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Sociodemographic, Cognitive, and Emotional Determinants of Two Health Behaviors during SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: An Online Study among French- Speaking Belgian Responders during the Spring Lockdown
| العنوان: | Sociodemographic, Cognitive, and Emotional Determinants of Two Health Behaviors during SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: An Online Study among French- Speaking Belgian Responders during the Spring Lockdown |
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| المؤلفون: | Bigot, Alix, Banse, Emilie, Cordonnier, Aline, Luminet, Olivier |
| المساهمون: | UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute |
| المصدر: | Psychologica Belgica, Vol. 61, no. 1, p. 63-78 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Societe Belge de Psychologie |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | pandemic, emotions, health behaviors, behavioral change, SARS-CoV-2, Theory of Planned Behavior |
| الوصف: | To contain the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate, health authorities have encouraged the population to enhance protective behaviors such as physical distancing and handwashing. Behavioral sciences emphasize the role of socio-cognitive determinants to explain health behaviors, while largely ignoring emotional factors. In a large online study (N > 4000), we investigated the role of sociodemographic, cognitive, emotional, and social factors that can facilitate or hinder handwashing and limitation of social contacts. Data were collected from March 18 until April 19, 2020, which corresponds to the spring lockdown and the first peak of the pandemic in Belgium. Logistic regressions showed that socio-demographic factors (gender, age, level of education) and the dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behavior (intentions, attitudes, perceived control and subjective norms) had a strong impact on health behaviors, but that emotional factors explained an additional part of the variance. Being attentive/determined and frightened/anxious were related to a higher frequency of handwashing, along with a high level of health anxiety. In contrast, being enthusiastic/happy was related to lower adherence to limiting social contacts. Our results suggest that the type of predictors and the direction of associations depend on the type of health behavior considered. The role of specific emotional factors in addition to more classical predictors is discussed. The study offers new perspectives regarding the factors that are associated with the adherence to behaviors recommended to adopt when faced with a pandemic. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0033-2879 2054-670X |
| Relation: | boreal:242912; http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/242912; urn:ISSN:0033-2879; urn:EISSN:2054-670X |
| DOI: | 10.5334/pb.712 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/242912 https://doi.org/10.5334/pb.712 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.E8716FB7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 00332879 2054670X |
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| DOI: | 10.5334/pb.712 |