Fighting ahead: Adoption of social distancing in COVID-19 outbreak through the lens of theory of planned behavior

Das, Anupam Kumar; Jilani, Munshi Muhammad Abdul Kader; Uddin, Mohammad Shahab; Uddin, Md. Aftab; Ghosh, Ajoy Kumer

doi:10.1080/10911359.2020.1833804

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“…Importantly, these results have been replicated by controlling for age, gender, education, being infected by COVID-19 and relatives being infected, which confirms the robustness of our findings. While other researchers have also found little variations from the original TPB model (e.g., [ 43 ]), the vast majority of studies concluded that the TPB provides a valid theory for understanding the determinants of health behavior and developing behavioral interventions [ 12 ]). In sum, the findings of the present study confirm and support this assumption.…”

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The Theory of Planned Behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of health behaviors between Belgian and French residents

Wollast¹,

Schmitz²,

Bigot³

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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The COVID-19 pandemic presents a global crisis and authorities have encouraged the population to promote preventive health behaviors to slow the spread of the virus. While the literature on psychological factors influencing health behaviors during the COVID-19 is flourishing, there is a lack of cross-national research focusing on multiple health behaviors. The present study overcomes this limitation and affords a validation of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a conceptual framework for explaining the adoption of handwashing and limitation of social contacts, two health behaviors that highly differ in their nature. Specifically, we compare TPB model on these two protective behaviors among people living in Belgium (N = 3744) and France (N = 1060) during the COVID-19 sanitary crisis. Data were collected from March 18 until April 19, 2020, which corresponds to the spring lockdown and the first peak of the pandemic in these countries. Results indicated that more positive attitudes, greater social norms, increased perceived control and higher intentions were related to higher adherence to handwashing and limitation of social contacts, for both Belgian and French residents. Ultimately, we argued that the TPB model tends to manifest similarly across countries in explaining health behaviors, when comparing handwashing and limitation of social contacts among individuals living in different national contexts.

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The Theory of Planned Behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of health behaviors between Belgian and French residents

Wollast¹,

Schmitz²,

Bigot³

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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“…Most countries follow social distancing as the principal strategy to limit the number of new cases (Das et al, 2020;Melo and Soares, 2020). The critical part of social distancing is creating loneliness, disrupting regular activities, limiting freedom of movement, decreasing employment and income, and creating a lack of medical services to treat diseases other than COVID-19 (Kaufman et al, 2020;Ripon et al, 2020;Serafini et al, 2021).…”

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Quality of life in the COVID-19 outbreak: influence of psychological distress, government strategies, social distancing, and emotional recovery

Khan¹,

Kamruzzaman²,

Rahman³

et al. 2021

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Considering the severity of the effects of COVID-19 on psychological health and quality of life, the present study investigates the direct effects of government strategies and social distancing and the moderating effect of emotional recovery on psychological distress and quality of life using the tenets of the theory of attachment and learned helplessness. The snowball sampling technique was used to recruit respondents from Bangladesh who completed a self-administered questionnaire via Google Forms, which provided cross-sectional data. The results revealed that both social distancing and government strategies have significant negative influences on psychological distress. Besides, government strategies have a significant positive influence on social distancing. Although psychological distress has a significant negative influence on quality of life, emotional recovery shows no moderating effect on the relationship between psychological distress and quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study provides insights for regulatory bodies and policymakers for developing effective policy interventions to ensure the well-being of people during this pandemic. Finally, the study highlights the implications for both theory and practice and a few notes for further research.

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“…The substantial correlation between individuals' intentions and their subsequent behavior (Ajzen, 2011 ) allow researchers to measure behavioral intentions rather than actual behavior. TPB has also been used extensively during the COVID‐19 pandemic to understand public's prevention measure compliance intention (A. K. Das et al, 2021 ; Prasetyo et al, 2020 ), panic buying intention (Lehberger et al, 2021 ), and travel intention (Li, Nguyen, et al, 2020 ). Hence, TPB is deemed to be the most suitable theory to explain public's SRI.…”

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Perceived severity, fear of retaliation, and suspect report intention of general public during COVID‐19 pandemic: A moderated moderation analysis

Das¹,

Vipul

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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Management of COVID‐19 largely depends on the reporting of suspected or confirmed positive cases. This study examined public's suspect report intention during COVID‐19 using and extending the theory of planned behavior by adding two incident‐specific variables such as perceived severity of COVID‐19 and fear of retaliation. Direct association of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control with suspect report intention and moderating role of perceived severity of COVID‐19 and fear of retaliation were probed. This study also investigated whether the moderation of perceived severity of COVID‐19 (primary moderator) varies with different level of fear of retaliation (secondary moderator) using moderated moderation analysis. Analyzing data collected from 554 Indian citizens provides evidence that attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control were positively associated with suspect report intention. Perceived severity of COVID‐19 and fear of retaliation negatively moderated such associations. When fear of retaliation was high, high perceived severity of COVID‐19 did not positively moderate the association of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control with suspect report intention. Perceived behavioral control was the most potent facilitator and fear of retaliation was the strongest inhibitor of suspect report intention. Understanding people's suspect report intention can assist in implementing awareness programs to encourage suspect report intention and stop the community spread of COVID‐19.

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Fighting ahead: Adoption of social distancing in COVID-19 outbreak through the lens of theory of planned behavior

Cited by 43 publications

References 63 publications

The Theory of Planned Behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of health behaviors between Belgian and French residents

The Theory of Planned Behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparison of health behaviors between Belgian and French residents

Quality of life in the COVID-19 outbreak: influence of psychological distress, government strategies, social distancing, and emotional recovery

Perceived severity, fear of retaliation, and suspect report intention of general public during COVID‐19 pandemic: A moderated moderation analysis

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