Determinants of Attitudinal Compliance During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The paper presents the results of a survey administered to 1640 respondents from Romania and the Republic of Moldova in which a number of determinants have been taken into consideration like gender, age, education and COVID-19 exposure, verifying their association with attitudinal compliance. This notion has been conceptualized as agreement to prevention measures and willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The results show a poor association with gender, but a more noticeable one with age and education. Direct exposure to the virus (personal contamination or loss of family member) did not seem to associate with higher levels of attitudinal compliance. Key words: COVID-19, prot

Fear during the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…In the end, the nonprobabilistic sample that answered was 1640 respondents. The structure of the sample has been extensively presented in our previous works (Pascaru, 2021a;Pascaru, 2021b;Pascaru, 2021c). As in other online research, the sample was marked by the higher share of women (60.6%) and those with higher education (65.2%).…”

“…In our paper we intend to present a series of results of more extensive research we undertook at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 (Pascaru, 2021a, Pascaru, 2021b, Pascaru 2021c during the second wave of the pandemic in which a peak was reached at over 10000 infections a day at a Romanian population of approximately 19 million inhabitants. The presentation of the results will follow two directions of analysis.…”

Predicting Compliance with Sanitary Behaviors among Students in Higher Education During the Second COVID-19 Wave: The Role of Health Anxiety and Risk Perception

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, higher risk perception related to the coronavirus has been associated with higher compliance with sanitary behaviors in different countries, such as China, United Kingdom or United-States (Bowman et al, 2021;de Bruin & Bennett, 2020). Conversely, individuals who had been infected with COVID-19 seem to be less likely to follow the recommended behaviors (Pascaru, 2021), probably because they feel less at risk of future infection.…”