This issue could also affect the survey’s measure of whether or not someone developed long COVID, particularly given public sentiment shifting toward denial of impact. To the extent that Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black individuals are more likely than Asian and non-Hispanic white individuals to ...
individual perceptual system (self, others, reality), such as denial, acting out, projective identification, and splitting, serving to suppress emotional awareness and mitigate its threatening and distressing effect (Boldrini et al.,2020). Research has demonstrated that the maturity of defensive functio...
The kind of strategy least likely to create lasting satisfactory relationships is one in which people only acknowledge one extreme side of the tension, which Baxter and Montgomery call denial. This does not mean people are themselves ‘in denial’ in the popular psychology sense of the term, but...
Covid denial is definitely one of them. It will form a whole new cluster of takes on the pandemic, from claims that the death toll is being inflated, to the lack of importance of social distancing, mask wearing and when they become widely available, vaccines. The denial started very early...
vaccine hesitancy is not synonymous with vaccine denial, which questions efficacy and propagates potential harms from vaccines37. With luck, some of those who are rejecting the idea of being vaccinated now are more hesitant than they are deniers, and they will be receptive to increased evidence ...
Masculinity affects health-seeking behaviours and can lead to denial of illness, reluctance to use healthcare services, and avoidance of preventive measures [12, 13]. However, this concept of masculinity is dynamic and can vary by age, socioeconomic status, and cultural context [11, 14, 15]....
mechanism by which Communists were accomplishing this nefarious aim to “impurify” Americans’ “precious bodily fluids”, as he explains while US troops are attacking his base as part of the government’s effort to take over the base, locate the recall code, and thereby abort...
Finally, self-esteem experiences mainly manifest in the denial of personal freedom and refusal of the right to expression. It was found that the enforced “physical isolation” intended to protect and prolong the length of an individual’s life led to the freedom dilemma65. We have no intention...
On many occasions, fact checkers are simply a transmitter of the denial from the institution or the politician subject to allegations; in such situations, their role is closer to that of simple spokesperson of the institution, and they do not take any investigative action. This is the case in...
Consequently, communications during a crisis should take into consideration certain patterns that affect people’s behavior, such as uncertainty, anxiety, fear, panic, hopelessness, and denial (Addo et al., 2020, CDC.gov., 2019), in addition to positive ones such as coping, relief, and ...