Abstract

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are considered in terms of personal construct theory, including the diagnostic constructs proposed by George Kelly. The pandemic is seen to have caused transitions in people’s construing, experienced, for example, as anxiety, threat, guilt, and shame; and strategies to cope with it have included constriction and hostility. The reactions both of individuals and of governments differ, reflecting the individuality of construing, and can be usefully viewed in terms of personal construct perspectives on choice and decision-making. Losses resulting from the pandemic may be dealt with by a process of meaning reconstruction, and alternative constructions of it may usefully include consideration of positive changes that it has brought about, including reevaluation of the superordinate constructs of individuals and societies.

摘要

从个人建构理论的角度考虑对 COVID-19 大流行的反应，包括乔治凯利提出的诊断建构。这场大流行被认为导致人们的理解和体验发生转变，例如焦虑、威胁、内疚和羞耻；应对它的策略包括收缩和敌意。个人和政府的反应各不相同，反映了解释的个性，可以从个人对选择和决策的构建观点来看待。大流行造成的损失可以通过意义重建的过程来处理，它的替代结构可能有用地包括考虑它带来的积极变化，