Handwashing adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study based on protection motivation theory

Szczuka, Zofia; Siwa, Maria; Abraham, Charles; Băban, Adriana; Brooks, Sydney; Cipolletta, Sabrina; Danso, Ebrima; Dombrowski, Stephan U; Gan, Yiqun; Gaspar, Tânia; Matos, Margarida Gaspar de; Griva, Konstadina; Jongenelis, Michelle; Keller, Jan; Knoll, Nina; Ma, Jinjin; Miah, Mohammad Abdul Awal; Morgan, Kàren; Peraud, William; Quintard, Bruno; Shah, Vishna; Schenkel, Konstantin; Scholz, Urte; Schwarzer, Ralf; Tăut, Diana; Tomaino, Silvia Caterina Maria; Vilchinsky, Noa; Wolf, Hodaya; Luszczynska, Aleksandra

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115569

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“…It has been also observed that problem-focused coping [ 75 ], emotion-focused coping [ 12 ], and meaning [ 76 ] are associated with less distress. Moreover, problem- and emotion-focused coping correlated positively with threat appraisal and more post-traumatic growth among university students in their psychological response to COVID-19 [ 77 ]. A positive association of problem-focused coping with threat appraisal and healthy behavior was also obtained by Wu et al [ 64 ].…”

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“…Their research showed that COVID-19-specific protective behaviors, which specifically address the infection risks, were positively connected with perceived threat avoidability of COVID-19, and led to reduced psychic anxiety. In a longitudinal study by Szczuka et al [ 77 ], perceived COVID-19 illness severity (for the higher general anxiety group) at T1 predicted higher perceived illness severity at T3, which led to higher intentional handwashing and handwashing adherence at T3. Our study also demonstrated that meaning-focused coping positively correlated with behaviors that promote well-being.…”

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Threat Appraisal, Resilience, and Health Behaviors in Recovered COVID-19 Patients: The Serial Mediation of Coping and Meaning-Making

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Szczęśniak

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Research indicates that both cognitive appraisal and personal resources can noticeably influence health behaviors, as individuals modify their health convictions and practices on the basis of threat appraisal, personality, and meaning. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether coping strategies and meaning-making can serially mediate the relationship of threat appraisal and resilience with health behaviors in recovered COVID-19 patients. Self-report measures of threat appraisal, resilience, coping, meaning-making, and health behaviors were completed by 266 participants (aged 17 to 78, 51.5% female) who had recovered from COVID-19. The serial mediation analysis showed that the relationship of threat appraisal and resilience with health behaviors was mediated by problem-focused coping, meaning-focused coping, and meaning-making, but not by emotion-focused coping. These results suggest that associations among threat perception, resilience, and health behavior depend to some extent on the interplay of coping and meaning-making, which reveals their unique role in the process of recovery from COVID-19, with potential implications for health interventions.

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Threat Appraisal, Resilience, and Health Behaviors in Recovered COVID-19 Patients: The Serial Mediation of Coping and Meaning-Making

Krok

Telka

Szczęśniak

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“…A lot of the research done during the pandemic found that basic psychological need satisfaction is crucial for well-being, positive emotion, and positive effect and could decrease negative emotions, such as fear, anxiety, anger, and worry (Avsec et al, 2021; Bentzen et al, 2021; Carmignola et al, 2021; Dasinger & Gibson, 2022; Schade et al, 2021; Vermote et al, 2022). Research conducted during SARS (Leung et al, 2005) and COVID-19 (Ben-Ezra et al, 2020; Mertens et al, 2023; Szczuka et al, 2023) positively associated distress with internationally recommended health behaviors.…”

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Need satisfaction and compliance behaviors in two different phases of COVID-19 in China: Multiple mediation of social satisfaction, negative emotions, and risk perception

Zhang,

Wang

2023

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

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For three years, COVID-19 has significantly impacted people's need satisfaction worldwide, resulting in changes in compliance with COVID-19 protocols. This study aimed to examine the change in Chinese people's need satisfaction, compliance behaviors, and their relationship and mechanisms during two periods of the pandemic. Two studies were conducted using data from two rounds of a nationwide serial survey—the Chinese Social Mentality Survey (Study 1: March 2020, 8,717 participants; Study 2: April 2022, 6,118 participants). The relationship between need satisfaction and compliance behaviors was analyzed by constructing a multiple mediations model. The model highlights two relationship pathways: one draws from the health belief model and takes an individual perspective, with negative emotions and risk perception as the mediators; the other utilizes social identity theory and takes a social perspective, with social satisfaction and risk perception as the mediators. The results showed that Chinese people's living needs changed over time, from masks to food and medicine supply, and their development needs satisfaction decreased. However, the participants still displayed high compliance toward recommended behaviors and local policies, despite being less compliant with local policies than recommended individual behaviors. In Studies 1 and 2, respectively, negative emotions had a significant indirect effect on non-recommended behaviors and individual behaviors, but an insignificant indirect effect on recommended behaviors and compliance to local policies. The indirect effects of social satisfaction were significantly stronger and positive on all kinds of behaviors in Study 2, which buffered the negative indirect effects of negative emotions and risk perception. Therefore, using exaggeration to trigger negative emotions may be ineffective in promoting behavioral compliance in China. Improving government performance is crucial, especially when a pandemic has lasted for a long time.

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Meta-analysis on application of Protection Motivation Theory in preventive behaviors against COVID-19

Hedayati,

Damghanian,

Farhadinejad

et al. 2023

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Handwashing adherence during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study based on protection motivation theory

Cited by 5 publications

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Threat Appraisal, Resilience, and Health Behaviors in Recovered COVID-19 Patients: The Serial Mediation of Coping and Meaning-Making

Threat Appraisal, Resilience, and Health Behaviors in Recovered COVID-19 Patients: The Serial Mediation of Coping and Meaning-Making

Need satisfaction and compliance behaviors in two different phases of COVID-19 in China: Multiple mediation of social satisfaction, negative emotions, and risk perception

Meta-analysis on application of Protection Motivation Theory in preventive behaviors against COVID-19

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