Does culture matter social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic?
Does culture matter social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104872
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
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影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Toan Luu Duc Huynh
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作者：
Toan Luu Duc Huynh
本文首次研究了文化维度在世界各地实践社会距离中的作用。通过从谷歌2019冠状病毒病社区流动性报告和霍夫斯泰德文化因素中提取58个国家2020年2月16日至3月29日期间的数据，我们发现，“不确定性规避指数”较高的国家预测，在零售和娱乐、杂货店和药房、公园、中转站、工作场所等公共场所聚集的人群比例较低。然而，我们没有发现任何预测因素与居住在其居住地的公民百分比有关系。我们的结果是稳健的加入控制变量作为财富状况，人均GDP。因此，本文建议通过强调不确定性的作用，进行有效的沟通，以遏制COVID-19大流行。
This paper is the first to examine the role of the cultural dimension in practising social distancing across the world. By drawing the data from the Google COVID-19 community mobility reports and the Hofstede cultural factors for 58 countries over the period from 16 February to 29 March 2020, we find that countries with higher 'Uncertainty Avoidance Index' predict the lower proportion of people gathering in public such as retail and recreation, grocery and pharmacy, parks, transit stations, workplaces. However, we do not find any predictive factor in having a relationship with the percentage of citizens staying in their residential areas. Our results are robust by adding the control variable as the wealth status, GDP per capita. Hence, this paper suggests some effective communications to contain the COVID-19 pandemic by emphasizing the role of uncertainties.