All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F25%3A00140656" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/25:00140656 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.70003" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.70003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pops.70003" target="_blank" >10.1111/pops.70003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
All you'll feel is doom and gloom: Multiple perspectives on the associations between economic anxiety and conspiracy beliefs
Original language description
The article investigates whether and how adherence to conspiracy beliefs (CBs) about COVID- 19 pandemic might be associated with (and cause) economic anxiety over various cultural settings and time. First, we examined the extent to which CBs predicted economic anxiety using the European Social Survey data, round 10, from 17 countries (Study 1). Second, using data from a balanced (in terms of age, gender, education, and region) Slovak sample, we employed a cross- lagged panel analysis to determine the direction of the association between adherence to CBs and economic anxiety (Study 2). Study 1 revealed that adherence to CBs was significantly associated with higher levels of economic anxiety across cultural contexts. Study 2 compellingly showed that adherence to CBs increased the sense of economic anxiety over time, whereas the reverse causal path from economic anxiety to CBs was consistently nonsignificant. This work provides evidence that adherence to CBs may be increasingly associated with adverse subjective appraisals of economic realities. We discuss how our results can contribute to the understanding that curbing adherence to CBs could also alleviate the sense of economic anxiety. Finally, we recommend a research agenda to better understand the psychological boundary mechanisms accounting for these effects.
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
50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Political Psychology
ISSN
0162-895X
e-ISSN
1467-9221
Volume of the periodical
46
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1638-1653
UT code for WoS article
001467301700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85219690068