Role of personality, health beliefs and fear of COVID-19 in engagement of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors among Egyptians during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Multivariate analysis of factors associated with low social distancing practice behavior of the studied patients

	B	S.E	Wald	Sig	OR	95% CI
Age class	0.086	0.167	0.262	0.609	1.089	0.785	1.512
Female sex	− 0.829	0.202	16.832	< 0.001**	0.437	0.294	0.649
Married	− 0.379	0.195	3.790	0.052 NS	0.684	0.467	1.003
Urban residence	0.308	0.194	2.530	0.112 NS	1.361	0.931	1.988
Working in medical field	− 0.655	0.160	16.726	< 0.001*	0.519	0.379	0.711
Before university education levels	1.761	0.807	4.762	0.029*	5.816	1.196	28.271
High fear	− 0.454	0.158	8.222	0.004*	0.635	0.465	0.866
Perceived Susceptibility	0.141	0.150	0.882	0.348 NS	1.152	0.858	1.546
Perceived severity	− 0.106	0.158	0.453	0.501 NS	0.899	0.660	1.225
Hand hygiene perceived benefits	− 0.037	0.173	0.047	0.828 NS	0.963	0.687	1.351
Social distance perceived benefits	− 0.498	0.172	8.350	0.004*	0.607	0.433	0.852
Perceived barriers for hand hygiene	0.377	0.156	5.847	0.016*	1.458	1.074	1.979
Perceived barriers for social distance	0.435	0.153	8.136	0.004*	1.545	1.146	2.084
High self efficacy	− 0.516	0.151	11.676	0.001*	0.597	0.444	0.803
Extraversion	0.141	0.167	0.717	0.397 NS	1.151	0.831	1.596
Neuroticism	− 0.081	0.167	0.237	0.626 NS	0.922	0.665	1.279
Agreeableness	− 0.182	0.593	0.095	0.758 NS	0.833	0.261	2.664
Openness	− 0.061	0.243	0.064	0.800 NS	0.940	0.584	1.513
Conscientiousness	− 0.375	0.271	1.924	0.165 NS	0.687	0.404	1.168