Effects of containment and closure policies on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in East Asia

Sylvia Xiaohua Chen; Ben C.P. Lam; James H. Liu; Hoon Seok Choi; Emiko Kashima; Allan B.I. Bernardo

doi:10.1111/ajsp.12459

Effects of containment and closure policies on controlling the COVID-19 pandemic in East Asia

Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, Ben C.P. Lam, James H. Liu, Hoon Seok Choi, Emiko Kashima, Allan B.I. Bernardo

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Abstract

Growing efforts have been made to pool coronavirus data and control measures from countries and regions to compare the effectiveness of government policies. We examine whether these strategies can explain East Asia’s effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic based on time-series data with cross-correlations between the Stringency Index and number of confirmed cases during the early period of outbreaks. We suggest that multidisciplinary empirical research in healthcare and social sciences, personality, and social psychology is needed for a clear understanding of how cultural values, social norms, and individual predispositions interact with policy to affect life-saving behavioural changes in different societies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	42-47
Number of pages	6
Journal	Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12459
Publication status	Published - Mar 2021

Keywords

civic responsibility
containment and closure policies
COVID-19
multidisciplinary perspective
vigilance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Psychology
General Social Sciences

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