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Descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and bivariate correlations between the variables measured in Study 1.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions encouraged social isolation and non-interaction with other people to prevent contagion. Still, the response to an impending economic crisis must be through collective organization. In this set of pre-registered studies, we analyze two possible mechanisms of coping with collective economic threat: shared so...
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... correlations between the main variables and descriptive statistics are presented in Table 1. Note: * p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ET., Economic Threat; Id., Identification; EI., Economic Inequality; Inter. ...Context 2
... summary of the descriptive statistics and correlation between the variables of our Study 1 is presented in Table 1. Note: * p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; CET., Collective Economic Threat; IET., Individual Economic Threat; CHT., Collective Health Threat; IHT., Individual Health Threat; WC Id., Working class identification; 99% id., 99% identification; H id., Humanity identification; Inter. ...Similar publications
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... At Time 2, these respondents viewed the globally shared nature of the pandemic as an opportunity to restore this imbalance in their relationship with others and described two ways in which they plugged in: by developing a bond with a global collective, and by connecting on a more personal level with colleagues. Research evidence is mixed regarding whether, during changeful times, people connect (e.g., del Fresno-Díaz et al., Estevan-Reina, Sánchez-Rodríguez, Willis, & de Lemus, 2023;Flade, Klar & Imhoff, 2019) or focus on themselves and disconnect (e.g., Dinić & Bodroža, 2021;Jo, Harrison & Gray, 2021), and scholars have called for a better understanding of global professionals' experiences in that regard (Caligiuri et al., 2020). Our data suggest that individuals' desire to affiliate or detach in response to a disruption is not monolithic. ...
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