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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Devashish RayORCiD, Raenhha Dhami, Aritra MukherjeeORCiD, Dr Jan Lecouturier, Dr Laura McGowanORCiD, Professor Falko Sniehotta
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© The Author(s) 2024. Regular testing using rapid antigen lateral flow tests (LFTs) was an important prevention strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, falsification of home LFTs was a concern. Using a large quota-representative sample of adults (n = 1295) in England, we conducted a vignette survey consisting of four hypothetical scenarios of LFT falsification behaviours (FBs) to examine whether prosocial personality traits were associated with attitudes towards and intentions for falsifying home LFTs during the pandemic. Results show that higher levels of affective empathy for people vulnerable to COVID-19 and Honesty-Humility from the HEXACO model of Personality are associated with non-acceptability of LFT FBs and intentions to not engage with them. However, affective empathy explained more of the variation compared to the facet-level measures of Honesty-Humility for both attitude and intention. Public health communications aimed at encouraging personal protective behaviours should consider the role of empathy and prosocial messages.
Author(s): Ray D, Dhami R, Mukherjee A, Lecouturier J, McGowan LJ, Vlaev I, Kelly MP, Sniehotta FF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Health Psychology
Year: 2024
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 25/11/2024
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 09/12/2024
ISSN (print): 1359-1053
ISSN (electronic): 1461-7277
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241298034
DOI: 10.1177/13591053241298034
Data Access Statement: The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. Study materials and outputs are available at https://osf.io/dgm7a/. All coding scripts used for data analysis are available at https://osf.io/twdm4 and at https://osf.io/7znfp.Ray et al.
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