Open AccessDETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDINAL COMPLIANCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Author(s) -
Mihai Pascaru
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series vii, social sciences and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-771X
pISSN - 2066-7701
DOI - 10.31926/but.ssl.2021.14.63.1.8
Subject(s) - pandemic , compliance (psychology) , covid-19 , association (psychology) , psychology , family member , social psychology , demography , medicine , sociology , family medicine , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , psychotherapist
The paper presents the results of a survey administered to 1640 respondents from Romania and the Republic of Moldova in which a number of determinants have been taken into consideration like gender, age, education and COVID-19 exposure, verifying their association with attitudinal compliance. This notion has been conceptualized as agreement to prevention measures and willingness to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The results show a poor association with gender, but a more noticeable one with age and education. Direct exposure to the virus (personal contamination or loss of family member) did not seem to associate with higher levels of attitudinal compliance. Key words: COVID-19, prot