Prevention focus serves the need for security, and promotion focus serves the need for growth. Participants (N = 401) in the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic judged prevention more useful than promotion focus for responding to the virus. Controlling for relationships between support of needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness in responding to the virus, autonomy related positively to judged usefulness of promotion, and relatedness related positively to judged usefulness of prevention. The poster contains a QR code that links to the published article.
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Leigh Ann Vaughn
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