Adoption of measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19: in search of a Hofstedian explanation for patterns among individual countries and country clusters

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dc.contributor.authorKamp, Bart
dc.contributor.authorGibaja Martíns, Juan José
dc.contributor.authorSan Martin, Javier
dc.contributor.authorTuriel, Ignacio
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-21T15:33:49Z
dc.date.available2025-05-21T15:33:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.date.updated2025-05-21T15:33:49Z
dc.description.abstractWe consider multiple safety measures in relation to the COVID-19 virus and look at their adoption levels for a variety of 15 individual countries, based on data from Yougov.co.uk. Subsequently, we establish correlation coefficients between measure-specific uptake levels and Hofstede dimension scores for all countries considered. We notably find that Power Distance Index (PDI) and Individualism (IDV) have a considerable explanatory power. In addition, we carried out a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and a cluster analysis to see whether the behavioural patterns across countries can be grouped, and which Hofstede dimensions correlate strongest with the two main components that follow from the PCA. The PCA provides further confirmation of PDI and IDV being the most important explanatory factors for the uptake of measures across countries. The cluster analysis, in turn, reveals four broad groups, which only partly coincide with the way that the mental image clustering scheme by Wursten (2019) allots countries into its respective clusters. Hence, this provides a basis to suggest that data-driven exercises like the ones from our paper can serve to adjust Wursten's intuitive scheme.en
dc.identifier.citationKamp, B., Gibaja, J. J., San Martin, J., & Turiel, I. (2023). Adoption of measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19: in search of a Hofstedian explanation for patterns among individual countries and country clusters. Safety Science, 157. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SSCI.2022.105902
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/J.SSCI.2022.105902
dc.identifier.eissn1879-1042
dc.identifier.issn0925-7535
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2807
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.
dc.rights© 2022 The Authors
dc.subject.otherCOVID-19
dc.subject.otherCulture
dc.subject.otherEconometrics
dc.subject.otherHofstede
dc.subject.otherMental images
dc.subject.otherSafety measures
dc.subject.otherWursten
dc.subject.otherYouGov
dc.titleAdoption of measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19: in search of a Hofstedian explanation for patterns among individual countries and country clustersen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.titleSafety Science
oaire.citation.volume157
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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