Worry About Guest Mistreatment and Endorsement of COVID-19 Safety Policies

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• Personal Author:
  DiStaso MJ ; Grinley AC ; Schlotzhauer AE ; Shoss MK
• Description:
  Organizations can introduce a variety of policies that mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and encourage vaccinations to promote public health. Previous research suggests employees are hesitant about organizational changes because they may be perceived as threatening. In the current study, we suggest that employees may support the introduction of some policies precisely because these policies help reduce threats to well-being and safety in the work environment, especially those concerns that rise to the level of worry. Using a two-wave sample of frontline theme park workers surveyed at a time when COVID-19 safety policies had not yet been decided, we test the idea that workers are more likely to endorse COVID-19 safety policies when they are worried about COVID-related environmental risk in the form of mistreatment by guests and, subsequently, guest and worker vaccination status. Results suggest that worry about guest mistreatment predicts later endorsement of COVID-19 safety policies, and this effect is partly explained by worry about others' vaccination status. These effects occur independent of workers' dispositional tendencies to worry (trait neuroticism) and general optimism (trait optimism) about the future. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Public Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Mistreatment Worry COVID-19 Endorsement Of Safety Policies Mental Health Policy Public Health Uncertainty Management Vaccination Worry Vaccines Work Environment Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  2367-0134
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20068931
• Citation:
  Occup Health Sci 2023 Dec; 7(4):771-792
• Contact Point Address:
  Michael J. DiStaso, Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816
• Email:
  distasomds@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Health Science
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:39a6d65781058d618b1fc1176953d21e45c194fcac4f05059162b2b10ad309ce2d9cd49219df0ae9f36eb870ac22ed6793f846d4547d71090a07a36bfefc9231
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207494/cdc_207494_DS1.pdf
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