摘要
This chapter aims to investigate how people’s experiences with quarantine affect their tendency to break the rules while in quarantine, since quarantine is one of the most extreme ways to keep everyone safe in a pandemic. To investigate intentions of noncompliance with quarantine regulations, a longitudinal study from March to May 2020 was conducted. With an ordinal logistic regression model, this chapter explained people’s desire to leave the designated quarantine place during the quarantine. Moreover, people’s textual feedback on the quarantine experience was also compared. The results indicated that people’s inclination to leave the quarantine place varied based on demographic characteristics, negative emotions, social support, social responsibility, and their attitude toward the government’s related information. In the text responses, there were mixed feelings of gratitude, loneliness, and fear of stigmatization about their quarantine experience. This chapter highlights the impact of the quarantine experience so as to improve compliance and maintain quarantined people’s well-being. This chapter illustrates how individuals feel and the difficulties they confront when quarantined. The findings also aid governments in devising more effective methods to combat the epidemic by providing them with an empirical and dynamic working foundation.