"Responsible" or "Strange?" Differences in Face Mask Attitudes and Use Between Chinese and Non-East Asian Canadians During COVID-19's First Wave.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists and scholars noted differences between Asians and North Americans in their support for public mask use. These differences were primarily assumed to be due d to variations in ethnocultural norms and practices. To better ascertain people's motives for wearing masks and potential cultural differences in these rationales, this comparative, mixed-methods research examines Chinese and non-East Asian Canadians' mask use attitudes utilizing online group interviews (Study 1) and a nation-wide survey (Study 2) Study 1, conducted in the early stages of the pandemic, captured an ambivalent, yet evolving attitude toward public mask use among the non-East Asian Canadians, which differed from their Chinese counterparts who more uniformly perceived mask use favorably.

COVID discrimination experience: Chinese Canadians' social identities moderate the effect of personal and group discrimination on well-being.

Objective: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has amplified preexisting racism and xenophobia. In this study, we investigated (a) whether perceived personal and group discrimination make distinct contributions to Chinese Canadians' negative affect and concern that the heightened discrimination they experienced during the pandemic will continue after the pandemic; (b) whether Canadian and Chinese identities and social support moderate the effect of discrimination on this concern; and (c) whether race-based rejection sensitivity (RS) explains why each type of discrimination predicts negative affect and expectation of future discrimination.

Method: A sample of Chinese Canadian adults across Canadian provinces ( = 516; = 42.

Public Health Messages About Face Masks Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of and Impacts on Canadians.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadians faced much ambiguity in the public health messages around face mask use. As public health messaging plays a pivotal role in the provision of directives during a health crisis, this study examines Canadians' opinions on the early messaging they received regarding personal protection, especially around mask use, with the goal of identifying potential improvements to strengthen future health messaging. Nine online focus group interviews with 47 Canadians were conducted.

Producing what in the transition? Health messaging and cultural constructions of health in Tonga.

This paper asks: what have the health promotion campaigns in Tonga actually produced, and what does this imply for our understanding of the "health transition?" Examination of villagers' responses to health messaging reveals an efflorescence of ideas about health, including a re-conceptualizing of the formal Westernized terminology of health promotion messages into concepts more aligned with traditional Tongan ways of being well. This implies the need for a model of the health transition process in which mutual shifts in understanding must be recognized by all parties, traditional villager and medicalized health professional alike, before new ideas of 'health' are actualized.