A recent paper by Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick and Prof. Dr. Jonas Rees - as part of the international PsyCorona Team - was published in the journal Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

In this paper named "Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories' predictions in the context of COVID-19: Evidence across countries and over time", Prof. Dr. Andreas Zick and Prof. Dr. Jonas Rees drew on health behavior theories to predict health-protective (coping-specific) responses and hope (coping non-specific response) from health-related cognitions (vulnerability, severity, self-assessed knowledge, efficacy). Thus, extending this model, they proposed orientation to internal (problem-focused coping) and external (country capability) coping resources as antecedents of health protection and hope; health-related cognitions were assumed as mediators of this link.

Here you can find the full open access text.