COVID‐19 cases correlate with greater acceptance coping in flexible cultures: A cross‐cultural study in 26 countries

• DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12919
• Publication Date: 2023-12-06T19:26:14Z
• Authors: Xiaoyu Zhou; Alexander Scott E...; Steve J. Kulich; Lu Zheng; Tales Alves; Sibele D. Aquino; Sanja Batić Očovaj; Hacer Belen; Ashley Biddle; Chinun Boonroungrut; Adolfo Fabricio L...; Rita Castro; Cicilia Chettiar; Phatthanakit Chob...; Richard G. Cowden; Dmitrii Dubrov; Mehrdad F. Falava...; Tahir Farid; Nicolas Geeraert; Dmitry Grigoryev; Hendrik Gunawan; Joep Hofhuis; Kazi Nur Hossain; Kaiyue Huang; Huang Jiang; Veljko Jovanović; Nuannut Khieowan; Monika Klimek‐Tulwin; Natasza Kosakowsk...; Jonas R. Kunst; Katharina Lefring...; Xiaoyuan Li; Samuel Lins; Sadia Malik; Fridanna Maricchiolo; Laura Martínez‐Bu...; Elma Medosevic ‐ ...; Benjamin H. Nam; Ginés Navarro‐Car...; Jose Candido Pere...; Felipe Novaes; Eliza Oliver; Daniele Paolini; Joonha Park; Dušana Šakan; Miriam Schwarzenthal; Qian Sun; Thomas Talhelm; Robert Thomson; Arun Tipandjan; Rongtian Tong; Jorge Torres‐Marín; Shuang Wang; Liuqing Wei; Victoria Wai Lan ...; Mahdi Yousefi; Ananta Yudiarso; Masaki Yuki; Xinyi Zhang
• Keywords: 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Pandemic

Abstract The current study examines whether the prevalence of COVID‐19 cases and cultural flexibility correlate to one's use acceptance coping across 26 cultures. We analyzed data from 7476 participants worldwide at start first outbreak March 2020 June 2020. Results showed that moderated relationship between individuals' strategies. Specifically, for cultures with high flexibility, correlated more coping; low less coping. This result demonstrates how flexible can coexist realistic challenges suffering faced during this pandemic.