How fear and collectivism influence public's preventive intention towards COVID-19 infection: a study based on big data from the social media

BMC Public Health
Feng HuangTingshao Zhu

Abstract

Despite worldwide calls for precautionary measures to combat COVID-19, the public's preventive intention still varies significantly among different regions. Exploring the influencing factors of the public's preventive intention is very important to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Previous studies have found that fear can effectively improve the public's preventive intention, but they ignore the impact of differences in cultural values. The present study examines the combined effect of fear and collectivism on the public's preventive intention towards COVID-19 through the analysis of social media big data. The Sina microblog posts of 108,914 active users from Chinese mainland 31 provinces were downloaded. The data was retrieved from January 11 to February 21, 2020. Afterwards, we conducted a province-level analysis of the contents of downloaded posts. Three lexicons were applied to automatically recognise the scores of fear, collectivism, and preventive intention of 31 provinces. After that, a multiple regression model was established to examine the combined effect of fear and collectivism on the public's preventive intention towards COVID-19. The simple slope test and the Johnson-Neyman technique were used to test the interacti...Continue Reading

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Feb 4, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·He LiTingshao Zhu
Apr 4, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Jingjing WangBuxin Han
Apr 7, 2021·Asian Journal of Social Psychology·Dolores Albarracin, Haesung Jung
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