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Development and validation of the pandemic fatigue scale

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

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  • Lau Lilleholt, Københavns Universitet
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  • Ingo Zettler, Københavns Universitet
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  • Cornelia Betsch, University of Erfurt, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
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  • Robert Böhm, Københavns Universitet, University of Vienna

The existence and nature of pandemic fatigue–defined as a gradually emerging subjective state of weariness and exhaustion from, and a general demotivation towards, following recommended health-protective behaviors, including keeping oneself informed during a pandemic–has been debated. Herein, we introduce the Pandemic Fatigue Scale and show how pandemic fatigue evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic, using data from one panel survey and two repeated cross-sectional surveys in Denmark and Germany (overall N = 34,582). We map the correlates of pandemic fatigue and show that pandemic fatigue is negatively related to people’s self-reported adherence to recommended health-protective behaviors. Manipulating the (de)motivational aspect of pandemic fatigue in a preregistered online experiment (N = 1584), we further show that pandemic fatigue negatively affects people’s intention to adhere to recommended health-protective behaviors. Combined, these findings provide evidence not only for the existence of pandemic fatigue, but also its psychological and behavioral associations.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer6352
TidsskriftNature Communications
Vol/bind14
Nummer1
Antal sider19
ISSN2041-1723
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StatusUdgivet - dec. 2023

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