Social Attitude Profiles and Attribution Types Confronting Pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the social processes confronted during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that social problems should be primarily analyzed to utilize public health policies. The theoretical framework concerns social attitudes of behavior, emotion, and cognition (BEC) and social attribution types of inner and outer crossed by temporal and permanent, as proposed by Weiner (1974). A quasi-experiment research design was processed using a questionnaire which included personal identities designed by between-subject of 221 people sampled, and items of social attitudes profiles and attribution types designed by within-subject of 27 conditions. Factor analysis expounded that all the items be grouped into 8 independent components that corresponded to the items constructed to be evaluated as a successful design. Analyzing within-subject variables, BEC of social attitudes as health, medical, faith, and risk and mental symptoms except that of political were highly negative skewed in distributions. Each of BEC was individualized to compose the related social attitudes. For attribution types, the permanent ones of personal, governmental, and religious, but not medical, were attributed to the epidemic. This study suggested that social attitudes of BEC were adapted to the pandemic and that attribution should be regarded primarily to make policies efficient for public health.