Despite the need for enduring preventive behavior in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, several counteracting behavioral reactions can be observed worldwide. Considering the grave consequences resulting from such health-related risk behavior, we carried out an online questionnaire study to identify personal characteristics that frame a motivational sketch of those who refuse to follow the pandemic-related preventive measures. Our results from a sample of N = 570 German participants already indicate obvious changes in relevant variables in the four-week investigation period during the pandemic’s initial phase (25th March to 22nd April 2020). Above all, the willingness to take preventive measures decreased, as did the assessment of the pandemic’s severity. The perceived own vulnerability also turned out to be clearly age-dependent and, overall, our sample showed a negative affectivity deviating distinctively from a reference sample. These and other findings allow for identification of sources for public health interventions that can help to increase compliance with required prevention behavior, and thus, counteract COVID-19.

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德国新冠危机时期的经历和健康相关行为：考虑确定增强依从性策略的探索性心理调查


尽管在 COVID-19 大流行期间需要采取持久的预防行为，但在世界范围内仍可以观察到一些相反的行为反应。考虑到这种与健康相关的危险行为所造成的严重后果，我们进行了一项在线问卷调查，以识别个人特征，从而勾勒出那些拒绝遵守与大流行相关的预防措施的人的动机。我们对N = 570 名德国参与者的样本结果已经表明，在大流行初期（2020 年 3 月 25 日至 4 月 22 日）的为期 4 周的调查期内，相关变量发生了明显变化。最重要的是，采取预防措施的意愿下降，对疫情严重程度的评估也下降了。感知到的自身脆弱性也明显与年龄有关，总体而言，我们的样本表现出与参考样本明显不同的负面情感。这些和其他发现有助于确定公共卫生干预措施的来源，从而有助于提高对所需预防行为的遵守程度，从而对抗 COVID-19。