Trait self-construal, inclusion of others in the self and self-control predict stay-at-home adherence during COVID-19

Tu, Ke; Chen, Shirley Shuo; Mesler, Rhiannon MacDonnell

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110687

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“…The severity of the pandemic’s impact is underscored by recent statistics released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), indicating 175,987,176 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection and 3,811,561 deaths worldwide as of 15 June 2021. The scale of the pandemic has changed people’s daily lives in myriad ways, particularly because lockdowns, which were imposed as preventive measures for controlling the spread of COVID-19, required individuals to perform all personal and professional obligations from the confines of their homes ( Tu et al, 2021 ). As a result of these measures, working from remote locations, teaching and learning online and other relatively novel experiences have become the norm ( Wang et al, 2020 ).…”

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Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach

Talwar¹,

Srivastava

Sakashita

et al. 2022

Journal of Business Research

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The tourism sector has been deeply ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic as many individuals abstained entirely from travel. Thus, before contemplating the trajectory of the sector’s recovery, it is essential to understand individuals’ travel intentions both during and after the pandemic. The present study contributes in this regard by examining the impact of individuals’ personality traits categorised by the five-factor model, or the Big Five, on their leisure travel intentions during and after the pandemic. To this end, we utilised an artificial neural network (ANN) approach to analyse 500 responses from individuals residing in Japan. The results reveal that extraversion has the strongest relative influence on intentions to travel during the pandemic, whereas openness to experience has the strongest influence on travel intentions after the pandemic. This study is the first of its kind to examine the influence of the Big Five personality traits on travel intentions in the context of a pandemic.

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Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach

Talwar¹,

Srivastava

Sakashita

et al. 2022

Journal of Business Research

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“…Farmers who felt close to their veterinarian were more likely to do more to prevent and control BVD in an open herd. This is a novel field of application for the IOS scale and there is only limited research into psychological proximity in human health behavior ( Bobak and Raupach, 2018 ; Tu et al, 2021 ). The IOS scale correlates with both feeling close and behaving close ( Aron et al, 1992 ), which could explain why farmers who had higher psychological proximity to their veterinarian were more likely to do more to prevent and control BVD if they had an open herd, behaviors that tend to align with veterinary advice.…”

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“…People are generally more likely to help those they feel close to or are psychologically proximal to ( Cialdini et al, 1997 ). High psychological proximity is associated with increased uptake of behavior to protect other people's health ( Tu et al, 2021 ) and increased support for others to change their behavior ( Bobak and Raupach, 2018 ). Psychological proximity can be measured using the inclusion of other in self ( IOS ) scale ( Aron et al, 1992 ), where participants select a pair of overlapping circles from a scale of increasingly overlapping circles that best represents how close they feel to a specific “other” in question.…”

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Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea

Prosser

Green

Ferguson

et al. 2022

Journal of Dairy Science

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Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is endemic in the United Kingdom and causes major economic losses. Control is largely voluntary for individual farmers and is likely to be influenced by psychosocial factors, such as altruism, trust, and psychological proximity (feeling close) to relevant "others," such as farmers, veterinarians, the government, and their cows. These psychosocial factors (factors with both psychological and social aspects) are important determinants of how people make decisions related to their own health, many of which have not been studied in the context of infectious disease control by farmers. Farmer psychosocial profiles were investigated using multiple validated measures in an observational survey of 475 UK cattle farmers using the capability, opportunity, motivation-behavior (COM-B) framework. Farmers were clustered by their BVD control practices using latent class analysis. Farmers were split into 5 BVD control behavior classes, which were tested for associations with the psychosocial and COM-B factors using multinomial logistic regression, with doing nothing as the baseline class. Farmers who were controlling disease both for themselves and others were more likely to do something to control BVD (e.g., test, vaccinate). Farmers who did not trust other farmers, had high psychological capability (knowledge and understanding of how to control disease), and had high physical opportunity (time and money to control disease) were more likely to have a closed, separate herd and test. Farmers who did not trust other farmers were also more likely to undertake many prevention strategies with an open herd. Farmers with high automatic motivation (habits and emotions) and reflective motivation (decisions and goals) were more likely to vaccinate and test, alone or in combination with other controls. Farmers with high psychological proximity (feeling of closeness) to their veterinarian were more likely to undertake many prevention strategies in an open herd. Farmers with high psychological proximity to dairy farmers and low psychological proximity to beef farmers were more likely to keep their herd closed and separate and test or vaccinate and test. Farmers who had a lot of trust in other farmers and invested in them, rather than keeping everything for themselves, were more likely to be careful introducing new stock and test. In conclusion, farmer psychosocial factors were associated with strategies for BVD control in UK cattle farmers. Psychological proximity to veterinarians was a novel factor associated with proactive BVD control and was more important than the more extensively investigated trust. These findings highlight the importance of a close veterinarian-farmer relationship and are important for promoting effective BVD control by farmers, which has implications for successful nationwide BVD control and eradication schemes.

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“…For example, Sinclair and Agerström (2021) found that individuals who exercised a higher degree of self-control showed substantially less COVID-19 stress and general mental distress. Recent contributions in the literature have demonstrated that self-control also plays a significant role in promoting health behavior in response to the COVID-19 pandemic ( Kokkoris & Stavrova, 2021 ; Martarelli et al, 2021 ; Tu et al, 2021 ). For example, Wolff et al (2020) found that high trait self-control was associated with adherence to behavioral recommendations by health experts, and it also buffered the negative effect of perceived difficulty of abiding by health and safety guidelines.…”

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Toward controlling of a pandemic: How self-control ability influences willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine

Cao

2022

Personality and Individual Differences

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What influences people's vaccine attitudes and intentions in the combat against the COVID-19 pandemic? Extending beyond health factors, the present research examines whether non-health-specific factors—such as one's self-control ability—influence individual attitudes toward vaccination. Drawing on the social psychology literature, we propose that self-control, which is often associated with adherence to social norms and with engagement in socially desirable behaviors, can lead to more favorable attitudes toward vaccines. Study 1 provided correlational evidence for our theoretical perspective that students scoring high on trait self-control expressed less vaccine hesitancy than students scoring low on self-control. Employing a more representative population, Study 2 examined the relationship with behaviors. It was found that non-student adults with higher self-control strength levels were more likely to accept vaccine appointments opportunities than those with lower self-control strength levels. Using an experimental design, Study 3 found that participants exerting a high level of effort for attentional self-control in the incongruent Stroop task condition showed lower COVID-19 vaccine acceptance than participants in the congruent condition. In sum, our research provides the first experimental evidence that high self-control can have a reliable impact on individual perceptions of vaccination.

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Trait self-construal, inclusion of others in the self and self-control predict stay-at-home adherence during COVID-19

Cited by 23 publications

References 36 publications

Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach

Personality and travel intentions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: An artificial neural network (ANN) approach

Cattle farmer psychosocial profiles and their association with control strategies for bovine viral diarrhea

Toward controlling of a pandemic: How self-control ability influences willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine

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