Psychological perceptions and voluntary protective behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic in China: the roles of cultural worldview

Yuan, Meng

doi:10.1080/10807039.2021.2023316

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“…However, this negative effect of individualism was not supported in other research in China (Yuan, 2022). Fatalism is often excluded from research on infectious disease (Johnson, 2017;Johnson & Mayorga, 2021b;Kahan et al, 2017;Mayorga & Johnson, 2019;Siegrist & Bearth, 2021), but studies of COVID find negative effects of fatalism on risk perceptions, trust, and protective behaviors (Bi et al, 2021;Yuan, 2022).…”

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“…In contrast, individualists perceive lower levels of risk and are less likely to accept or adopt protective measures in many countries because they believe regulation threatens individual freedom (Bazzi et al, 2020;Dryhurst et al, 2020;Johnson, 2017;Johnson & Mayorga, 2021b;Mayorga & Johnson, 2019;Siegrist & Bearth, 2021). However, this negative effect of individualism was not supported in other research in China (Yuan, 2022). Fatalism is often excluded from research on infectious disease (Johnson, 2017;Johnson & Mayorga, 2021b;Kahan et al, 2017;Mayorga & Johnson, 2019;Siegrist & Bearth, 2021), but studies of COVID find negative effects of fatalism on risk perceptions, trust, and protective behaviors (Bi et al, 2021;Yuan, 2022).…”

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Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Yuan

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2022

Review of Policy Research

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Public support for and voluntary compliance with protective policy measures are crucial to mitigating the spread of infectious disease. However, it is unclear why and how people with diverse cultural biases support particular protective policies. Relying on the Cultural Theory (CT) of risk, we hypothesize that value congruence with social distancing and a vaccine mandate during the COVID‐19 pandemic influences the level of public support for and compliance with these protective policies. Analyzing a Chinese nationwide sample, we find that the effects of cultural biases on public support and compliance vary not only with cultural biases but by how these are mediated through value congruence with particular protective policies. As hypothesized, hierarchical cultural biases increase public support for and compliance with social distancing and a vaccine mandates both directly and (indirectly) through value congruence. By contrast, as hypothesized, fatalistic cultural biases decrease public support for and compliance with social distancing both directly and (indirectly) through lack of value congruence and individualistic biases decrease public support for and compliance with social distancing and a vaccine mandate both directly and (indirectly) through lack of value congruence. However, the hypothesized effects of fatalistic biases did not hold for the vaccine mandate. We discuss reasons why these latter hypotheses regarding the vaccine mandate were not validated and suggest that risk analysts and communicators do more to discover and explain why particular protective policies are congruent with diverse cultural values.

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confidence: 99%

Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Yuan

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2022

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“…Even in modern China, Confucianism still permeates the Chinese way of life (W. Qian et al., 2007), and subtly influences the values of its people (Y. J. Chen, Chen, et al., 2019). Meanwhile, other cultural values or subcultural values in Chinese society may also influence individual and organizational behaviors, such as Taoism, individualism, collectivism, hierarchism, and fatalism (Durlabhji, 2004; Tjosvold et al., 2003; Xue et al., 2016; Yuan, 2022).…”

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“…Fatalists perceive low levels of control and tend to disregard risk (Xue et al., 2016). Individualists, who value freedom, pay little attention to risk (Yuan, 2022). Collectivism, harmony, and risk aversion implicated in Confucianism may affect managers’ risk preferences and dampen risk‐taking (K. Ge et al., 2021; Li et al., 2013).…”

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Do Confucian values and working experience matter? The impact of provincial governors’ characteristics on the management level of major road accidents in China

2023

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Upper echelons theory (UET) proposes that organizational outcomes are directly affected by the experiences, personalities, and values of individuals who occupy critical managerial roles within an organization. Using the lens of UET, this study investigates how governors’ characteristics affect the management level of major road accidents (MLMRA). The empirical work is based on fixed effects regression models that are applied to Chinese provincial panel data from 2008 to 2017. This study uncovers that the MLMRA is associated with governors’ tenure, central background, and Confucian values. We further document that the effect of Confucianism on the MLMRA is stronger when traffic regulation pressure is high. This study has the potential to advance our understanding of the impact of leaders’ characteristics on organizational outcomes in the public sector.

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“…Yet, many of the studies that aimed to address this gap harnessed various behavioral models and frameworks that seem to misfit the specific context of health behavior (e.g., W. Liu & Huang, 2021 ; Mizrahi et al, 2022 ; Saechang et al, 2021 ; Sata Shanka & Moges Menebo, 2021 ). Though some of these studies applied health-behavior frameworks in an attempt to explain the political trust-compliance relationship, these investigations either applied these frameworks in a partial manner (e.g., Yuan, 2022 ), did not focus on governmentally issued instructions and guidelines, but rather on general recommendations regarding protective behaviors issued by various non-governmental organizations (e.g., the World Health Organization; Sarwar et al, 2022 ), or confined their examination to trust in a specific branch of the government (e.g., trust in the healthcare system; Bord et al, 2021 ). Furthermore, the relationship between trust in government and compliance with health instructions has recently been challenged altogether with some studies reporting moderate, null and even negative associations between the two concepts (e.g., Clark et al, 2020 ; Goren et al, 2021 , 2022 ; Jones et al, 2021 ; Kim & Tandoc, 2021 ; Pak et al, 2021 ; Parfenova, 2020 ; Radu, 2021 ; Travaglino & Moon, 2021 ).…”

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Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instructions

2022

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Trust in government is considered a prominent factor for enhancing public compliance with government policies and instructions. The Coronavirus pandemic demonstrates the crucial role public compliance with governmentally issued health guidelines has in mitigating the pandemic. However, the mechanism explaining the trust-compliance association, particularly in regard to health-behavior compliance, is unclear. This article develops a new theoretical model, the Mediated Trust Model (MTM), for explaining the relationship between trust in government and public compliance with health instructions. The model extends the classic Health Belief Model for predicting health behavior by claiming that the perceptions regarding the instructions' costs, benefits and one's ability to perform them are affected by trust in government and mediate the trust-compliance association. The MTM was tested in four cross-sectional studies performed during the first 20 months of the Coronavirus pandemic in Israel on 3732 participants, for various health instructions. Implications for public health literature, policy compliance theory and policy makers are discussed.

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Psychological perceptions and voluntary protective behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic in China: the roles of cultural worldview

Cited by 9 publications

References 63 publications

Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Chinese cultural biases, value congruence, and support for and compliance with protective policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Do Confucian values and working experience matter? The impact of provincial governors’ characteristics on the management level of major road accidents in China

Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instructions

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