War Against COVID-19: How Is National Identification Linked With the Adoption of Disease-Preventive Behaviors in China and the United States?

• Main Authors: CHAN, Hoi-Wing, WANG, Xue, ZUO, Shi-Jiang, CHIU, Connie Pui-Yee, LIU, Li, YIU, Daphne W., HONG, Ying-yi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: COVID-19; pandemic; national identification; national discourse; disease-preventive behavior; disease prevention; social identity approach; Asian Studies; Health Policy; Medicine and Health; Public Health
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7316; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8315/viewcontent/WarAgainstCOVID_19_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Fighting the COVID‐19 pandemic requires large numbers of citizens to adopt disease‐preventive practices. We contend that national identification can mobilize and motivate people to engage in preventive behaviors to protect the collective, which in return would heighten national identification furthe...