Adherence to COVID-19 measures : The critical role of autonomous motivation on a short and long-term basis
| Autor: | Sofie Morbée, Branko Vermote, Joachim Waterschoot, Lisa Dieleman, Bart Soenens, Omer Van den Bergh, Richard M. Ryan, Janne Vanhalst, Gert-Jan De Muynck, Maarten Vansteenkiste |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Environmental Engineering
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject self-determination theory Social Sciences Sample (statistics) PsycINFO Compliance (psychology) motivation Developmental and Educational Psychology Toxicology and Mutagenesis COVID-19motivation adherence PREDICTORS health care economics and organizations Applied Psychology media_common Government COVID-19 Term (time) MODEL Risk perception Self-determination Health SCHOOL INTERNALIZATION DEFIANCE Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | MOTIVATION SCIENCE |
| ISSN: | 2333-8113 2333-8121 |
| Popis: | To limit the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2-virus, governments worldwide have introduced behavioral measures that require considerable effort from their citizens to adhere to. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, the present research sought to examine in a study among Belgian citizens the cross-sectional (total N = 45975, Mage = 50.42), week-to-week (subsample 1; N = 981, Mage = 41.32), and long-term (subsample 2; N = 5643, Mage = 53.09) associations between various individual motives to follow government guidelines and their self-reported adherence to these measures. Controlling for COVID-specific concerns and perceived risk for infection, autonomous motivation related positively to citizens’ concurrent adherence (total sample), their increased week-to-week adherence during the lockdown (subsample 1), and their persistent adherence during an exit phase (subsample 2). Introjected regulation and external regulation were positively and negatively associated with concurrent adherence, respectively, but had no long-term predictive value. The findings indicate that citizens’ autonomous motivation is a robust predictor of adherence, suggesting that politicians, policymakers, and experts do well to adopt a communication style that ongoingly fosters autonomous motivation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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