Antecedents And Consequences Of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Protection Behavior In The Society Of Juveniles In Northern Region

Abstract

This research studied comparative relationship based on the basic conceptual framework from the theory of interactionism with objectives to indicate key predictors and volume of prediction of psychological traits, and situations related to the Behavior of Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection in the society and to examine risk groups and seek protective factors. The samples in this study included 600 juveniles who were randomly selected with multi-stage sampling method. The multiple regression analysis demonstrated that psychological traits, situations and psychological states could be employed to predict the Behavior of Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection in the society in the combined group for 57.50%. The essential predictors in a descending way including good attitude towards the Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection, health literacy, exemplification of Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection from parents, implantation on Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection from educational institutions, internal locus of control for disease protection, love-reasoned child rearing practice and future Orientation and Self-control for Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection, with beta value of .31,.17,.17,.16,.12,.11, .08, respectively. The risk groups were male juveniles and residents in their own home. The present study, result indicates a guideline for protective development to support better Behavior of Coronavirus Disease 2019 protection for government, private and public sectors.