How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador Citizens’ responses to policies depend on narrative meaning-making. Through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, this study addresses calls for increased insights into how processes of respo...

6 | The paper is Open Access and can be read here: doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

#EJSP #OpenAccess #Narratives #COVID-19 #meaning-making

5 | Very grateful to my PhD supervisors Sigrun Marie Moss and @bradywagoner.bsky.social , for all their valuable input on the study, and to @cphaugestad.bsky.social for assisting the interviews as an interpreter.

4 | The results highlight the importance of developing crisis mitigation measures in dialogue with local needs, disseminating accurate information, and, when possible, providing citizens with the necessary means to comply with measures.

3 | The key takeaway from the study: Sense of agency and responsibility can aid compliance, but structural constraints limiting citizens’ possibilities to comply must be acknowledged.

2 | Participants’ multilevel narrative engagement shaped how they attributed agency and responsibility in pandemic management, affecting their views of legitimacy of the measures, and whether non-compliers were seen as victims, villains, or both.

1 | Interview participants engaged with narratives from multiple levels in their meaning-making of the measures:
• Global level (e.g., WHO)
• National level (government)
• Community level (local communities)
• Interpersonal (family & friends)
I call this process multilevel narrative engagement.

How Do Citizens Respond to Government Measures in Times of Crisis? Narrative Meaning‐Making of Agency, Responsibility, and Compliance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Ecuador Citizens’ responses to policies depend on narrative meaning-making. Through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, this study addresses calls for increased insights into how processes of respo...

I’m delighted to share my newest PhD paper, which is out now in the European Journal of Social Psychology: doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

In the paper, through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador, I have investigated how people make sense of policies during global crises. 🧵

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Emotional responses to anthropogenic climate change have attracted significant attention. People negotiate emotions through culturally available frameworks. This study, based on 18 focus group discus...

🧵✨ Excited to share insights from my recently published paper, “You can’t live in fear all the time”: Affective Dilemmas in Youth’s Discussions on Climate Change in Norway, in the British Journal of Social Psychology! Here’s a breakdown of our findings: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Medicine Background Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is cruc...

Wondering about #OpenScience Practices for #Qualitative Research?

In our new paper, we showcase the use of audit trails to transparently document the full qualitative analysis procedure

Equivalent to sharing code in quantitative research. Check it out

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Very cool mixed-method study looking at why individuals are reluctant to get vaccinated

(A health sciences prof once said to me 'There's no point running a trial unless you get some qual data from patients too' and I think this applies to so much psych research. Quant + qual together is great!)

A really nice demonstration of transparent reporting for mixed methods ⬇️

Very proud to see the result of this great collaboration with Omid and others out in BMC Medicine!

Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Medicine Background Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is cruc...

Excited to share our BMC Medicine article on Modifiable Risk Factors of Vaccine Hesitancy

With 2 independent teams of authors blind to each others procedures, we combine gradient boosting machines & thematic analysis, & replicate results in 2 nations 🧵
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Our paper on vaccine hesitancy is now published in BMC Medicine! Very thankful to Omid and other colleagues for an inspiring collaboration!

5 | The main implication of our study is that online studies should strive to create a need-supportive environment that facilitates academic community while acknowledging many online students’ necessity for flexibility.

4 | We discuss the results in the light of self-determination theory, showing how flexibility in online studies can become both a facilitator and a barrier for basic need satisfaction in online higher education.

3 | Our thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with online students attending a highly flexible study programme resulted in four themes: 1) Expectations of being self-sufficient; 2) Collaboration if valuable and flexible; 3) Study groups as important but fragile communities; 4) Digital distance.

2 | Interaction and collaboration has been shown to be beneficial for online students’ learning and well-being, but can be challenging to facilitate in the online context. Therefore, in this study, we investigated barriers and facilitators for online students’ participation in such communities.

“It’s not like we go and chat just because we see each other’s name on the screen”: online students’ experiences of social and academic community - Discover Education Online students are becoming an increasingly big part of the student population in higher education. Interaction and collaboration is beneficial for academic performance and well-being, but can be cha...

New paper out in Discover Education! 🥳 In this study, Helga Fjærvoll and I have analysed interviews with online students about their experiences of belonging to a social and academic community: doi.org/10.1007/s442... 🧵

Calling all interdisciplinary Qualitative Researchers! We're pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Ninth Annual Qualitative Research Symposium (QRS): 'Openness, Transparency and Rigour in Qualitative Research'! Find out more and see our full call here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/qrs-2...

Conversations about open qual are kicking off in the other place- and not for good reasons 😓 There’s a lot of great work being done by qual folks interrogating how, why and when open research is appropriate, and to see that growing work ignored by a prominent figure in open science is frustrating. 😓