Disentangling youth non-compliance with Covid-19 restrictions from gender, socioeconomic vulnerability and poor mental health
Lessons from the first wave in Catalonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12600686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Padrosa (0000-0001-6367-4860, ESIMar (Mar Nursing School), Parc de Salut Mar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra-Affiliated, Barcelona, Spain, corresponding author), Mireia Bolíbar (0000-0001-9525-0907, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 786-802 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13676261.2022.2046260 |
| OpenAlex | W4214601547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 50 |
The COVID-19 pandemic focused public attention on youth non-compliance with restrictions, but the social and health factors underpinning this behaviour were overlooked. Hereby, we considered the complex relationships between age (16–29 vs. 30+), non-compliance, socioeconomic vulnerabilities and poor mental health using a gender perspective. Data were derived from the ‘Survey on the impact of COVID-19’, fielded on 11–15 April 2020 in Catalonia. In a non-probabilistic sample of 14,123 individuals, we performed gender-stratified mediation analyses using Structural Equation Models. The results suggest that youth was related to non-compliance among men, but not among women. Nonetheless, young women were more frequently fired than older women, which enhanced their likelihood of non-compliance. Mental health outcomes were poorer among young people but did not relate to youth non-compliance. Finally, adverse socioeconomic situations related to non-compliance and poor mental health, but this was not an idiosyncrasy of young people. Lessons from the first COVID-19 wave suggest that young age intersects with gender and socioeconomic factors in determining non-compliance. This highlights the need to incorporate a gender and socioeconomic inequalities perspective in the design and evaluation of policies that tackle non-compliance among young people. Only by using this holistic approach will we effectively manage future public health crises
Compliance (psychology · Environmental health · Mediation · Mental health · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Public health · Socioeconomic status · Structural equation modeling · Vulnerability (computing · COVID-19 and Mental Health · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |