Cross-temporal relations of conditional risk perception measures with protective actions against COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: Two decades ago a research team clarified that cross-sectional associations of risk perceptions and protective behavior can only test an "accuracy" hypothesis: e.g., people with higher risk perceptions at T_i should also exhibit low protective behavior and/or high risky behavior at T_i. They argued that these associations are too often interpreted wrongly as testing two other hypotheses, only testable longitudinally: the "behavioral motivation" hypothesis, that high risk perception at T_i increases protective behavior at T_i+1, and the "risk reappraisal" hypothesis, that protective behavior at T_i reduces risk perception at T_i+1. Further, this team argued that risk perception measures should be conditional (e.g., personal risk pe

SUBMITTER: Johnson BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10029334 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature