When it comes to COVID-19, there's no such thing as 'too healthy to get sick'
If you’re wondering what the “personal fable” means, this is another component of Elkind’s approach to understanding adolescent egocentrism. The personal fable refers to the narrative that young people construct of their lives in which they write themselves in as the heroes or heroines, and thus can’t be affected by the dangers that threaten ordinary mortals. This includes, according to Potard et al., the ability to drink and drive without suffering any getting into an accident.
The online sample in the French study consisted of 368 French drivers with an average age of 23. Nearly one-third reported that they had engaged in drinking and driving in the past 12 months, with men reporting higher levels. A disturbingly high percent believed that it was acceptable to drive after 1 or 2 drinks, and men had more permissive attitudes toward this behavior than did the female respondents.
To measure perceived invulnerability, the research team included questions again specifically designed for driving. The authors devised these three separate scales to capture what they call “three faces of invulnerability”:: The opinions of other people just don’t bother me.Although this was a correlational study, the theoretical model adopted by Potard and her colleagues allowed them to test directionality as they traced the routes from attitudes to behavior.
Moving on to the role of perceived invulnerability, scores on the psychological dimension proved to be predictive of the subjective norms component of TPB. In the words of the authors, “These people feel protected by an egocentric personal fable and perceive others as being favorable to road violations in accordance with their own behavior .
Age may be one predictor of perception of invulnerability, but people of all ages who see themselves as “too healthy” to get sick, whether through the current pandemic or with regard to chronic diseases, need to have someone pop their bubble of illusory control.
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