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ArticleJournal Of Economic Psychology2022

The prosociality of married people: Evidence from a large multinational sample.

Sylvie Borau, Hélène Couprie, Astrid Hopfensitz

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Article in Journal Of Economic Psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Knowledge and Preventive Practices Toward COVID-19 Among Sex Workers in Chiang Mai, Thailand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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Sylvie BorauToulouse Business School, 20 Bd Lascrosses, 31068 Toulouse, France.
Hélène CouprieLEST-CNRS Aix-Marseille University, 35 Av. Jules Ferry, 13626 Aix-en-Provence, France.
Astrid HopfensitzEMLyon business school and GATE, 23 Av. Guy de Collongue, 69130 Écully, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single people are more likely to die from COVID-19. Here we study whether this higher death rate could be partly explained by differences in compliance with protective health measures against COVID-19 between single and married people, and the drivers of this marital compliance gap. Data collected from 46,450 respondents in 67 countries reveal that married people are more likely to comply with protective measures than single people. This marital gap in compliance is higher for men (approximately 5%) than for women (approximately 2%). These results are robust across a large range of countries and independent of country level differences with respect to culture, values or infection rates. Prosocial characteristics linked to morality and social belonging explain more than 38% of the marital gap, while individual risk perceptions play a minor role. These findings help explain single people's and particularly single men's greater vulnerability to COVID-19, which in turn can be leveraged to improve the effectiveness of international public policy campaigns aimed at promoting protective health measures.

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GenderMarriagePandemicProsocial behaviorProtective health measuresRisk-taking

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PMID35757085
PMCPMC9212567

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