Personal protective behaviors in response to COVID-19: a longitudinal application of protection motivation theory.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Disease outbreaks are expected to occur more frequently and spread more rapidly in the age of globalization. Personal protective behaviors strongly affect infection and death rates worldwide. It is therefore of prime importance to better understand which factors predict personal protective behaviors during a pandemic. Protection motivation theory (PMT) proposes that people's motivation to protect themselves is based on two appraisal processes: threat appraisal and coping appraisal. Building on PMT, this longitudinal study aimed to predict personal protective behaviors in response to COVID-19, including hand hygiene, physical distancing, and mask wearing.

Method

In the first wave of the study (November, 2020), the two appraisal processes as specified in PMT as we

SUBMITTER: Hinssen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465328 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature