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Community resilience and anxiety among Chinese older adults during COVID ‐19: The moderating role of trust in local government
Author(s) -
Zhang Jinfeng,
Wang Yan,
Zhou Mingjie,
Ke Jihong
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.2563
Subject(s) - covid-19 , psychology , anxiety , government (linguistics) , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , social psychology , gerontology , psychiatry , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , physics , virology , outbreak , thermodynamics
The worldwide spread of COVID‐19 has resulted in an enormous threat to public health, causing global panic, especially older adults suffering severe anxiety due to their vulnerability. With a questionnaire survey on 213 Chinese older adults in April 2020, we examined the role of community resilience in protecting older adults from anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic, and simultaneously considered the moderating role of trust in local government. The results indicated that community resilience was negatively associated with older adults' anxiety, and this association was weakened for older adults with low trust in local government. This study has implications for intervention designs that combine resilient factors related to communities and local governments to relieve older adults' anxiety during the pandemic. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.