Development and validation of the pandemic fatigue scale
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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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 6352 |
| Journal | Nature Communications |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISSN | 2041-1723 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
The Danish COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) project was funded by grants from both the Lundbeck Foundation (R349-2020-592) and the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) to I.Z. and R.B. The German COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) is a joint project of the University of Erfurt (Cornelia Betsch [PI], Lars Korn, Philipp Sprengholz, Philipp Schmid, Lisa Felgendreff, Sarah Eitze), the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI; Lothar H. Wieler, Patrick Schmich), the Federal Centre for Health Education (BzgA; Heidrun Thaiss, Freia De Bock), the Leibniz Centre for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID; Michael Bosnjak), the Science Media Center (SMC; Volker Stollorz), the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM; Michael Ramharter), and the Yale Institute for Global Health (Saad Omer). The study was funded by the German Research Foundation (BE3970/11-1, 12-1 to C.B.), University of Erfurt, Robert Koch-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Federal Centre for Health Education.
Funding Information:
The Danish COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) project was funded by grants from both the Lundbeck Foundation (R349-2020-592) and the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) to I.Z. and R.B. The German COVID-19 Snapshot Monitoring (COSMO) is a joint project of the University of Erfurt (Cornelia Betsch [PI], Lars Korn, Philipp Sprengholz, Philipp Schmid, Lisa Felgendreff, Sarah Eitze), the Robert Koch-Institute (RKI; Lothar H. Wieler, Patrick Schmich), the Federal Centre for Health Education (BzgA; Heidrun Thaiss, Freia De Bock), the Leibniz Centre for Psychological Information and Documentation (ZPID; Michael Bosnjak), the Science Media Center (SMC; Volker Stollorz), the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM; Michael Ramharter), and the Yale Institute for Global Health (Saad Omer). The study was funded by the German Research Foundation (BE3970/11-1, 12-1 to C.B.), University of Erfurt, Robert Koch-Institute, Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, Federal Centre for Health Education.
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