*2.6. Moral Values*

Moral values involve an individual's sense of obligations and responsibility towards others. To illustrate, during the outbreak of a pandemic, taking care of others by helping them adopt prevention measures defines the moral values of individuals. Similarly, moral values also included an individual's cooperation with others to facilitate them get through difficult times. Concerning society's morality, a study was carried out to analyze the variations in tobacco usage and preventive measures taken by taking qualitative data from teachers of 12 schools of Maharashtra and Bihar [61]. The results discovered that tobacco usage was at a higher rate in Bihar as compared to Maharashtra as the moral norms strongly encouraged tobacco usage in Bihar. Besides, efficient functional resolutions to the difficulties between-group disagreements urged various ethical good fortune that fairly concerned Evo liberals, and not any of those social modernizations needed intervening at the stage of personal ethical capabilities. There were almost certainly believable worldwide settlements that might resolve the difficulties of anthropogenic atmospheric modification and worldwide scarcity [62]. In another research, Edmonson et al. [63] studied that eighty

percent of nurses faced harassment in hospitals, and twenty-one percent of the turnover rate was also caused by bullying. There were many reasons involved, like difference in regions, gender, power, behavioral patterns, etc. The individuals experienced poor health and mental and physical stress in response to harassment. Prestia [64] examined the challenges faced by nurses during the international COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and found their pivotal role in keeping with the moral obligations to take care of patients. In the sense of contextual behaviors, Borges et al. [65] stated that the COVID-19 pandemic brought into light many moral dilemmas. Akram [66] reported that the U.S. healthcare system adopted utilitarian policies to deal with moral injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Liang et al. [67] studied and revealed respondents' depressive behaviors and moral collapse from China's Hubei province during the pandemic outbreak. Finally, Donnarumma and Pezzulo [68] figured out that moral collapse observed for the Italian citizens from a high outbreak region (Milan) to low outbreak regions (southern Italy) caused severe outbreak in those regions. It means moral decisions were significantly linked with the pandemic prevention measures' adoption during the outbreak. Based on the abovementioned works, the following association is hypothesized:

**Hypothesis 6.** *Moral values are likely to have a positive association with a willingness to adopt pandemic prevention.*
