Compliance without fear: Individual-level protective behaviour during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic required rapid public compliance with advice from health authorities. Here, we ask who was most likely to do so during the first wave of the pandemic.

Design

Quota-sampled cross-sectional and panel data from eight Western democracies (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States).

Methods

We fielded online public opinion surveys to 26,508 citizens between 19 March and 16 May. The surveys included questions about protective behaviour, perceptions of the pandemic (threat and self-efficacy), as well as broader attitudes towards society (institutional and interpersonal trust). We employ multilevel and fixed-effects regression models to analyse the relationship between these var

SUBMITTER: Jorgensen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8250211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature