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Baeza-Rivera, Maria Jose

Salazar-Fernandez, Camila

Salinas-Onate, Natalia

Manriquez-Robles, Diego

Should we take care of each other? Enhancing COVID-19 protective behaviors, a study in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY

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The literature has suggested that social norms and perceptions of risk and severity are critical variables in predicting protective health behaviors. Using an integrative conceptual framework, this study evaluates educational level, socioeconomic status, injunctive pro-care norms, perception of risk, and severity of COVID-19 as predictors of hygiene behaviors, mask use, and physical distancing. Participants included 2,075 adults from Chile, Mexico, and Colombia, three countries with the worst pandemic management. A structural equation model including the hypothesized structure of relations among the study variables fitted the data well and was invariant among Chilean, Mexican, and Colombian data. As proposed, injunctive pro-care norms against COVID-19 predicted protective health behaviors directly and indirectly through the perception of the risk and severity of COVID-19, and educational level predicted pro-care norms against COVID-19. These findings are essential in light of the development of prevention campaigns and the promotion of COVID-19 care strategies.

2023

artículo original

10.1177/18344909231181763

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protective behaviors

coronavirus

compliance

risk perception

severity perception

social norms

Psicología

conductas protectoras

coronavirus

cumplimiento

percepción del riesgo

percepción de gravedad

normas sociales

artículo original

versión publicada

CC BY-ND 4.0

CC BY-ND 4.0

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WOS:001009844900001

1834-4909

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Psicología