Demographic and Motivational Survey on Mask-Wearing After COVID-19 Mandates

445 participants responded to a survey assessing motivational states and fear related to mask-wearing after the removal of COVID-19 mandates. The dataset, authored by Jonas Tögel and shared on figshare, includes measures of fear of COVID-19, beliefs about mask effectiveness and side effects, and different types of internal regulation. It was last updated on May 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between fear and voluntary health behavior based on survey responses.
• Analyzing the depth of internalization across introjected, identified, integrated, and intrinsic regulation types.
• Investigating the independent effect of fear on behavior, separate from rational beliefs about effectiveness and side effects.

Strengths

• Dataset includes responses from 445 participants.
• Analysis quantified a 2.5-fold increase in odds of mask-wearing per one-point increase in fear.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Survey responses collected following the end of a mask mandate.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 17:42:11; freshness should be verified.