Social Psychology
Soroosh Golbabaei; Khatereh Borhani; Hamed Borhany; Mana Jameie
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Introduction: The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between facing patients’ death, the probability of infection to COVID-19, job satisfaction, and non-deterministic moral decision-making with mediating role of anxiety.
Method: This research was a correlational and path ...
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Introduction: The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between facing patients’ death, the probability of infection to COVID-19, job satisfaction, and non-deterministic moral decision-making with mediating role of anxiety.
Method: This research was a correlational and path analysis study, and participants were selected based on convenience sampling during the first peak of COVID-19 in May 2020. In this study, 190 healthcare workers in hospitals allocated to COVID-19 patients responded to questionnaires of non-deterministic moral decision-making scenarios (Christensen, Flexas, Calabrese, Gut, & Gomila, 2014), probability of infection to COVID-19 (Hyland et al., 2020), facing patients’ death (Mosheva, 2020), job-satisfaction (Afulani et al., 2021), and COVID-19 related anxiety (Benham et al., 2021). Data were analyzed using correlation and path analysis with SPSS and AMOS.
Results: Findings showed that utilitarian behavior is positively correlated with anxiety (p < 0.001), facing patients’ death (p < 0.001), and the probability of infection (p < 0.001) and negatively correlated with job satisfaction (p < 0.01). Moreover, another finding was that anxiety mediated the relationship between the probability of infection and utilitarian behavior (p < 0.01) but not the other ones.
Conclusion: These findings imply that the situation caused by COVID-19 has cognitive and psychological impacts on healthcare workers, and as a result, changes their moral decisions and their attitude regarding resource allocation.
Majid Saffarinia; shiler kaikhavani; Armaghan Damavandian; Saba Saffarinia; Tayebeh Mohtashami
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Introduction: According to research findings, universal vaccination is the way to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. However, many people in the community are reluctant to get vaccinated. The present study was designed to make and validate the vaccine attitude scale and its relationship with health anxiety.Method: ...
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Introduction: According to research findings, universal vaccination is the way to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. However, many people in the community are reluctant to get vaccinated. The present study was designed to make and validate the vaccine attitude scale and its relationship with health anxiety.Method: The present study was a descriptive correlational study design performed on 320 Tehran residents through online calling. Data were analyzed using Cronbach's alpha and exploratory factor analysis using 24Spss-software.Results: The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of 5 factors as Social responsibility, Confidence, Constraints, Calculation and Risk-taking, which explain 60.9% of the total variance. Also, the reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha indicates the optimal reliability for all reasons (α = 0.871), social responsibility factors (α = 0.832), Confidence factor (α = 0.697), Constraints factor (α =861/86), the profit and loss factor (α = 0.687) and the risk factor (α = 0.593). Standard scores were calculated, and the range of factor scores and the whole questionnaire was divided into medium, weak and strong domains based on standard scores.Conclusion: The present study showed that the tools required for adequacy design are necessary and can be used in future researches, and this control is sufficient to measure this structure in Iranian samples of reliability and validity.The present study showed that the designed tool is adequate and can be used in future research and this scale has sufficient reliability and validity to measure this structure in Iranian samples.