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

Abakoumkin G. Tseliou E. McCabe K.O. Lemay E.P., Jr. Stroebe W. Agostini M. Bélanger J.J. Gützkow B. Kreienkamp J. Kutlaca M. VanDellen M.R. Abdul Khaiyom J.H. Ahmedi V. Akkas H. Almenara C.A. Atta M. Bagci S.C. Basel S. Berisha Kida E. Bernardo A.B.I. Buttrick N.R. Chobthamkit P. Choi H.-S. Cristea M. Csaba S. Damnjanovic K. Danyliuk I. Di Santo D. Douglas K.M. Enea V. Faller D.G. Fitzsimons G. Gheorghiu A. Gómez Á. Grzymala-Moszczynska J. Hamaidia A. Han Q. Helmy M. Hudiyana J. Jeronimus B.F. Jiang D.-Y. Jovanović V. Kamenov Ž. Kende A. Keng S.-L. Kieu T.T.T. Koc Y. Kovyazina K. Kozytska I. Krause J. Kruglanski A.W. Kurapov A. Lantos N.A. Lesmana C.B.J. Louis W.R. Lueders A. Malik N.I. Martinez A. Mehulić J. Milla M.N. Mohammed I. Molinario E. Moyano M. Muhammad H. Mula S. Muluk H. Myroniuk S. Najafi R. Nisa C.F. Nyúl B. O’Keefe P.A. Olivas Osuna J.J. Osin E.N. Park J. Pica G. Pierro A. Rees J. Reitsema A.M. Resta E. Rullo M. Ryan M.K. Samekin A. Santtila P. Sasin E. Schumpe B.M. Selim H.A. Stanton M.V. Sultana S. Sutton R.M. Utsugi A. van Breen J.A. Van Lissa C.J. Van Veen K. Vázquez A. Wollast R. Yeung V.W.-L. Zand S. Žeželj I.L. Zheng B. Zick A. Zúñiga C. Leander N.P.
February 2024 John Wiley and Sons Inc

Social and Personality Psychology Compass
2024 #18 Issue 2

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.

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

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Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Department of Psychology, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Department of Pedagogy, Pristine University, Pristina
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Faculty of Health Science, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru
Department of Psychology, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
Department of Psychology, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
Department of Social Sciences, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Faculty of Education, Pristine University, Pristina, Kosovo
Department of Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Department of Psychology, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jongno-gu, South Korea
Department of Psychology, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Doctoral School of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade, Beograd, Serbia
Department of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
Department of Political Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Department of Psychology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Marketing and Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Center for European Studies, Faculty of Law, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Social and Organizational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Psychology/ Research Unit Human Resources Development, Setif 2 University, Setif, Algeria
The School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Psychology Department, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt
Department of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
Department of Psychology, National Chung-Cheng University, Minxiong, Taiwan
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Department of Social Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Psychology, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
Department of Psychology, HCMC University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Independent Researcher, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Psychiatry, Udayana University, Bukit Jimbaran, Indonesia
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia
Department of Communication, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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Mass Communication, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Sokoto, Nigeria
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Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
Department of Psychology, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
Dipartimento dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Department of Management, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, United Kingdom
Department of Political Science and Administration, National Distance Education University (UNED), Madrid, Spain
Laboratory LINP2, University of Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Department of Management, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Nagoya, Japan
School of Law, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Department of Social Psychology, Research Institute Social Cohesion, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Social, Political, and Cognitive Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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School of Liberal Arts, M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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Department of Psychology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Department of Methodology & Statistics, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Department of Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Department of Psychology, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Department of Social and Organizational Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Pedagogy
Organizational Behavior
Faculty of Health Science
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
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Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Doctoral School of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Political Sciences
School of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Tropical Marine Science Institute
Marketing and Psychology
Center for European Studies
Social and Organizational Psychology
Institute of Psychology
Psychology/ Research Unit Human Resources Development
The School of Psychological Science
Psychology Department
Psychology Department
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Social Psychology
Psychology
Department of Psychology
Independent Researcher
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychiatry
School of Psychology
Department of Communication
Department of Psychology
Mass Communication
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Dipartimento dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione
Department of General Psychology
Department of Management
Department of Political Science and Administration
Laboratory LINP2
Department of Management
School of Law
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology
Department of Social Psychology
Department of Developmental Psychology
Department of Social
The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership
Faculty of Economics and Business
School of Liberal Arts
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Department of Psychology
Department of Public Health
Graduate School of Humanities
Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Department of Methodology & Statistics
Department of Sociology
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
Department of Psychology
Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre
Department of Psychology
Ageing Epidemiology Research Unit
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG)
Department of Psychology
Wayne State University

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