Government interventions, risk perception, and social distancing: Longitudinal meta-survey results in South Korea.

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY

Health Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-29 DOI:10.1037/hea0001549

Bo-Eun Lee, Min-Kyu Kim, Ji-Bum Chung

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Abstract

Objectives: Understanding public protective behaviors during pandemics is crucial for effective epidemic control. This study examines the longitudinal relationships between government intervention, risk perception, and adherence to social distancing policy throughout the pandemic (February 2020-December 2022) in South Korea.

Method: This study utilized a repeated cross-sectional survey conducted 73 times over a 3-year period (February 2020-December 2022). Each survey included 1,000 participants, resulting in a total sample size of 73,000. Meta-analysis and time series analysis were conducted on the entire data set, focusing on the COVID-19 variants of pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron.

Results: Meta-analysis revealed a positive correlation between adherence to social distancing and risk perception, with the strongest effect observed during the Omicron surge. Time series analysis over the entire period found that government social distancing policies had a stronger effect on adherence to social distancing than physical risk or risk perception, highlighting the long-term impact of government interventions on public behavior.

Conclusions: This study quantitatively demonstrates the longitudinal heterogeneity between risk perception and adherence to social distancing and highlights the importance of government interventions, in addition to risk perception, in shaping public behaviors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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政府干预、风险认知和社会距离：韩国纵向元调查结果。

目的：了解大流行期间的公众防护行为对有效控制疫情至关重要。本研究考察了韩国在大流行期间（2020年2月至2022年12月）政府干预、风险认知和遵守社会距离政策之间的纵向关系。方法：本研究在3年期间（2020年2月- 2022年12月）进行了73次重复横断面调查。每次调查有1000名参与者，总样本量为73000人。对整个数据集进行meta分析和时间序列分析，重点关注pre-Delta、Delta和Omicron的COVID-19变体。结果：荟萃分析显示，遵守社会距离与风险感知之间存在正相关，在Omicron激增期间观察到的影响最大。整个时期的时间序列分析发现，与身体风险或风险认知相比，政府的社会距离政策对坚持社会距离的影响更大，这突显了政府干预对公众行为的长期影响。结论：本研究定量地证明了风险感知和遵守社会距离之间的纵向异质性，并强调了除了风险感知之外，政府干预在塑造公众行为方面的重要性。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Health Psychology 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.90

自引率

2.40%

发文量

170

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Health Psychology publishes articles on psychological, biobehavioral, social, and environmental factors in physical health and medical illness, and other issues in health psychology.