COmpliance with pandemic COmmands Scale (COCOS): The relationship between compliance with COVID-19 measures and sociodemographic and attitudinal variables

Abstract

Several studies in different countries have reported that part of the population does not fully comply with the measures recommended to prevent COVID-19, and therefore poses a risk to public health. For this reason, several measures have been developed to assess the level of compliance, although many of them have methodological limitations or do not include a comprehensive set of items. The main goal of the current study was to develop a new instrument with suitable psychometric properties, which includes a more complete set of items and controls the impact of acquiescence bias. The participants were 1410 individuals (59.2% women) from Spain, who answered the new questionnaire and several items on sociodemographic and attitudinal issues. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were carried out, and the results suggested that only one content factor was underlying the data. This solution was replicated in a different subsample, which shows the stability of the solution. Furthermore, the relationships between the scores of the new questionnaire and the sociodemographic and attitudinal variables are similar to those obtained in previous studies, which can be regarded as evidence of the validity of the new questionnaire.

Popular epistemically unwarranted beliefs inventory (PEUBI): A psychometric instrument for assessing paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy beliefs

“…Following previous research (e.g., see Morales-Vives et al, 2022), if sociodemographic differences in the level of the studied construct replicate the results obtained in the preexisting literature, it can be interpreted as an additional evidence of the validity of the psychometric instrument. Regarding sex, we expected women to believe more in paranormal and pseudoscience (e.g., Fasce et al, 2021;French & Stone, 2014;Majima, 2015), with the exception of beliefs related to extraordinary life forms and alien-related phenomena (French & Stone, 2014), where men are expected to believe more.…”

Effects of hydrometeorological and other factors on SARS-CoV-2 reproduction number in three contiguous countries of Tropical Andean South America: a spatiotemporally disaggregated time series analysis

“…Compliance with NPI mandates and recommendations differ between subnational populations leading to variation in transmission risk. 51,52 As a proxy indicator for compliance with social distancing, lockdown measures and travel restrictions, population mobility metrics were sourced from Google's Community Mobility Reports. 53 These indicators track trends in Android smartphone users' movements over time relative to a pre-pandemic baseline, by subnational region and for six categories of location.…”

An empirical study on Personal Factors of Employee Engagement in BPO Industry

“…Following all the indicators of Personal factors: Indicator 1: Employees Take Responsibilities or Often Blame Others Blaming the employees restricts organizational learning of employees (Vince & Saleem, 2004;Busby, 2006;Provera et al, 2010;Chughtai, 2013). Morales-Vives et al, (2022) also investigated the employee's work-related and psychosocial factors of employees. When employees are free from the allegations, they engage with others and enable organization to improve their operations (Provera et al 2010).…”