Objective Exploring people's characteristics of risk perception under SARS situation, finding out how risk perception affects behavior and mental health, offering helpful research result for the related governmental department and for the public, offering psychological evidence and coping strategies.
Methods By stratified sampling and convenient sampling, survey of 1500 people is taken in Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang and Huhehaote.People's risk perception, degree of tension, prediction about when SARA would be controlled, mental health, coping behavior and prediction about the economic development are explored by Likert Scale and GHQ.
Results (1) SARS information from nearby place can draw more attention, urban people in Beijing were more sensitive to infection and recovery information than those in nearby cities.(2)Female fell more risk, government and public information are drawn more attention by middle and elder people, youth under 20 pay more attention to information related to their study and life, and people above 50 were more sensitive to recovery information than other groups.(3)Risk assessment of people near Beijing were significantly lower than that of people in Beijing, and college student's mental health should be paid more attention in some place.
Conclusion It can be understood that the difference of people's risk perception and its effect on different coping behavior and mental health of different groups by taking survey of people in emergency.The research of people's social-psychological behavior should be improved in public emergency.
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