Open AccessCOVID-19 pandemic through the lens of person-situation interaction
Author(s) -
Erita Narhetali
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jurnal psikologi sosial/jurnal psikologi sosial
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2615-8558
pISSN - 0853-3997
DOI - 10.7454/jps.2021.14
Subject(s) - pandemic , social distance , situational ethics , covid-19 , distancing , through the lens metering , perception , psychology , social psychology , personal protective equipment , sociology , lens (geology) , medicine , engineering , virology , disease , pathology , neuroscience , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , petroleum engineering
This paper aims to describe how emotions, risk perceptions, and social norms shape their protective behavior under uncertainty time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protective behavior means all individual efforts to comply with the pandemic measures: staying at home, hand washing, physical distancing, and wearing masks. Borrowing insight from the person-situation theory by Kurt Lewin, I try to entangle the interaction between personal and situational factors lingered within the pandemic environment that leads to our particular behavioral response. Following this, I discussed how people can comply with the measures and policies being enacted.