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Social Norms and Preventive Behaviors in Japan and Germany During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Schmidt-Petri, Christoph 1; Schröder, Carsten ; Okubo, Toshihiro ; Graeber, Daniel; Rieger, Thomas
1 Fakultät für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften – Institut für Philosophie (PHIL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Background: According to a recent paper by Gelfand et al., COVID-19 infection and case mortality rates are closely connected to the strength of social norms: “Tighter” cultures that abide by strict social norms are more successful in combating the pandemic than “looser” cultures that are more permissive. However, countries with similar levels of cultural tightness exhibit big differences in mortality rates. We are investigating potential explanations for this fact. Using data from Germany and Japan—two “tight” countries with very different infection and mortality rates—we examined how differences in socio-demographic and other determinants explain differences in individual preventive attitudes and behaviors.

Methods: We compared preventive attitudes and behaviors in 2020 based on real-time representative survey data and used logit regression models to study how individual attitudes and behaviors are shaped by four sets of covariates: individual socio-demographics, health, personality, and regional-level controls. Employing Blinder-Oaxaca regression techniques, we quantified the extent to which differences in averages of the covariates between Japan and Germany explain the differences in the observed preventive attitudes and behaviors.
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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000145920
Veröffentlicht am 11.05.2022
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DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.842177
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Publikationsjahr 2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2296-2565
KITopen-ID: 1000145920
Erschienen in Frontiers in Public Health
Verlag Frontiers Media SA
Band 10
Seiten Art.-Nr.: 842177
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