Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Investigation of Turkish People’s Attitudes Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic Quarantine Process

Abstract

Aim: The aim of study is to determine the attitude of the Turkish people (in cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions) and the factors affectingthis attitude during the coronavirus epidemic that has affected the whole world since December 2019.Materials and Methods: The data collected by a scale were modeled with explanatory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)and structural equation modeling (SEM), and the effects of the dimensions and the importance of the effective items in each dimension weredetermined.Results: 61.4% of the participants were male and 65.4% were under the age of 40 years. Individuals’ “questioning their purpose of coming to lifeagain” and “desire of being more sensitive to the events around them than in the past” were found to be significant, respectively. Other resultsobtained from the study are given in the relevant tables and figures.Conclusion: It was determined that the affective dimension had the highest effect on the results of EFA, CFA and SEM analyses, which wereeffective in examining the attitudes of individuals towards an event with these sub-dimensions.