Effects of health-related dispositions on citizens’ appraisals toward the COVID-19 pandemic and protective behavior

Xinyuan Fu, Ruoran Fu, Shuxian Li, Xiaona Du, Mei Zhang, Jiaxin Duan, Hanmin Wang and Guixin Li

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: In this study, health risk attitude and health locus of control were included as dispositional factors in the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to explain people’s protective behavior in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical data involved two waves of data with a sample of 526 adults with full-time jobs from Beijing, China, and structural equation model results confirmed a partial successful extension of the PMT. Specifically, health risk attitude had a direct effect on citizens’ protective behavior, but without an indirect effect mediated by threat appraisal toward the COVID-19 pandemic; health locus of control did not directly associate with citizens’ protective behavior, but had an indirect effect on it fully via coping appraisal toward the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the PMT has been extended by adding a distal dispositional factor on the impact of coping appraisal on protective behavior. Implications for advancing the government’s anti-epidemic strategy are discussed.

Date: 2024
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