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Peers for the fearless: Social norms facilitate preventive behaviour when individuals perceive low COVID-19 health risks
| العنوان: | Peers for the fearless: Social norms facilitate preventive behaviour when individuals perceive low COVID-19 health risks |
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| المؤلفون: | Kittel, Bernhard, Kalleitner, Fabian, Schiestl, David W. |
| المساهمون: | Daoust, Jean-François, austrian science fund, vienna science and technology fund, Rectorate of the University of Vienna, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte Wien, Industriellenvereinigung Wien |
| المصدر: | PLOS ONE ; volume 16, issue 12, page e0260171 ; ISSN 1932-6203 |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | PLOS Publications (via CrossRef) |
| الوصف: | A strategy frequently adopted to contain the COVID-19 pandemic involves three non-pharmaceutical interventions that depend on high levels of compliance in society: maintaining physical distance from others, minimizing social contacts, and wearing a face mask. These measures require substantial changes in established practices of social interaction, raising the question of which factors motivate individuals to comply with these preventive behaviours. Using Austrian panel survey data from April 2020 to April 2021, we show that perceived health risks, social norms, and trust in political institutions stimulate people to engage in preventive behaviour. A moderation analysis shows that the effectiveness of social norms in facilitating preventive behaviour increases when people’s perceptions of health risks decrease. No such moderation effect is observed for trust in political institutions. These results suggest that strong social norms play a crucial role in achieving high rates of preventive behaviour, especially when perceived levels of health risks are low. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0260171 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260171 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260171 |
| Rights: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.B9148FE9 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0260171 |
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