Being a Good Citizen in Pandemics

Background: These two studies aim to investigate the effects of pandemics and self-construal primes (i.e., collectivist/individualist) on two pandemic behaviours, namely compliance to social distancing measures and prosociality while controlling for health anxiety. Study 1 (n = 207) examined the effect of pandemic salience and self-construal on compliance to social distancing measures. Study 2 (n = 203) examined the effects of pandemic salience and self-construal on prosociality, as measured by the Prosocial Behavioural Intentions Scale and Prosociality Scale. This data record contains: Two x SPSS (.sav) files containing input data and calculation of compliance to social distancing measures (Study1) and prosociality (Study 2) respectively. Files also available in Open Document (.ods) format. --//-- Software/equipment used to collect the data: Qualtrics Software/equipment used to analyse the data: SPSS