Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258801 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Risk and Financial Management [ISSN:] 1911-8074 [Volume:] 15 [Issue:] 2 [Article No.:] 78 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-15
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
Will there be a greater sense of solidarity and friendship during public crises? This study aims to determine whether risk perception influences employees' willingness to assist in times of public crisis, taking COVID-19 as a specific research scenario and based on the theory of 'tend and befriend'. This study hypothesized that risk perception will influence employees' helping behavior via the in-group identity, with the degree of impact dependent on the COVID-19 pandemic's severity. A questionnaire survey of 925 practitioners from various industries in the pandemic area revealed that: risk perception has a positive influence on employees' helping behavior; in-group identity plays a certain mediating role in the process of risk perception that influences employees' helping behavior; and the severity of a local pandemic negatively moderates the relationship between risk perception and helping behavior, but positively moderates the relationship between risk perception and in-group identity. Specifically, employees in high-risk areas are more likely to 'align' (higher degree of recognition by the in-group) but demonstrate less helping behavior, compared with those in areas with moderate and low risk from the COVID-19. By contrast, employees in low-risk areas display more helping behavior but have less in-group identity, compared with those in areas with moderate and high risk from the COVID-19. This study expands the research on the relationship between risk perception and helping behavior, enriches the research results on risk management theory, and provides a practical reference for risk governance.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
helping behavior
in-group identity
risk perception
severity of a local pandemic
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