During the quarantine, one could come across many recommendations from specialists, psychologists, coaches, opinion leaders, and ordinary people on how to cope with stress and fears brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.In that information flow, we paid attention to a very interesting infographic (https://clck.ru/NCBxg ) by Robert L. Leahy, Doctor of Psychology. This infographic is convenient for self-diagnostics. It will help you to see which sphere you are in: the sphere of fear, education, or growth! This scheme also supports tracking the movement from one sphere to another, depending on various internal and external circumstances.
Our curiosity turned into interest. Who we, the Kazakhstanis, are during COVID-19? We’ve transformed the scheme into a question with possible variants of answers, adapted it to a data collection methodology, and asked Kazakhstanis the following question: “How yould you describe your style of behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic? Choose one variant of the answer which provides the closest description of your behavior in the current conditions.”
The results should be reviewed in the context of a certain time period of collecting data, since, as we mentioned before, a person can move from one sphere to another.According to our measurements, on 17-22 April 2020, most of the Kazakhstanis (45%) were in the sphere of education, 43% tended for the behavior typical for the sphere of growth, 8% have found themselves in the sphere of fear, and 4% found it difficult to answer.
