I use a COVID-19 contact-tracing app. Do you? Regulatory focus and the intention to engage with contact-tracing technology

Abstract

Based on regulatory focus theory, it is proposed that there is a relationship between the intention to use COVID-19 contact-tracing apps and goal-directed motivation. Two studies tested this proposal. Study 1 examined the relationship between participants’ chronic regulatory focus and the intention to use contact-tracing apps. Apps usage intention was positively associated with prevention focus. A mediation analysis showed that the relationship between prevention focus and apps usage intention was mediated by privacy and information security concerns. The stronger the prevention focus, the weaker the concerns, thus, the stronger the intention to use contact-tracing apps. Study 2 used priming to have participants adopt either a momentary promotion or prevention focus, after which they were asked about their intention to use contact-tracing apps. A situationally induced regulatory focus influenced the intention to use contact-tracing apps. A moderation analysis showed that age moderated the relationship between regulatory focus and apps usage intention.

Social network analysis of tourism data: A case study of quarantine decisions in COVID-19 pandemic

“…Recently published studies using SNA for COVID-19 pandemic are given in Table 2 . Furthermore, several aspects of COVID-19 disease are analyzed in the literature such as prominent health issues and COVID-related public concerns using social media ( Reveilhac & Blanchard, 2022 ), public opinion and emotions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic ( Mahdikhani, 2022 ), understanding public sentiment related to COVID‐19 outbreak in Singapore ( Ridhwan & Hargreaves, 2021 ), the use of contact-tracing technology for COVID-19 disease ( Ross, 2021 ), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public sector job opening ( Koch et al, 2021 ), and classification of COVID-19 cases ( Chauhan et al, 2021 ). Additionally, Karami et al (2021) used text mining to examine COVID-19 literature.…”

The Factors of E-Government Service Quality in Kuwait During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

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“…Contact tracing mobile apps are used by public health authorities to augment traditional epidemiological interventions, such as by using technology-based data collection (e.g., automated signaling and record-keeping on mobile phone apps) (Boudreaux et al, 2020) to determine the chain of contacts of an infected person to identify them and get them to self-isolate or undergo institutional quarantine. (Ross, 2021) Effective contact tracing allows public health authorities to break the chains of transmission and shift policy to case-based interventions such as selective individual quarantines rather than population-wide interventions such as social distancing. (Kedron & Trgovac, 2021) Notwithstanding the possible breach of privacy, these apps prove to be beneficial in tracking and investigating infected persons and preventing further spread through unknown contact by actively warning healthy individuals and enabling the quarantining of positive individuals.…”