Individual and collective protective responses during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in 10 different countries: Results from the EUCLID online survey

Autor: Julia E. Koller, Karoline Villinger, Nadine C. Lages, Pilvikki Absetz, Melanie Bamert, Cátia Branquinho, Lourdes Chaves-Avilés, Panagiota Dimitropoulou, Ana Lucía Fernández-Fernández, Margarida Gaspar de Matos, Inguna Griskevica, Benicio Gutiérrez-Doña, Nelli Hankonen, Jennifer Inauen, Dimitrinka Jordanova Peshevska, Angelos P. Kassianos, Jelena Kolesnikova, Meta Lavrič, Tamara Mitanovska, Efrat Neter, Vita Poštuvan, Ingrida Trups-Kalne, Jorge Vargas-Carmiol, Harald T. Schupp, Britta Renner
Přispěvatelé: Tampere University, Health Sciences, Unit of Social Research, Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: 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
ISSN: 1878-3511
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.06.012
Popis: © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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 through an online survey from 4483 participants (70.8% female, M = 41.2 years) across 10 countries from April 15, 2020 to June 2, 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, the 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.
This study was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2117–422037984 (the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour), and under FOR 2374 (RiskDynamics), and by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) under 01EL1820A (SMARTACT).
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