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

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F23%3A00579757" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/23:00579757 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/23:00132759

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-023-00046-5" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-023-00046-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00046-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s44271-023-00046-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Communications Psychology

ISSN

2731-9121

e-ISSN

2731-9121

Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

prosinec

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

43

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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