The politics of mask-wearing: Political preferences, reactance, and conflict aversion during COVID

DG Young, H Rasheed, A Bleakley… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current project examines how psychological reactance and conflict orientation relate to
the highly politicized debate over mask-wearing in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic …

COVID‐19 retreats and world recovers: A silver lining in the dark cloud

AC Bisen, S Agrawal, SN Sanap… - Health Care …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The coronavirus disease (COVID‐19), which the World Health Organization
classified as the Sixth Public Health Emergency Of International Concern (PHEIC) on …

Individual costs and community benefits: Collectivism and individuals' compliance with public health interventions

S Leong, K Eom, K Ishii, MC Aichberger, K Fetz… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Differences in national responses to COVID-19 have been associated with the cultural value
of collectivism. The present research builds on these findings by examining the relationship …

Masks during pandemics caused by respiratory pathogens—evidence and implications for action

S Cash-Goldwasser, AL Reingold, SP Luby… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance As demonstrated by the influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2, viruses spread by the
respiratory route can cause deadly pandemics, and face masks can reduce the spread of …

Impact of assortative mixing by mask-wearing on the propagation of epidemics in networks

H Watanabe, T Hasegawa - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we discuss the impacts of assortative mixing by mask-wearing on the
effectiveness of mask use in suppressing the propagation of epidemics. We employ the …

Make no apologies: fear of negative evaluation, depressive symptoms, and the mediating role of accounting for COVID-safe behavior amongst people at high-risk for …

JS Seiter, T Curran, RE Elwood - Health communication, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With the goal of understanding unique and important threats to the mental health of people
who are especially vulnerable to severe illness as a result of COVID-19, this study …

Motivation, intention and opportunity: wearing Masks and the spread of COVID-19

G Kaine, V Wright - COVID, 2023 - mdpi.com
Prior to the emergence of the Omicron variant, we found large regional differences (ƞ2=
0.19) in the frequency of wearing face masks in New Zealand even though the strength of …

Epidemic modelling suggests that in specific circumstances masks may become more effective when fewer contacts wear them

P Klimek, K Ledebur, S Thurner - Communications Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Background The effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to control the spread of
SARS-CoV-2 depends on many contextual factors, including adherence. Conventional …

Frontiers: Unmasking Social Compliance Behavior During the Pandemic

S Zhang, K Xu, K Srinivasan - Marketing Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
In 2020, as the novel coronavirus spread globally, face masks were recommended in public
settings to protect against and slow down viral transmission. People complied to varying …

Hijab or Niqab interacts with Facemasks usage at Healthcare settings in Kabul, Afghanistan: A multi-center observational study

A Nemat, TJ Danishmand, MY Essar, N Raufi, S Ahmad… - Healthcare, 2022 - mdpi.com
Purpose: We aimed to understand the extent of facemask usage resulting from the third
wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in an Afghan context. In Afghanistan, new COVID-19 …