Agreement with COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Has Poor Temporal Stability
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11140%2F24%3A10487255" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11140/24:10487255 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/49777513:23420/24:43973412
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=XACfm_NezR" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=XACfm_NezR</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2024.260" target="_blank" >10.1017/dmp.2024.260</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Agreement with COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Has Poor Temporal Stability
Original language description
Low temporal stability may complicate the interpretation of survey measures of conspiracy theories (CTs). Current study examines the stability of endorsement of CTs on a popular set of items addressing COVID-19-related CTs. An online survey tapping two CTs about COVID-19 was administered to 179 students of general medicine. The same items were presented twice in March 2022 and once in May 2022. The mean endorsement of the CTs did not differ between March and May. The correlation between answers provided in March and May was low (.5 < r < .7). Most of those reporting agreement with CTs in March reported disagreement in May. Conspiracy believers' responses did not change between two measurements in March but were different in May, suggesting that the low temporal stability was due to situational factors rather than erroneous or random answers. Poor temporal stability of responses endorsing CTs may problematize interpretation of survey data. Respondents' endorsement of CTs may be affected by situational factors, inflating agreement with CTs, and correlations with other survey-based measures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
ISSN
1935-7893
e-ISSN
1938-744X
Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
3
Pages from-to
e231
UT code for WoS article
001345718600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85208113713