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Assessing the Relationships Between Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour of People During COVID-19 Lockdown in Great Britain: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Survey
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: Received: 21 July 2024 / Approved: 23 July 2024 / Online: 24 July 2024 (11:22:07 CEST)
How to cite:
Khanal, S.; Schmidtke, K. A.; Haralampiev, K.; Vlaev, I. Assessing the Relationships Between Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour of People During COVID-19 Lockdown in Great Britain: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Survey. Preprints2024, 2024071877. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1877.v1
Khanal, S.; Schmidtke, K. A.; Haralampiev, K.; Vlaev, I. Assessing the Relationships Between Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour of People During COVID-19 Lockdown in Great Britain: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Survey. Preprints 2024, 2024071877. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1877.v1
Khanal, S.; Schmidtke, K. A.; Haralampiev, K.; Vlaev, I. Assessing the Relationships Between Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour of People During COVID-19 Lockdown in Great Britain: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Survey. Preprints2024, 2024071877. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1877.v1
APA Style
Khanal, S., Schmidtke, K. A., Haralampiev, K., & Vlaev, I. (2024). Assessing the Relationships Between Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour of People During COVID-19 Lockdown in Great Britain: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Survey. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1877.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Khanal, S., Kaloyan Haralampiev and Ivo Vlaev. 2024 "Assessing the Relationships Between Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour of People During COVID-19 Lockdown in Great Britain: A Retrospective Analysis of a National Survey" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1877.v1
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “behavioural fatigue” became the centre of policy debates in Great Britain. These debates involved deciding when to go into lockdown and whether behavioural interventions could be effective. Behavioural interventions can only succeed where people’s capabilities, opportunities, and motivations to perform target behaviours are supported. Our retrospective data analyses examine the relationships between people’s capabilities, opportunities, motivations, and behaviours, i.e., adherence to lockdown guidelines. Our cross-sectional analyses include 17,962 unique participants in Great Britain who completed a survey over the initial 30 days of the first lockdown (April 2020). We examine trends in responses to each scale and then the relationships between the scales using Granger’s causality test with tests for stationarity and cointegration. A mixture of increasing and decreasing trends were identified for capabilities and opportunities. Decreasing trends were identified for motivation and behaviour. Granger’s causality tests found that capability forecasts opportunity and behaviour and that motivation forecasts opportunity. The discussion reiterates that to realize and maintain behaviour changes, policies surrounding people's capabilities, opportunities, and motivations must continue to support target behaviours.
Keywords
behaviour; COVID-19; nudge system thinking; retrospective; United Kingdom
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Health Policy and Services
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