Predicting health behaviors across Belgium and France during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic

Schmitz, Mathias;Wollast, Robin;Bigot, Alix;Luminet, Olivier
(2022) Journal of Health Psychology : an interdisciplinary, international journal — Vol. 27, n° 14, p. 3097-3105 (2022)

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(en) The objective of the current research was to investigate how a series of psychological factors may underlie two COVID-19 health behaviors, and how a contextual factor (country of residence) could shape their influence. Cross-sectional results from the first pandemic wave (NBelgium = 4878, NFrance = 1071) showed that handwashing and social contacts limitation are predicted by a unique set of psychological variables that holds across Belgium and France, despite their distinct lockdown-policies strictness. In practice, policy-makers could leverage on these unique predictors and fine-tune their strategies accordingly to promote adherence to each measure while generalizing it across similar nations.
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Schmitz, M., Wollast, R., Bigot, A., & Luminet, O. (2022). Predicting health behaviors across Belgium and France during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Health Psychology : an interdisciplinary, international journal, 27(14), 3097-3105. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053221083819 (Original work published 2022)