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Karakulak, Arzu; Tepe, Beyza; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Abdelrahman, Mohamed; Akaliyski, Plamen; Alaseel, Rana; Alkamali, Yousuf Abdulqader; Amin, Azzam; Lizarzaburu Aguinaga, Danny A.; Andres, Andrii; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Assiotis, Marios; Avanesyan, Hrant; Ayub, Norzihan; Bacikova-Sleskova, Maria; Baikanova, Raushan; Bakkar, Batoul; Bartoluci, Sunčica; Benitez, David; Bodnar, Ivanna; Bolatov, Aidos; Borchet, Judyta; Bosnar, Ksenija; Broche-Pérez, Yunier; [...]

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

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Trust in government moderates the association between fear of COVID-19 as well as empathic concern and preventive behaviour
  • Contributor: Karakulak, Arzu; Tepe, Beyza; Dimitrova, Radosveta; Abdelrahman, Mohamed; Akaliyski, Plamen; Alaseel, Rana; Alkamali, Yousuf Abdulqader; Amin, Azzam; Lizarzaburu Aguinaga, Danny A.; Andres, Andrii; Aruta, John Jamir Benzon R.; Assiotis, Marios; Avanesyan, Hrant; Ayub, Norzihan; Bacikova-Sleskova, Maria; Baikanova, Raushan; Bakkar, Batoul; Bartoluci, Sunčica; Benitez, David; Bodnar, Ivanna; Bolatov, Aidos; Borchet, Judyta; Bosnar, Ksenija; Broche-Pérez, Yunier; [...]
  • imprint: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023
  • Published in: Communications Psychology
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1038/s44271-023-00046-5
  • ISSN: 2731-9121
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access