Event Title
#MaskMadness: Exploring experiences of and attitudes toward facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic
Faculty Sponsor(s)
Lynette Bikos
Primary Department
Clinical Psychology
Description
Facemasks have been a recent symbol of political polarization. We explored the role of a person’s geopolitical context when it comes to facemask-wearing behaviors when evaluating stigma and a person’s affective well-being. Participants (N = 193) in our longitudinal, 12-wave study contributed 1,462 observations from April 2020 to September 2021. We hypothesized that the relationship between experienced stigma from wearing a facemask (IV) to positive affect (DV) would be mediated by the frequency of mask-wearing behaviors (M), and that the relationship between experienced stigma (IV) and mask-wearing (M) would be moderated by geopolitical context (W).
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#MaskMadness: Exploring experiences of and attitudes toward facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic
Facemasks have been a recent symbol of political polarization. We explored the role of a person’s geopolitical context when it comes to facemask-wearing behaviors when evaluating stigma and a person’s affective well-being. Participants (N = 193) in our longitudinal, 12-wave study contributed 1,462 observations from April 2020 to September 2021. We hypothesized that the relationship between experienced stigma from wearing a facemask (IV) to positive affect (DV) would be mediated by the frequency of mask-wearing behaviors (M), and that the relationship between experienced stigma (IV) and mask-wearing (M) would be moderated by geopolitical context (W).
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