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Prior research points to health behaviors being impacted by neighborhood and national social relations, social identification, confidence in government and political orientation. This research, though, is generally piecemeal (or specific), tends to be cross\u2010sectional, and is usually not oriented to pandemics. These issues are addressed in the current research. A two\u2010wave study with a representative sample of Australians (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic><jats:sub>Wave 1<\/jats:sub>\u00a0=\u00a03028) gathered during COVID\u201019 examined sociopolitical factors at the local and national level as predictors of health behaviors one month later. Four models were tested. These encapsulated geographic levels (local or national) and two health behaviors (hand hygiene or physical distance). In the three of the four models, social identification was a significant predictor of health behavior, while controlling for sociodemographic and individual\u2010level measures. There were more mixed results for social relations and confidence in government. There is evidence that to better promote health behaviors sociopolitical factors need to be more prominent in public policy and health behavior models.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:label\/><jats:p><jats:boxed-text content-type=\"box\" position=\"anchor\"><jats:caption><jats:title>Highlights<\/jats:title><\/jats:caption><jats:p><jats:list list-type=\"bullet\"><jats:list-item><jats:p>The goal of this study is to examine how sociopolitical factors impact physical distance and hand hygiene during the Australian COVID\u201019 pandemic.<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item><jats:list-item><jats:p>Based on social cohesion literature and the social identity approach, we expected three social cohesion dimensions (social identification, confidence in government and social relations) to predict greater health behaviors one month later. Political orientation was also expected to predict health behaviors.<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item><jats:list-item><jats:p>The results show that social identification consistently predicts health behaviors, with weaker evidence for political orientation and confidence in the government, and mixed evidence for social relations.<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item><jats:list-item><jats:p>This research highlights the importance of considering and strengthening the sociopolitical context in our response to pandemics.<\/jats:p><\/jats:list-item><\/jats:list><\/jats:p><\/jats:boxed-text><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/pops.12772","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,8]],"date-time":"2021-07-08T06:14:55Z","timestamp":1625724895000},"page":"845-861","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Sociopolitical Predictors of Physical Distancing and Hand Hygiene During the COVID\u201019 Pandemic"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"42","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2714-5889","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diana","family":"C\u00e1rdenas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nima","family":"Orazani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mark","family":"Stevens","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tegan","family":"Cruwys","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Platow","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Zekulin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2282-7290","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Katherine J.","family":"Reynolds","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_3_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/12294659.2013.10805259"},{"key":"e_1_2_3_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0749-5978(91)90020-T"},{"key":"e_1_2_3_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/16549716.2019.1662682"},{"key":"e_1_2_3_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/0165025414542713"},{"key":"e_1_2_3_6_1","series-title":"The Health Psychology Reader","volume-title":"Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory","author":"Bandura A.","year":"1986"},{"key":"e_1_2_3_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11205-016-1470-7"},{"key":"e_1_2_3_8_1","first-page":"45","volume-title":"Health behavior and health education: Theory, research, and practice","author":"Champion V. 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