Predicting health behaviors across Belgium and France during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic

The objective of the current research was to investigate how a series of psychological factors may underlie two COVID-19 health behaviors, and how a contextual factor (country of residence) could shape their influence. Cross-sectional results from the first pandemic wave (NBelgium = 4878, NFrance = 1071) showed that handwashing and social contacts limitation are predicted by a unique set of psychological variables that holds across Belgium and France, despite their distinct lockdown-policies strictness. In practice, policy-makers could leverage on these unique predictors and fine-tune their st... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Schmitz, Mathias
Wollast, Robin
Bigot, Alix
Luminet, Olivier
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: Sage Publications Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26603790
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/259366

The objective of the current research was to investigate how a series of psychological factors may underlie two COVID-19 health behaviors, and how a contextual factor (country of residence) could shape their influence. Cross-sectional results from the first pandemic wave (NBelgium = 4878, NFrance = 1071) showed that handwashing and social contacts limitation are predicted by a unique set of psychological variables that holds across Belgium and France, despite their distinct lockdown-policies strictness. In practice, policy-makers could leverage on these unique predictors and fine-tune their strategies accordingly to promote adherence to each measure while generalizing it across similar nations.