Preventive Behavioral Insights for Emerging Adults: A Survey during the COVID-19 Pandemicopen access
- Authors
- Park, Sunhee; Kim, Beomsoo; Kim, Kyoung A.
- Issue Date
- Mar-2021
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- preventive behavior; emerging adulthood; COVID-19; infodemic; subjective norm
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, v.18, no.5, pp.1 - 10
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
- Volume
- 18
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 10
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/84705
- DOI
- 10.3390/ijerph18052569
- ISSN
- 1661-7827
- Abstract
- Emerging adulthood is an important period for establishing health behavior patterns in life. This study aimed to examine factors related to preventive behaviors of emerging adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. A descriptive online survey design was used. Data were collected using a self-administrated, 28-item questionnaire completed by 239 undergraduate students from a university in Seoul, South Korea. The questionnaire was developed based on previous studies and the guidelines of the World Health Organization about COVID-19 preventive behaviors. The mean age of participants was 21.97 years, and the average score for COVID-19 preventive behaviors was 4.13 (SD: +/- 0.42) on a 5-point scale. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that subjective norms related to parents (beta = 0.425, p < 0.001), issue involvement related to COVID-19 (beta = 0.160, p = 0.024), and sex (beta = 0.137, p = 0.029) were significant factors related to preventive behaviors of emerging adults after controlling for demographic characteristics. The variables explained 20.1% of the variance in preventive behaviors. The results of this study suggest that better strategies for subjective norms related to parents and issue involvement related to COVID-19 must be considered to improve emerging adults' preventive behaviors.
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