Publications [#374928] of Gavan J. Fitzsimons

Journal Articles

1. Abakoumkin, G; Tseliou, E; McCabe, KO; Lemay, EP; Stroebe, W; Agostini, M; Bélanger, JJ; Gützkow, B; Kreienkamp, J; Kutlaca, M; VanDellen, MR; Abdul Khaiyom, JH; Ahmedi, V; Akkas, H; Almenara, CA; Atta, M; Bagci, SC; Basel, S; Berisha Kida, E; Bernardo, ABI; Buttrick, NR; Chobthamkit, P; Choi, HS; Cristea, M; Csaba, S; Damnjanovic, K; Danyliuk, I; Di Santo, D; Douglas, KM; Enea, V; Faller, DG; Fitzsimons, G; Gheorghiu, A; Gómez, Á; Grzymala-Moszczynska, J; Hamaidia, A; Han, Q; Helmy, M; Hudiyana, J; Jeronimus, BF; Jiang, DY; Jovanović, V; Kamenov, Ž; Kende, A; Keng, SL; Kieu, TTT; Koc, Y; Kovyazina, K; Kozytska, I; Krause, J; Kruglanski, AW; Kurapov, A; Lantos, NA; Lesmana, CBJ; Louis, WR; Lueders, A; Malik, NI; Martinez, A; Mehulić, J; Milla, MN; Mohammed, I; Molinario, E; Moyano, M; Muhammad, H; Mula, S; Muluk, H; Myroniuk, S; Najafi, R; Nisa, CF; Nyúl, B; O’Keefe, PA; Olivas Osuna, JJ; Osin, EN; Park, J; Pica, G; Pierro, A; Rees, J; Reitsema, AM; Resta, E; Rullo, M; Ryan, MK; Samekin, A; Santtila, P; Sasin, E; Schumpe, BM; Selim, HA; Stanton, MV; Sultana, S; Sutton, RM; Utsugi, A; van Breen, JA; Van Lissa, CJ; Van Veen, K; Vázquez, A; Wollast, R; Yeung, VWL; Zand, S; Žeželj, IL; Zheng, B; Zick, A (2024). Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID-19: Evidence across countries and over time. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2). [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/04/21)

   Abstract:
   Virus mitigation behavior has been and still is a powerful means to fight the COVID-19 pandemic irrespective of the availability of pharmaceutical means (e.g., vaccines). We drew on health behavior theories to predict health-protective (coping-specific) responses and hope (coping non-specific response) from health-related cognitions (vulnerability, severity, self-assessed knowledge, efficacy). In an extension of this model, we proposed orientation to internal (problem-focused coping) and external (country capability) coping resources as antecedents of health protection and hope; health-related cognitions were assumed as mediators of this link. We tested these predictions in a large multi-national multi-wave study with a cross-sectional panel at T1 (Baseline, March-April 2020; N = 57,631 in 113 countries) and a panel subsample at two later time points, T2 (November 2020; N = 3097) and T3 (April 2021; N = 2628). Multilevel models showed that health-related cognitions predicted health-protective responses and hope. Problem-focused coping was mainly linked to health-protective behaviors (T1-T3), whereas country capability was mainly linked to hope (T1-T3). These relationships were partially mediated by health-related cognitions. We conceptually replicated predictions of health behavior theories within a real health threat, further suggesting how different coping resources are associated with qualitatively distinct outcomes. Both patterns were consistent across countries and time.