Coming together after standing apart: What predicts felt safety in the post-coronavirus crowd?

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Over a year after the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, and the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic with its lockdowns and social distancing requirements, being together with others again seems possible. Against this backdrop, important questions arise about how to safely manage gatherings of large numbers of unrelated people - like festivals, concerts and sporting matches - and how individuals contemplating involvement in such events feel about the risks presented.

Methods

To begin answering these questions, the current research surveyed would-be attendees at one of Europe's largest outdoor music festivals (n = 18353). Drawing on social psychological theories of crowd behavior and risk perception, we explored the identity processes that contributed to individual feelings of safety wi

SUBMITTER: Morton TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665825 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature