{
  "creator": [
    "Kukowski, Charlotte",
    "Bernecker, Katharina",
    "Brandstätter, Veronika"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2021-03-30"
  ],
  "description": [
    "In the current pandemic, both self-regulated health-protective behavior and government-imposed regulations are needed for successful outbreak mitigation. Going forward, researchers and decision-makers must therefore understand the factors contributing to individuals’ engagement in health-protective behavior, and their support for government regulations. Integrating knowledge from the literatures on self-control and cooperation, we explore an informed selection of potential predictors of individuals’ health-protective behaviors as well as their support for government regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aiming for a conceptual replication in two European countries, we collected data in Switzerland (N = 352) and the UK before (N = 212) and during lockdown (n = 132) and conducted supervised machine learning for variable selection, followed by OLS regression, cross-sectionally and, in the UK sample, across time. Results showed that personal importance of outbreak mitigation and beliefs surrounding others’ cooperation are associated with both health-protective behavior and support for government regulations. Further, Swiss participants high in trait self-control engaged in health-protective behavior more often. Interestingly, perceived risk, age, and political orientation consistently displayed nonsignificant weak to zero associations with both health-protective behavior and support. Together, these findings highlight the contribution of self-control theories in explaining COVID-19-relevant outcomes, and underscore the importance of contextualizing self-control within the cooperative social context."
  ],
  "format": [
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  "identifier": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/4391",
    "10.32872/spb.4391"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/4391/4391.pdf",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/4391/4391.html",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/4391/4391.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2021 Charlotte Kukowski, Katharina Bernecker, Veronika Brandstätter",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Social Psychological Bulletin; Vol. 16 No. 1 (2021); 1-28",
    "2569-653X",
    "10.32872/spb.v16i1"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "COVID-19",
    "self-control",
    "cooperation",
    "health-protective behavior",
    "policy support",
    "machine learning",
    "elastic net"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Self-Control and Beliefs Surrounding Others’ Cooperation Predict Own Health-Protective Behaviors and Support for COVID-19 Government Regulations: Evidence From Two European Countries"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}