Health risk exposure during the global COVID-19 pandemic has required people to adopt self-isolation. Public authorities have therefore had the difficult task of sustaining such protective but stressful behaviour. Evidence shows that besides egoistic drives, the motivation for self-isolatio...

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Autores principales:	Serena Petrocchi, Sheila Bernardi, Roberto Malacrida, Rafael Traber, Luca Gabutti, Nicola Grignoli
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:02ea27b304984292a21bb79a542c5f5c2021-12-02T15:43:09ZAffective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure10.1038/s41598-021-89504-w2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/02ea27b304984292a21bb79a542c5f5c2021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89504-whttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Health risk exposure during the global COVID-19 pandemic has required people to adopt self-isolation. Public authorities have therefore had the difficult task of sustaining such protective but stressful behaviour. Evidence shows that besides egoistic drives, the motivation for self-isolation behaviour could be altruistic. However, the type and role of prosocial motivation in the current pandemic is underestimated and its interaction with risk exposure and psychological distress is largely unknown. Here we show that affective empathy for the most vulnerable predicts acceptance of lockdown measures. In two retrospective studies, one with a general population and one with COVID-19 positive patients, we found that (1) along with health risk exposure, affective empathy is a predictor of acceptance of lockdown measures (2) social covariates and psychological distress have no significant impact. Our results support the need to focus on altruistic behaviours while informing the public instead of on fear-inducing messages.Serena PetrocchiSheila BernardiRoberto MalacridaRafael TraberLuca GabuttiNicola GrignoliNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Serena Petrocchi Sheila Bernardi Roberto Malacrida Rafael Traber Luca Gabutti Nicola Grignoli Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
description	Abstract Health risk exposure during the global COVID-19 pandemic has required people to adopt self-isolation. Public authorities have therefore had the difficult task of sustaining such protective but stressful behaviour. Evidence shows that besides egoistic drives, the motivation for self-isolation behaviour could be altruistic. However, the type and role of prosocial motivation in the current pandemic is underestimated and its interaction with risk exposure and psychological distress is largely unknown. Here we show that affective empathy for the most vulnerable predicts acceptance of lockdown measures. In two retrospective studies, one with a general population and one with COVID-19 positive patients, we found that (1) along with health risk exposure, affective empathy is a predictor of acceptance of lockdown measures (2) social covariates and psychological distress have no significant impact. Our results support the need to focus on altruistic behaviours while informing the public instead of on fear-inducing messages.
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author	Serena Petrocchi Sheila Bernardi Roberto Malacrida Rafael Traber Luca Gabutti Nicola Grignoli
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title	Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
title_short	Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
title_full	Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
title_fullStr	Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
title_full_unstemmed	Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
title_sort	affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/02ea27b304984292a21bb79a542c5f5c
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Affective empathy predicts self-isolation behaviour acceptance during coronavirus risk exposure

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