Differential effects of traditional and social media use on COVID-19 preventive behaviors: The mediating role of risk and efficacy perceptions

Ren, Wei; Zhu, Xiaowen; Hu, Yi

doi:10.1177/13591053211003125

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“…In our models, perceived personal agency and perceived severity of COVID-19 were independently associated with avoiding large gatherings. Other studies have had similar findings regarding the connection between perceived severity and adherence to COVID-19 prevention behaviors and vaccine intentions (Luo et al, 2021;Ren et al, 2021;Shmueli, 2021;Yu et al, 2021). While severity of COVID-19 varies by age and comorbidity (Gallo Marin et al, 2021;Sanyaolu et al, 2020), increased exposure to COVID-19 information through traditional and social media may promote greater perceived COVID-19 severity (Li et al, 2020;Ren et al, 2021).…”

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“…Other studies have had similar findings regarding the connection between perceived severity and adherence to COVID-19 prevention behaviors and vaccine intentions (Luo et al, 2021;Ren et al, 2021;Shmueli, 2021;Yu et al, 2021). While severity of COVID-19 varies by age and comorbidity (Gallo Marin et al, 2021;Sanyaolu et al, 2020), increased exposure to COVID-19 information through traditional and social media may promote greater perceived COVID-19 severity (Li et al, 2020;Ren et al, 2021). Improved education and communication about the importance of avoiding larger social gatherings, especially indoors, may also be needed.…”

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Barriers to and Facilitators of COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among North Carolina Residents

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COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020. Prior to the wide dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, individual prevention behaviors, such as wearing face masks, have been the primary non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce infections. We surveyed 404 North Carolina residents recruited through Amazon MTurk in July 2020 to assess adherence to key prevention behaviors (6-foot distancing, mask wearing, and gathering limits) and barriers to and facilitators of adherence. Participants reported past 7-day prevention behaviors and behavioral barriers and facilitators informed by the Integrated Behavior Model and the Health Belief Model (perceived risk, perceived severity, behavioral attitudes, injunctive and descriptive norms, and personal agency). Reported adherence to each behavior in the past 7 days was generally high, with lower adherence to 6-foot distancing and mask wearing in the work context. The most commonly endorsed barriers to 6-foot distancing included physical impediments, forgetting, and unfavorable descriptive norms. For mask wearing, ability to keep a distance, discomfort/inconvenience, and forgetting were most commonly endorsed. In logistic regression models, injunctive social norms followed by perceived personal agency were the strongest independent correlates of 6-foot distancing. Behavioral attitudes and injunctive social norms were independently associated with mask wearing. For gathering size limit adherence, perceived personal agency was the strongest independent predictor followed by perceived severity of COVID-19. Messaging campaigns targeting these barriers and facilitators should be tested. Interventions improving the convenience and salience of physical distancing and mask wearing in high-density public places and places of work may also promote prevention behaviors.

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Barriers to and Facilitators of COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among North Carolina Residents

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“…However, while many of the recent studies record beneficial effects, some researchers found a negative effect of social media in the form of encouraging risky behaviors that translate from online to the offline environment, which is of central importance when the prospect effect of negative emotional spillover is taken into account [31,[60][61][62]. Ren, Zhu, and Hu (2021) found that traditional media improved engagement for preventive actions, while social media proved to have no direct or indirect behavioral correlate [63]. According to Xu (2020), social media, in comparison to conventional outlets, diminishes consumers' crisis responsibility, concluding that the outlet has no varying impact on the response [64].…”

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Impact of Social Media, Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) on the Intention to Stay at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Considering how communities perceive the threat and risks of COVID-19, it is essential to examine how emotional regulation stimulated through intrinsic and extrinsic incentive mechanisms via social media can reinforce ‘Stay at home’ intentions. The conceptual framework was developed using the elements of the Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM). A self-reported questionnaire was used to measure individuals’ intention to stay at home during the pandemic based on the perceived locus of causality as a part of self-determination theory. The empirical research was conducted on a sample of 306 USA respondents. The study results indicate that both components of the EPPM—efficacy and threat—positively affect ‘stay at home’ intentions. Moreover, a positive effect of efficacy on threats was found, as was a moderating effect of threats on the relationship between efficacy and the intention to stay at home. Meanwhile, the influence of social media exposure on threats and behavioral intentions was not significant. People are likely to stay at home as a preventive measure during COVID-19 if there is enough threats and efficacy. However, the abundance of information and opinions in social media can lead to a decreased perceived threat and might disrupt the acceptance of preventive actions.

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“…Intruder finds it an opportunity to attack the social site and violate the end-users privacy by using fake IDs, passwords, data sharing, account hacking, and many more. The most common social site includes: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Tiktok, WhatsApp, and many other [100] According to some previous research [101][102][103] in 2021, mentions some severe types of attacks, fake user id, fake account, confidentiality, privacy breaching, data loss, mental threats, data sharing, hacking, ransomware. As most of the sites are free of cost or subscription-free, we can use it by just having an internet connection [104].…”

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Social Networking Security during COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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During the Covid-19 Pandemic, the usage of social media networks increased exponentially. People engage in education, business, shopping, and other social activities (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube). As social networking expands rapidly, its positive and negative impacts affect human health. All this leads to social crimes and illegal activities like phishing, hacking, ransomware, password attacks, spyware, blackmailing, Middle-man-attack. This research extensively discusses the social networking threats, challenges, online surveys, and future effects. We conduct an online survey using the google forms platform to collect the responses of social networking sites (SNS) users within Pakistan to show how SNS affects health positively and negatively. According to the collected response, we analyzed that 50% of the users use SNS for education purposes, 17.5% use it for shopping purposes, 58.2% use it for entertainment, 37.1% use it for communication, and 9.8% use it for other purposes. According to the response, the excessive use of SNS affects the health that 9.8% users face the physical threat, 42.8% user faces mental health issues due to excessive or inappropriate use of SN, and 50.5% users feel moral threat using Social sites. Finally, we conclude our paper by discussing the open challenges, conclusions, and future directions.

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Differential effects of traditional and social media use on COVID-19 preventive behaviors: The mediating role of risk and efficacy perceptions

Cited by 20 publications

References 43 publications

Barriers to and Facilitators of COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among North Carolina Residents

Barriers to and Facilitators of COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among North Carolina Residents

Impact of Social Media, Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) on the Intention to Stay at Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Networking Security during COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review

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