The mission of the Changing Societies & Personalities journal is quite ambitious: the journal “examines how rapid societal-level changes are reshaping individuallevel beliefs, motivations and values – and how these individual-level changes in turn are reshaping societies”. Fulfilling such a mission involves examining different cases happening to individuals in various countries, societies and communities. On the one hand, it is unlikely that we will ever face a lack of such cases; on the other, they demonstrate a vast diversity, thus requiring adequate and appropriate research methodologies. We hope that the current issue of CS&P is a good example of such adequacy and diversity through providing a tribune for authors from nine countries. The authors’ team representing three countries – Mohmmed Salah Hassan, Ali Najem, Asbah Razali (Malaysia), Hussam Al Halbusi, Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah (Oman) and Kent A. Williams (Canada) – presents the results of a research study entitled Risk Perception, Self-Efficacy, Trust in Government, and the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Media Content During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The authors stress that, in the turbulent times of the pandemic, the critical duty of the research is “to explore and understand behavioural responses to the risk of infection..., especially how people assert their risk perception and how these perceptions shape self-efficacy beliefs”. Additional important fields of the research include the exploration of the risk perception as an interpretation and subjective judgment about a current risk; the evaluation of the social media’ exposure of the appropriate information; the trust in the government, which is vital to the policy’s success during a crisis; and the study of the construct of self-efficacy. The researchers gathered data from 512 individuals (students and academics) based in Malaysia. In investigating the impact of risk perception on trust in government and self-efficacy during the COVID 19 pandemic, the authors have made conclusions concerning, in particular, how social media helped shape behavioural patterns and attitudes.

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案例的多元化——价值观的多元化

《不断变化的社会与个性》杂志的使命非常雄心勃勃：该杂志“研究社会层面的快速变化如何重塑个人层面的信念、动机和价值观——以及这些个人层面的变化又如何重塑社会”。完成这样的使命需要检查发生在不同国家、社会和社区的个人身上的不同案例。一方面，我们不太可能面临缺乏此类案例的情况；另一方面，它们表现出巨大的多样性，因此需要充分和适当的研究方法。我们希望本期的 CS&P 通过为来自九个国家的作者提供论坛，成为这种充分性和多样性的一个很好的例子。代表三个国家的作者团队——Mohmmed Salah Hassan、Ali Najem、Asbah Razali（马来西亚）、Hussam Al Halbusi、Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah（阿曼）和 Kent A. Williams（加拿大）——展示了题为“风险感知、自我效能、对政府的信任和调节作用”的研究结果在 COVID-19 大流行期间感知到的社交媒体内容。作者强调，在大流行的动荡时期，研究的关键职责是“探索和理解对感染风险的行为反应......，特别是人们如何断言他们的风险感知以及这些感知如何塑造自我效能信念”。该研究的其他重要领域包括探索风险感知作为对当前风险的解释和主观判断；评估社交媒体对适当信息的曝光；对政府的信任，这对于危机期间政策的成功至关重要；以及自我效能感建构的研究。研究人员收集了来自马来西亚 512 名个人（学生和学者）的数据。在调查 COVID 19 大流行期间风险感知对政府信任和自我效能的影响时，作者得出了特别是关于社交媒体如何帮助塑造行为模式和态度的结论。