Koller, Julia E; Villinger, Karoline; Lages, Nadine C; Absetz, Pilvikki; Bamert, Melanie; Branquinho, Cátia; Chaves-Avilés, Lourdes; Dimitropoulou, Panagiota; Fernández-Fernández, Ana Lucía; de Matos, Margarida Gaspar; Griskevica, Inguna; Gutiérrez-Doña, Benicio; Hankonen, Nelli; Inauen, Jennifer; Peshevska, Dimitrinka Jordanova; Kassianos, Angelos P; Kolsenikova, Jelena; Lavrič, Meta; Mitanovska, Tamara; Neter, Efrat; ... (2022). Individual and collective protective responses during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 different countries: Results from the EUCLID online-survey. International journal of infectious diseases, 122, pp. 356-364. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.012
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BACKGROUND
In times of unprecedented infectious disease threats, it is essential to understand how to increase individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures. The present study therefore examines factors associated with individual and collective pathways.
METHODS
Data was collected via an online survey from 4,483 participants (70.8% female, M=41.2 years) across 10 countries from April 15th to June 2nd, 2020, as part of the "EUCLID" project (https://euclid.dbvis.de). Structural equation modeling was used to examine individual and collective pathways across and within countries.
RESULTS
Overall, adoption of individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures were high. Risk perception on the individual level and perceived effectiveness at the collective level were positively associated with both individual protective behaviors and support for collective measures. Furthermore, the model explained considerable variance in individual (40.7%) and collective protective behaviors (40.8%), and was largely replicated across countries.
CONCLUSIONS
The study extends previous research by demonstrating that individual risk perception and perceived effectiveness of collective measures jointly affect individual protective health behaviors and support for collective measures. These findings highlight the need to jointly consider a variety of behavioral actions against infectious disease threats acknowledging interactions between individual and collective pathways.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health |
UniBE Contributor: |
Bamert, Melanie, Inauen, Jennifer |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1878-3511 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
22 Jun 2022 09:35 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:21 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.012 |
PubMed ID: |
35709963 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
collective measures cross-amplification cross-country differences protective behavior risk perception |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/170783 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170783 |
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