Geert Hofstede'nin kültürel boyutları dünya çapındaki pandemi istatistikleriyle ilişkili mi?

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, which started in China in 2019 and was seen in many parts of the world in a short time, has affected individuals and communities with quarantine and public health regimes. Like every event that has taken place at the global level, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected societies differently, and societies have different attitudes and reactions to the pandemic. Many historical, political, and economic factors can influence societies' attitudes and behaviors toward events. Culture is important, perhaps the most important variable in the context of the lives of societies and individuals, their attitudes toward social developments, and their behavior. The dimensions of culture, theorized by Geert Hofstede, compare societies in five dimensions, provide information about the lives of societies, and help predict possible behavior. This study examines the relationship between the statistics of total cases, total deaths, new cases, new deaths, total cases per 100,000 people, total deaths per 100,000 people, new cases per 100,000 people and new deaths per 100,000 people from the pandemic statistics published continuously during the COVID-19 pandemic and the cultural dimensions determined by Hofstede. For this purpose, pandemic statistics of the 100 countries with the highest number of cases on 7 dates during the COVID-19 pandemic were taken as a sample and analyzed with Hofstede's culture dimension scores. At the end of the study, it was revealed that there was a significant inverse correlation between the power range and long-term orientation scores of the countries and the COVID-19 statistics. In contrast, individuality and uncertainty avoidance scores correlated significantly with COVID-19 statistics. The findings related with high uncertainty avoidance may be explained by Extended Parallel Process Model. No significant correlation was found between countries' masculinity scores and COVID-19 scores. As a result of the study, it was revealed that there were significant relationships between the cultural dimension scores of the countries and the COVID-19 statistics.