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What factors underlie attitudes regarding protective mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Overview of attention for article published in Personality & Individual Differences, May 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (59th percentile)

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11 X users
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1 Facebook page
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5 Redditors

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Article details
Title
What factors underlie attitudes regarding protective mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Published in
Personality & Individual Differences, May 2021
DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111038
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 72 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 11%
Lecturer 4 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 6%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Researcher 3 4%
Other 11 15%
Unknown 39 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 14%
Psychology 6 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 6%
Linguistics 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 11 15%
Unknown 37 51%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2026.
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#5,940,522
of 34,139,555 outputs
Outputs from Personality & Individual Differences
#2,662
of 7,457 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#99,921
of 489,256 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality & Individual Differences
#38
of 93 outputs
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