Table 6 Multiple linear regression for demographic, predisposing, pre-motivational, motivational factors predicting social distancing behaviour
Model 1: Sociodemographic | Model 2: Socio-demographic, predisposing, and pre-motivational | Model 3: Socio-demographic, predisposing, pre-motivational and motivational | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standardized Coefficients | p | Standardized Coefficients | p | Unstandardized Coefficients | Standardized Coefficients | p a | |
Beta | Beta | B (SE) | Beta (95% BCa CI) a | ||||
(Constant) | < 0.001 | < 0.001 | 0.69 (0.4) | 0.189 | |||
Socio-Demographic | |||||||
Gender (Female/Male) | −0.186 | 0.004 | −0.140 | 0.020 | −0.13 (0.05) | −0.14 (− 0.28, − 0.02) | 0.032 |
Age | −0.032 | 0.609 | −0.022 | 0.717 | 0.0 (0.004) | 0.004 (−0.11, 0.12) | 0.941 |
Student Status (UK/International) | −0.040 | 0.533 | −0.017 | 0.771 | −0.02 (0.07) | −0.02 (− 0.15, 0.1) | 0.778 |
Health Course | −0.010 | 0.876 | −0.018 | 0.758 | −0.02 (0.06) | − 0.02 (− 0.12, 0.08) | 0.744 |
Ethnicity (Minorities/White) | − 0.092 | 0.151 | − 0.137 | 0.024 | − 0.08 (0.06) | −0.08 (− 0.19, 0.03) | 0.173 |
Infection exposure | −0.030 | 0.637 | −0.068 | 0.264 | −0.02 (0.05) | − 0.02 (− 0.14, 0.08) | 0.713 |
Predisposing and Pre-motivational factors | |||||||
Trust | 0.335 | < 0.001 | 0.13 (0.04) | 0.22 (0.09, 0.35) | 0.003 | ||
Disease knowledge | 0.061 | 0.309 | 0.03 (0.03) | 0.06 (−0.05, 0.15) | 0.296 | ||
Social distancing effectiveness knowledge | 0.076 | 0.213 | −0.02 (0.04) | −0.03 (− 0.2, 0.13) | 0.728 | ||
Risk perception | 0.037 | 0.546 | 0.01 (0.02) | 0.05 (−0.07, 0.17) | 0.409 | ||
Motivational factors | |||||||
Self-efficacy- infection avoidance | 0.01 (0.01) | 0.05 (−0.08, 0.19) | 0.422 | ||||
Advantages | 0.12 (0.06) | 0.14 (−0.02, 0.28) | 0.073 | ||||
Disadvantages (reversed) | 0.02 (0.03) | 0.03 (−0.09, 0.16) | 0.612 | ||||
Social support | 0.06 (0.04) | 0.1 (−0.03, 0.23) | 0.175 | ||||
Self-efficacy social distancing | 0.16 (0.04) | 0.24 (0.12, 0.35) | 0.001 | ||||