Human behavior, trustworthiness, and attitude during COVID-19 lockdown in Indian modern societal and cultural antiquity.

A slaughterer or killer wave of lenient COVID-19 pandemic disease breaks the normal rhythm of global socio-economic and cultural livelihood. This research attempts to evaluate trustworthiness toward God, Doctor, Politician, and Administrator along with attitude and behavior of Indian people during s...

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Publicado en:Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment Vol. 31; no. 1-4; pp. 77 - 97
Autores principales: Bera, Biswajit, Bhattacharjee, Sumana, Sengupta, Nairita
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Jun2021
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Sumario:A slaughterer or killer wave of lenient COVID-19 pandemic disease breaks the normal rhythm of global socio-economic and cultural livelihood. This research attempts to evaluate trustworthiness toward God, Doctor, Politician, and Administrator along with attitude and behavior of Indian people during such global emergency. Around 323 respondents have sent their opinion through digital social media platforms like Google Forms, Zoom Cloud Meeting, WhatsApp Group Chat for such perception study. The multivariate statistical techniques like Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA), Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) have been performed using IBM SPSS (v 25) statistical software to analyze the trustworthiness, attitude, and behavior of respondents during COVID-19 lockdown. Result shows that maximum people express their faith to God or Prophets or Spiritual leader during COVID-19 pandemic. This belief or trust is transmitted in the blood of Indian people by generation after generation through cultural antiquity. This study is also focused that the people also undergo through various situations like anxiety, tension, fears of infection, anger, mental disorder, isolation and cohabitation stress, stigmatization, domestic violence etc. due to long-time detention in the sealed concrete walls as well as curbed cubicles.