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Project Citation: 

Orhun, Yesim, Cohn, Alain, and Raymond, Collin. Data and Code for: Motivated Optimism and Workplace Risk. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-04-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E198325V3

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
This project examines whether people engage in motivated optimism in the face of impending risk. It reports results from an online survey of U.S. workers returning back to work during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.



Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 5/6/2020 – 5/25/2020
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 5/6/2020 – 5/8/2020 (Wave 1); 5/17/2020 – 5/19/2020 (Wave 2); 5/21/2020 – 5/22/2020 (Wave 3); 5/23/2020 – 5/25/2020 (Wave 4)

Methodology

Sampling:  View help for Sampling The target group for our survey are working individuals in the U.S. who were furloughed or working from home at the time of the survey. A pre-screening survey administered by Lucid made sure that only qualified individuals were admitted who specified that they (1)  ``worked outside the home before and working from home now (or furloughed)'', and  (2)  ``have no choice but to return to the workplace.'' Those who reported working from home before, were unemployed, or continued to work outside their homes during the pandemic did not qualify. Similarly, individuals who thought they would have a choice to decide on when to return to the workplace, who thought they may not return to the workplace, or who had the option to continue working from home also did not qualify. These requirements guarantee that our respondents are not yet back to their workplaces at the time we surveyed them, and that they will have to return to their workplaces at some point in the future. Therefore, the survey only includes people who are staying at home at the time they are surveyed and expect to be returning to their workplaces when called back.  Our survey  also included  employment status verification and attention checks at the beginning to disqualify any remaining respondents who were not eligible to participate or were not paying sufficient attention to the survey questions.  Of the 3,904 respondents who qualified, 6 reported invalid zip-codes and 21 had already tested positive for COVID-19, and are therefore excluded from the analysis.

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