Department of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy, 50134.
Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1090.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Mar 28;120(13):e2214382120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2214382120. Epub 2023 Mar 20.
The family plays a central role in shaping health behaviors of its members through social control and support mechanisms. We investigate whether and to what extent close kin (i.e., partner and children) matter for older people in taking on precautionary behaviors (e.g., wearing a mask) and vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Drawing on data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we combine its Corona Surveys (June to September 2020 and June to August 2021) with pre-COVID information (October 2019 to March 2020). We find that having close kin (especially a partner) is associated with a higher probability of both adopting precautionary behaviors and accepting a COVID-19 vaccine. Results are robust to controlling for other potential drivers of precautionary behaviors and vaccine acceptance and to accounting for coresidence with kin. Our findings suggest that policymakers and practitioners may differently address kinless individuals when promoting public policy measures.
家庭通过社会控制和支持机制在塑造其成员的健康行为方面发挥着核心作用。我们调查了在欧洲 COVID-19 大流行期间，近亲（即伴侣和子女）对老年人采取预防措施（例如戴口罩）和接种疫苗的影响，以及这种影响的程度。本研究利用欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）的数据，将其新冠调查（2020 年 6 月至 9 月和 2021 年 6 月至 8 月）与 COVID-19 之前的信息（2019 年 10 月至 2020 年 3 月）相结合。我们发现，有近亲（尤其是伴侣）与采取预防措施和接受 COVID-19 疫苗的可能性更高有关。结果在控制其他预防措施和疫苗接种的潜在驱动因素以及考虑与亲属同住的情况下仍然稳健。我们的研究结果表明，当推广公共政策措施时，政策制定者和实践者可能会对无亲属的个体采取不同的方法。
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