The Relation Between the Public Attitude Towards COVID-19 and its Applied Policies – a Dataset for Binational and Temporal Comparison

Abstract

The here presented data were collected to explore the relationship between people’s attitudes toward COVID-19 measures and policy strictness. We conducted online surveys in July 2020 and May 2021 with 131 respectively 130 participants from Switzerland and Germany. Participants responded on visual analogue scales to 33 respectively 25 questions. Further data on participants’ information sources, health status, and demographics were collected. The data contribute to understanding psychological and behavioural reactions to COVID-19 policies and may help to further examine the pandemic policy management. The dataset, coding, and variables can be found online on PsychArchives (https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12899). The study was preregistered on OSF (https://osf.io/uw8mh/).

Keywords

• covid-19
• corona policies
• public attitude
• compliance
• binational comparison
• time-related development