The Role of Risk Perceptions and Affective Consequences in COVID-19 Protective Behaviors.

Autor: Alegria KE; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Fleszar-Pavlović SE; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Ngo DD; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Beam A; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Halliday DM; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Hinojosa BM; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Hua J; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Johnson AE; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., McAnally K; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., McKinley LE; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Temourian AA; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA., Song AV; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, CA, USA. asong5@ucmerced.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of behavioral medicine [Int J Behav Med] 2021 Dec; Vol. 28 (6), pp. 801-807. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Apr 08.
DOI: 10.1007/s12529-021-09970-4
Abstrakt: Background: Slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) requires behavioral changes such as physical distancing (e.g., staying a 6-foot distance from others, avoiding mass gatherings, reducing houseguests), wearing masks, reducing trips to nonessential business establishments, and increasing hand washing. Like other health behaviors, COVID-19 related behaviors may be related to risk representations. Risk representations are the cognitive responses a person holds about illness risk such as, identity (i.e., label/characteristics of risk), cause (i.e., factors causing condition), timeline (i.e., onset/duration of risk), consequences (i.e., intrapersonal/interpersonal outcomes), behavioral efficacy (i.e., if and how the condition can be controlled/treated), and illness risk coherence (i.e., extent to which representations, behaviors, and beliefs are congruent). The current study applies the Common-Sense Model of Self-Regulation (CSM-SR) to evaluate how risk representations may relate to COVID-19 protective and risk behaviors.
Methods: Participants include 400 workers from Amazon's Mechanical Turk aged ≥ 18 years and US residents. Participants completed an online survey measuring risk representations (B-IPQ) and COVID-19 related behaviors, specifically, physical distancing, hand washing, and shopping frequency.
Results: Risk coherence, consequences, timeline, emotional representation, and behavioral efficacy were related to risk and protective behaviors.
Conclusions: Risk representations vary in their relationship to COVID-19 risk and protective behaviors. Implications include the importance of coherent, targeted, consistent health communication, and effective health policy in mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
(© 2021. International Society of Behavioral Medicine.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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