Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID-19: Evidence across countries and over time

PsyCorona Collaboration

doi:10.1111/spc3.12909

Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID-19: Evidence across countries and over time

PsyCorona Collaboration

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Abstract

Virus mitigation behavior has been and still is a powerful means to fight the COVID-19 pandemic irrespective of the availability of pharmaceutical means (e.g., vaccines). We drew on health behavior theories to predict health-protective (coping-specific) responses and hope (coping non-specific response) from health-related cognitions (vulnerability, severity, self-assessed knowledge, efficacy). In an extension of this model, we proposed orientation to internal (problem-focused coping) and external (country capability) coping resources as antecedents of health protection and hope; health-related cognitions were assumed as mediators of this link. We tested these predictions in a large multi-national multi-wave study with a cross-sectional panel at T1 (Baseline, March-April 2020; N = 57,631 in 113 countries) and a panel subsample at two later time points, T2 (November 2020; N = 3097) and T3 (April 2021; N = 2628). Multilevel models showed that health-related cognitions predicted health-protective responses and hope. Problem-focused coping was mainly linked to health-protective behaviors (T1-T3), whereas country capability was mainly linked to hope (T1-T3). These relationships were partially mediated by health-related cognitions. We conceptually replicated predictions of health behavior theories within a real health threat, further suggesting how different coping resources are associated with qualitatively distinct outcomes. Both patterns were consistent across countries and time.

Original language	English
Article number	e12909
Number of pages	16
Journal	Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Volume	18
Issue number	2
Early online date	14 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12909
Publication status	Published - Feb 2024
Externally published	Yes

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© 2023 The Authors. Social and Personality Psychology Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Funding

This research received financial support from the New York University Abu Dhabi (VCDSF/75–71015) to Jocelyn J. Bélanger, the University of Groningen (Sustainable Society and Ubbo Emmius Fund) to N. Pontus Leander, and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (COV20/00086) to Manuel Moyano, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, and N. Pontus Leander. The publication of the article in OA mode was financially supported by HEAL‐Link. We thank Barbara Wisse for help with the ethics approval procedure of the validation study. Some of the data from this paper have been presented at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Krakow, Poland (July 2023). Data presented in this paper are from the data set of the PsyCorona study ( https://doi.org/10.34894/PX5IVZ ). Data from the PsyCorona study may only be used for scientific research purposes. A list of published reports from the PsyCorona study is provided at the site of the project ( https://www.rug.nl/sustainable‐society/research/previous‐themes/psycorona/psycorona‐pages/ ).

Funders	Funder number
Sustainable Society and Ubbo Emmius Fund
New York University Abu Dhabi	VCDSF/75–71015
New York University Abu Dhabi
Hellenic Academic Libraries Link
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Instituto de Salud Carlos III	COV20/00086
Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Keywords

coping
country capability
COVID-19
health behavior theories
hope
problem-focused coping
virus mitigation behavior

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID-19: Evidence across countries and over time

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