Intentions and Behavioural Determinants in the Face of covid-19 Pandemic: A Theory of Planned Behaviour and Risk Perception model
Avances En Psicologia Latinoamericana
; 41(2):1-22, 2023.
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in English
| Web of Science | ID: covidwho-20232927
ABSTRACT
The containment of covid-19 implied challenges for governments and health authorities to motivate citizens to adopt several prevention behaviours (i.e., wearing a face mask and washing hands frequently). This paper aims to identify the factors that encourage people to adopt these behaviours. Our analysis was conducted over data collected by ascofapsi and the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona about attitudes and beliefs related to the pandemic from 919 people from Colombia. The data was collected using an online snowball sampling between May and June 2020. We found that each prevention behaviour is motivated by a different set of factors. Specifically, based on the theory of planned behaviour, our results suggest that the intention to adopt a preventive behaviour is pre-dicted by a group of variables about subjective norms and attitudes as independent variables and another one linked to perceived control as mediator variables. This suggests that the motivation for prevention behaviours from authorities should be particular to each behaviour and consider the associated particular pattern of motivations and the sociodemographic characteristics and possibilities of action.
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Prognostic study
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English
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Avances En Psicologia Latinoamericana
Year:
2023
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