Effects of containment and closure policies on controlling the COVID‐19 pandemic in East Asia. Issue 1 (20th February 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Sylvia Xiaohua; Lam, Ben C.P.; Liu, James H.; Choi, Hoon‐Seok; Kashima, Emiko; Bernardo, Allan B.I.
• Is Part Of: Asian journal of social psychology. Volume 24:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 42
• Page End: 47
• Publication Date: 2021-02-20
• Subjects: civic responsibility -- containment and closure policies -- COVID‐19 -- multidisciplinary perspective -- vigilance; Social psychology -- Periodicals; Social psychology -- Asia -- Periodicals; 302.095
• DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12459
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1367-2223

Abstract

Abstract : Growing efforts have been made to pool coronavirus data and control measures from countries and regions to compare the effectiveness of government policies. We examine whether these strategies can explain East Asia's effective control of the COVID‐19 pandemic based on time‐series data with cross‐correlations between the Stringency Index and number of confirmed cases during the early period of outbreaks. We suggest that multidisciplinary empirical research in healthcare and social sciences, personality, and social psychology is needed for a clear understanding of how cultural values, social norms, and individual predispositions interact with policy to affect life‐saving behavioural changes in different societies.