Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour

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Karakulak, A. - Tepe, B. - Dimitrova, R. - Abdelrahman, M. - Akaliyski, P. - Alaseel, R. - Alkamali, Y.A. - Amin, A. - Aguinaga, D.A.L. - Andres, A. - Aruta, J.J.B.R. - Assiotis, M. - Avanesyan, H.M. - Ayub, N. - Bacikova-Sleskova, M. - Baikanova, R. - Bakkar, B. - Bartoluci, S. - Benitez, D. - Bodnar, I. - Bolatov, A. - Borchet, J. - Bosnar, K. - Broche-Pérez, Y. - Buzea, C. - Klicperová-Baker, Martina - Poláčková Šolcová, Iva … celkem 131 autorů
Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour.
Communications Psychology. Roč. 1, prosinec (2023), č. článku 43. E-ISSN 2731-9121
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LX22NPO5101
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081740
Klíčová slova: human behaviour * infectious diseases * COVID-19 pandemic
Obor OECD: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-023-00046-5

With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government. Results suggest that the association between fear of disease and support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours was strongest when trust in the government was weak (both at individual- and country-level). Conversely, the association with empathic prosocial concern was strongest when trust in the government was high, but this moderation was only found at individual-level scores of governmental trust. We discuss how motivations may be shaped by socio-cultural context, and outline how findings may contribute to a better understanding of collective action during global crises.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0348560