Paramita Widya, Rostiani Rokhima, Winahjoe Sari, Wibowo Amin, Virgosita Risa, Audita Handini
Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
LPDP Scholarship Awardee, Ministry of Finance, Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Glob J Flex Syst Manag. 2021;22(Suppl 1):1-18. doi: 10.1007/s40171-021-00261-1. Epub 2021 Mar 4.
The discourse of gender amidst the COVID-19 pandemic had been a big fuss. Amongst the discussions is the gender-related responses to COVID-19 that generally assume females to better respond to COVID-19 than males. Despite the converging assumptions, previous studies tend to conceptualize gender as binary biological sex, and consequently, there is little understanding of the gender-COVID-19 measures compliance relationship. By taking gender as a multidimensional perspective, this research aims to examine the relationship between sex, gender psychology, and gender-role with voluntary compliance to COVID-19 measures as well as the moderating role of situational aspects that can activate individuals' responses toward COVID-19. A survey had been conducted in Indonesia, as Indonesia represents a country with relaxed COVID-19 restrictions making voluntary compliance is deemed important. Consistent with our predictions and previous studies, females tend to better comply with COVID-19 when gender is treated as dichotomous sex. However, a closer look at the gender dimensions revealed that gender psychology (feminine vs masculine) and gender-role (traditional vs egalitarian) provide a better explanation of the specific compliance behaviour toward COVID-19 measures. Interestingly, although situational pathogen avoidance (SPA) directly leads to adherence to several compliance behaviours, it does not moderate the four compliance behaviour of COVID-19 measures. Theoretical and practical contributions are further discussed.
在新冠疫情期间，关于性别的讨论闹得沸沸扬扬。其中的讨论内容包括与性别相关的对新冠疫情的应对措施，这些措施通常认为女性比男性对新冠疫情的应对能力更强。尽管存在这些趋同的假设，但以往的研究往往将性别概念化为二元生物性别，因此，对于性别与新冠疫情防控措施依从性之间的关系了解甚少。本研究从多维视角看待性别，旨在探讨性别、性别心理和性别角色与对新冠疫情防控措施的自愿依从性之间的关系，以及情境因素在激发个体对新冠疫情反应方面的调节作用。研究在印度尼西亚进行了一项调查，因为印度尼西亚是一个新冠疫情限制措施较为宽松的国家，所以自愿依从性被认为很重要。与我们的预测和以往研究一致，当将性别视为二分性别的时候，女性往往更能遵守新冠疫情防控措施。然而，对性别维度的进一步研究表明，性别心理（女性化与男性化）和性别角色（传统与平等主义）能更好地解释对新冠疫情防控措施的具体依从行为。有趣的是，尽管情境性病原体回避（SPA）直接导致对几种依从行为的坚持，但它并未调节新冠疫情防控措施的四种依从行为。本文还进一步讨论了理论和实践贡献。
