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Welter, Virginia Deborah Elaine ORCID: 0000-0002-1968-5551, Welter, Naemi Georgina Eliane and Grosschedl, Joerg (2021). Experience and Health-Related Behavior in Times of the Corona Crisis in Germany: An Exploratory Psychological Survey Considering the Identification of Compliance-Enhancing Strategies. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 18 (3). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 1660-4601

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Abstract

Despite the need for enduring preventive behavior in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, several counteracting behavioral reactions can be observed worldwide. Considering the grave consequences resulting from such health-related risk behavior, we carried out an online questionnaire study to identify personal characteristics that frame a motivational sketch of those who refuse to follow the pandemic-related preventive measures. Our results from a sample of N = 570 German participants already indicate obvious changes in relevant variables in the four-week investigation period during the pandemic's initial phase (25 March to 22 April 2020). Above all, the willingness to take preventive measures decreased, as did the assessment of the pandemic's severity. The perceived own vulnerability also turned out to be clearly age-dependent and, overall, our sample showed a negative affectivity deviating distinctively from a reference sample. These and other findings allow for identification of sources for public health interventions that can help to increase compliance with required prevention behavior, and thus, counteract COVID-19.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Welter, Virginia Deborah Elaine UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1968-5551 UNSPECIFIED Welter, Naemi Georgina Eliane UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Grosschedl, Joerg UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-561466
DOI:	10.3390/ijerph18030933
Journal or Publication Title:	Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health
Volume:	18
Number:	3
Date:	2021
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	1660-4601
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SHARED DECISION-MAKING; BELIEF MODEL; NEGATIVE AFFECT; BIG-5 INVENTORY; PERSONALITY; ADHERENCE; VERSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION; PANAS Multiple languages Environmental Sciences; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56146