Abstract
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been having people refrain from going out and compelling restaurants to limit their business operations, the “self-restraint vigilantism” that attacks stores and individuals who do not take thorough preventive actions has become a social problem. However, there have not been enough empirical evidence on the factors that induce such attitudes. In this study, using the data set of a survey conducted by the JSCE, we examined how people perceive the risk of the virus, composed psychological scales to measure attitudes such as “support for self-restraint policy”, “effort of personal preventions out of home” and “self-restraint vigilantism”, and exploratively analysed the factors that in-fluence these attitudes based on multiple regression analysis with stepwise variable selection. The results suggest that the risk image may be formed irrespective of the difference of infection rates across regions and that media and the opinions of experts have significant influences on the people's attitudes.
