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Jaspal, R. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8463-9519, Lopes, B. and Lopes, P.,
2020.
Predicting social distancing and compulsive buying behaviours in response to COVID-19 in a United Kingdom sample.
Cogent Psychology, 7 (1): 1800924.
ISSN 2331-1908
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Abstract
This study examines differences between key socio-demographic groups and the impact of strength of social network, political trust, and fear of COVID-19 on working from home (a key social distancing behaviour) and compulsive buying (a maladaptive behaviour) in response to COVID-19. This study used a correlational cross-sectional survey design. A sample of 411 participants in the United Kingdom (UK) completed measures of strength of social network, political trust, fear of COVID-19, length of self-isolation and compulsive buying. Results showed that older people and lower income groups are less likely to work from home in response to COVID-19; that people with a diagnosed mental health disorder exhibited less political trust, more fear of COVID-19, and more compulsive buying; and that people reporting COVID-19 symptomatology had been in self-isolation for longer and exhibited more compulsive buying than those with no COVID-19 symptomatology. The structural equation model showed that age, having a diagnosed mental health disorder, having COVID-19 symptomatology and strength of social network impacted on working from home and compulsive buying, through the mediators of political trust, fear of COVID-19 and length of self-isolation. The results demonstrate that some groups in the UK population may be vulnerable to maladaptive behaviours and poor social, psychological, and physical health outcomes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. These groups may require special support to cope effectively with the effects of COVID-19.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Cogent Psychology | ||||||
| Creators: | Jaspal, R., Lopes, B. and Lopes, P. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cogent OA | ||||||
| Date: | 7 August 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 7 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2331-1908 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2020 The Author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 10 Aug 2020 13:13 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:18 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40408 |
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