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Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation
With a large international sample (n = 8317), the present study examined which beliefs and attitudes about COVID-19 predict 1) following government recommendations, 2) taking health precautions (including mask wearing, social distancing, handwashing, and staying at home), and 3) encouraging others t...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.06.003 |
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author | Clark, Cory Davila, Andrés Regis, Maxime Kraus, Sascha |
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description | With a large international sample (n = 8317), the present study examined which beliefs and attitudes about COVID-19 predict 1) following government recommendations, 2) taking health precautions (including mask wearing, social distancing, handwashing, and staying at home), and 3) encouraging others to take health precautions. The results demonstrate the importance of believing that taking health precautions will be effective for avoiding COVID-19 and generally prioritizing one’s health. These beliefs continued to be important predictors of health behaviors after controlling for demographic and personality variables. In contrast, we found that perceiving oneself as vulnerable to COVID-19, the perceived severity of catching COVID-19, and trust in government were of relatively little importance. We also found that women were somewhat more likely to engage in these health behaviors than men, but that age was generally unrelated to voluntary compliance behaviors. These findings may suggest avenues and dead ends for behavioral interventions during COVID-19 and beyond. |
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spelling | pubmed-73189692020-06-29 Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation Clark, Cory Davila, Andrés Regis, Maxime Kraus, Sascha Glob Transit Article With a large international sample (n = 8317), the present study examined which beliefs and attitudes about COVID-19 predict 1) following government recommendations, 2) taking health precautions (including mask wearing, social distancing, handwashing, and staying at home), and 3) encouraging others to take health precautions. The results demonstrate the importance of believing that taking health precautions will be effective for avoiding COVID-19 and generally prioritizing one’s health. These beliefs continued to be important predictors of health behaviors after controlling for demographic and personality variables. In contrast, we found that perceiving oneself as vulnerable to COVID-19, the perceived severity of catching COVID-19, and trust in government were of relatively little importance. We also found that women were somewhat more likely to engage in these health behaviors than men, but that age was generally unrelated to voluntary compliance behaviors. These findings may suggest avenues and dead ends for behavioral interventions during COVID-19 and beyond. The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2020 2020-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7318969/ /pubmed/32835202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.06.003 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Clark, Cory Davila, Andrés Regis, Maxime Kraus, Sascha Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation |
title | Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation |
title_full | Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation |
title_fullStr | Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation |
title_short | Predictors of COVID-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: An international investigation |
title_sort | predictors of covid-19 voluntary compliance behaviors: an international investigation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7318969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835202 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.glt.2020.06.003 |
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