Monday, 15 March 2021, 4:03 pm
A University of Waikato academic has played a key role in
an international study researching human experience,
behaviour and attitudes towards the Covid-19
pandemic.
Dr Taciano Milfont joined the COVIDiSTRESS
global survey which gathered data from participants across
the globe in the early months of the pandemic last
year.
In a study published in Royal
Society Open Science, the team examined stress and worry
across over 170,000 respondents from 48
countries.
While there were no clear geographical
boundaries, respondents in Western European countries
expressed greater stress and worry about Covid-19 and more
trust in governments’ effort to handle the crisis than