Hygiene and Social Distancing as Distinct Public Health Related Behaviours Among University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Social psychological bulletin(2020)
摘要
Prevailing research on individuals’ compliance with public health related behaviours during the
COVID-19 pandemic tends to study composite measures of multiple types of behaviours, without
distinguishing between different types of behaviours. However, measures taken by governments
involve adjustments concerning a range of different daily behaviours. In this study, we seek to
explain students’ public health related compliance behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic by
examining the underlying components of such behaviours. Subsequently, we investigate how these
components relate to individual attitudes towards public health measures, descriptive norms
among friends and family, and key demographics. We surveyed 7,403 university students in ten
countries regarding these behaviours. Principal Components Analysis reveals that compliance
related to hygiene (hand washing, coughing behaviours) is uniformly distinct from compliance
related to social distancing behaviours. Regression analyses predicting Social Distancing and
Hygiene lead to differences in explained variance and type of predictors. Our study shows that
treating public health compliance as a sole construct obfuscates the dimensionality of compliance
behaviours, which risks poorer prediction of individuals’ compliance behaviours and problems in
generating valid public health recommendations. Affecting these distinct behaviours may require
different types of interventions.
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covid-19,public health compliance,social distancing,hygiene,students,descriptive norms,attitude
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