id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-315827-biur1xn4 Zickfeld, Janis H. Correlates of Health-Protective Behavior During the Initial Days of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Norway 2020-10-06 .txt text/plain 12178 591 47 In the current study, we explore what demographic and psychological variables predicted the adoption and engagement in health-protective behavior and how attitudes and self-reported behaviors changed over the course of a period of 15 days during the COVID-19 outbreak in Norway. Sampling 770 US adolescents from the 20th to the 22nd of March, health-protective behavior including physical distancing and hand washing was positively predicted by perceived severity of the outbreak and social responsibility, as well as negatively predicted by self-interest (Oosterhoff, 2020) . In order to classify important variables predicting engagement in health-protective behavior we employed two different strategies: a highly confirmatory theory-driven strategy based on reviews and previous studies on the COVID-19 outbreak, and a highly exploratory data-driven approach using a supervised machine learning procedure combined with split-half validation. ./cache/cord-315827-biur1xn4.txt ./txt/cord-315827-biur1xn4.txt